PROFILE
1972年生まれ 米国リオ・グランデ大学芸術学部アート専攻 中退
幼少期から絵を描くことを愛し、芸術を志す。
全ての芸術が建築に集約される、とする「バウハウス」の思想に感銘を受け、建築デザイナーとしてキャリアをスタートさせ、無数の店舗・住宅設計をこなす。
とりわけミッドセンチュリー（1940年代〜1960年代の建築・家具・アート）に造詣が深く、建築、インテリアや家具、照明、音楽やファッションに至るまでその知識は多岐にわたる。
建築に興味が深まるほど、その内装に飾るアートの重要性に気づき、現代の建築に見合う現代アートが少ないことも鑑み、2008年より、かねてからの念願であった現代アート制作に専念、作品を発表する。
2009年度第34回國美芸術展東京都知事賞（石原慎太郎賞）・2009年度同展覧会名誉総裁特別賞（森喜朗）を受賞。ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2017（2017年1月12日 - 1月15日開催）に参加。また、スイスのプライベートバンクの日本法人であるロンバーオディエ信託株式会社に、2014年から2016年まで作品を常設展示していた。
現在に至るまで年3回の新作個展を実施。年間100点前後の新作を創作し続けている。
彼のアートは無駄を極力排除した（マイナスの美）作風であり、彼独自の深層心理や宇宙、森羅万象をテーマにしている。
とりわけ本質的には日本のアートであることに固執する。彼曰く「今の日本人はちょんまげなどしていないけれども、日本人の心はもっている。そういうアートを描きたい」。
茶の精神にも深い影響を受けている。
茶室に続く露地もあえて人の手で落ち葉を散らすなど自然の流れを乱さない日本人の心が存在しており、その美意識への尊敬から描く直線、真円は定規を使わずフリーハンドで描くことにこだわっている。
キャンバスをあえて繋いでいく作風は豊臣秀吉が折りたたんで持ち運びを可能にした茶室を例にする日本の繋ぎ合わせる文化を継承している。
Takao Abe
Born in 1972. U.S. University of Rio Grande Art major
He has loved drawing and painting since his childhood and aimed for becoming an artist.
As he was deeply impressed by the notion of BAUHAUS, which persists that all the forms of art are to be aggregated into architecture, he started his career as an architectural designer and has created hundreds of shops, clinics, and houses and buildings.
Midcentury style has especially drawn his professional/artistic attention. He has built an extensive knowledge of it (including architecture, interior design, furniture, lighting, music, and even fashion) throughout his architectural career.
In 2008, he started creating modern art and publishing his works. Based on his experiences in the field of architecture, he has come to notice that the artworks placed in modern-style rooms are the vital factor for the architecture itself.
In 2009, he won 34th Kokubi Art Prize of the governor of Tokyo and 34th
Kokubi Art Prize of the Honorary President. In 2017, he participated in ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2017. From 2014 to 2016, his works were exhibited at the Tokyo office of Lombard Odier, Swiss private bank.
Now he creates more than 100 works a year and publishes them at the solo exhibitions 3 times a year.
“The beauty of minus, substraction” eliminating an unnecessary decoration is the essential element of Takao Abe’s artworks. He also depicts his original ideas of universe, nature, and mind.
Above of all, he persists in his roots, Japan.
He says “No one is wearing Chonmage hair style (Samurai warrior’s hair style) anymore, but every single Japanese still has a certain type of mindset deep inside. I like to draw their spiritual nature in my paintings.”
Another authentic Japanese value, “the spirit of tea”, also has kept inspiring him. Japanese cherish the beauty of nature and take it as it is. For example, they deliberately scatter the fallen leaves on the path all the way through to a tea ceremony room after they sweep and clean it without any dusts. They think it is more likely to be a state of nature than the clean path without any fallen leaves.
His respect to the Japanese beauty leads to his way of drawing lines and circles, all by his hands without rulers.
His originated style of diptyque, triptych, and multiple pieces of canvas connected with staplers, is an homage paid to Japanese folding portable artworks, for example, Hideyoshi Toyotomi’s portable tearoom set.
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Takao Abe Profile
Tokyo Japan
Education
Attended
1991 -1995 Rio Grande University Art major Ohio U.S.A
Shows
2024- One Man Show TAKAO A GALLERY TOKYO&NAGOYA
2024 Opened and Owned TAKAO A GALLERY TOKYO
2017-2024 One Man Show Fuji GALLERY Yokohama, Yokohama Kanagawa
2017-2024 One Man Show Fuji GALLERY Nagoya, Nagoya Aichi pre
Group Show ART STAGE SINGAPORE 2017, Singapore
2016 Group Show 4th ART Foundation JADIF Setagaya Museum, Tokyo (plan to Aug 2nd)
One Man Show Fuji GALLERY Nagoya, Nagoya Aichi pre
2015 Group Show 3rd ART Foundation JADIF, Setagaya Museum Tokyo
2015 One Man Show Fuji GALLERY Nagoya, Nagoya Aichi pre
Spring Show ART Foundation JADIF, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo
2014 Group Show 2nd ART Foundation JADIF, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo
One Man Show Lombard Odier Trust (Japan) Limited, Tokyo
2013 Group Show 1st Art Foundation JADIF, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo
One Man Show Fuji GALLERY, Tokyo
2012 One Man Show Ginza Grace, Gallery Tokyo
One Man Show Fuji GALLERY, Tokyo
2011 One Man Show Ginza Gallery Noah, Tokyo
2010 Two Men Show Ginza Gallery Agape, Tokyo
Selected Awards:
2009 the Prize of the governor of Tokyo, 34th Exhibition of International Arts Association