Tenki Hiramatsu. Infinite cigarette break

The exhibition provides an overview of the
current work of the Japanese artist Tenki
Hiramatsu (*1986). Situated between figuration
figuration and abstraction, his painting is characterized by a humorous
by a humorous and even grotesque pictorial language.
grotesque. The partly comic-like motifs create
create their own reality of high narrative density.
high narrative density. The painter continued from 2016
to 2019 his artistic studies at the
Academy of Arts Karlsruhe under the professors
Marcel van Eeden and Daniel Roth, after he had already completed
already completed BA studies in Japan at the Nihon
University, College of Art, in Tokyo.
In 2022 he was awarded the Art Prize of the Werner Stober
Foundation. This award includes a financial
5,000 and an exhibition project at the Städtische Galerie
exhibition project at the Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe
is associated with this award. The selection for this scholarship was made
the college of professors at the State Academy of Fine Arts
Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe.
The prize is aimed exclusively at
Graduates of the Academy