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EVENT DESCRIPTION
After holding solo exhibitions at Touch Gallery in 2020 and 2021, Yasuhito Kawasaki became a global sensation, hosting over 30 exhibitions worldwide. Four years later, Kawasaki returns to Touch Gallery with a solo exhibition, Blue Blue Bear, running from June 4 to June 28, 2025.
This exhibition invites you to explore Yasuhito Kawasaki’s artistic world, filled with childlike innocence and tender emotions, and to discover the “imaginary friends” embodied through ceramics and paintings.
The recurring figures of bears, children, and various animals in Kawasaki’s works are not merely adorable forms but profound projections of his “inner child,” his “former self,” and an unyielding sense of innocence. These figures, like imaginary companions summoned through years of creative exploration, quietly accompany him and every soul that gazes upon them. They are the most faithful companions of the artist’s inner world.
Notably, the iconic Blue Bear symbolizes the artist’s unwavering pursuit of purity. It can also be seen as the embodiment of an idealized imaginary friend—calm, reliable, with a slightly melancholic tenderness, guarding an inner landscape untouched by the mundane world.
Through Kawasaki’s masterful touch, the friends in his paintings are imbued with life and emotional warmth. His works invite us to temporarily shed our adult exteriors and listen to the voice within, to recognize the “imaginary friends” perhaps long forgotten, yet still shining in the corners of our memories. They remind us that even in the loneliest moments, we are never truly alone; somewhere deep within, a faithful companion awaits our acknowledgment.
This exhibition will feature a series of carefully selected recent works by Yasuhito Kawasaki, including his signature sculptures and paintings. Touch Gallery warmly invites media friends and art enthusiasts to visit during the exhibition period and step into Kawasaki’s imaginative realm to meet these lovable and heartfelt “imaginary friends.”
