Iba Hirohito
伊庭 広人
statement
When I feel alive, I can easily visualize the composition.
“Life” is reflected in the picture and “the act of painting” asks its own questions.
A new era dawns.
This era and daily life combine to become art. My spiritual state comes face to face with this time.
My work is not something disposable, a fad nor is it just for entertainment. It is something which leaves its mark in time.
For the rest of my life I am dedicated to the expression of truth, virtue and beauty through my work.
Our time floats dangerously by.
If we tread too tentatively through life, we cannot but feel a sense of crisis with each passing day. However, it is in this state that art is born and the spirit formed. It is full of what should be appreciated and the beauty which should be loved.
The rest is left to the heavens and therein lies the freedom to achieve a calmness of mind. There is neither uneasiness nor regret nor impatience, all are accepted. There is the freedom to continue one’s journey with a sense stillness and readiness.
Difficulty can be transformed into energy and so I am able to choose to laugh at and dive into that uncertainty. Light always shows us the way.
My instinct drives me to paint and as the image and form appear, I start asking what the essence of this painting is and the desire to answer this question provides the impulse to continue to paint.
My ambition is that my work will stand the test of time and will transcend borders to become a source of courage, hope and inspiration to all those who are dedicated to society.
biography
ＩＢＡ Hｉｒｏｈｉｔｏ （伊庭 広人）
Born 1968 in Shiga,Japan (Lives and works)
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 Nagai art gallery/Tokyo (Ginza)
2008 Omi-hachiman municipal tile museum/Shiga
2007 Art Toyama of SPACE/Kyoto
2006 Shinseidou/Tokyo (Aoyama)
2004 The Kiyosu city Haruhi art museum / Aichi
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015 The forest art museum jackpot exhibition prize winner exhibition which is ('02)
T Ueno for 2015 years the 32nd time (a forest art museum in Ueno/Tokyo)
2005 New fine-arts selection exhibition Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/Kyoto
he Kyoto artistic handicraft new selection exhibition Eye exhibition of Museum of Kyoto / Kyoto
Riyouyounome exhibition (the Nihonbashi MITSUKOSHI head office / Tokyo, a Tanabe municipal art museum / Wakayama, the Mihara region plaza / Hiroshima, the Hachinohe art museum / Aomori, the Kawaguchiko art museum / Yamanashi)
collections
Komeri Co. Ltd.
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art
Ueno Royal Museum
Omihachiman city
Selected Awards and prize
2017 Komeri prize Seturiyoushiya Florence prize exhibition (a Seturiyoushiya art museum/Niigata)
Finalist Award [Art Olympia2017] (`15 Finalist Award) (Toshima ward office/Tokyo)
2016 Mr. A, prize BIWAKO jackpot exhibition (Shiga prefectural art museum/Shiga)
2014 Prize-for-an-excellent-work NIPPON BROADCASTING SYSTEM prize [The Ueno Royal Museum grand-prix]
(Ueno Royal Museum/Tokyo)
2012 Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. prize [Kyoto Biennale of arts and crafts of fine arts] (Ky oto cultural museum/ Kyoto)
Prize for an excellent work [Japanese pictures 2012] (The Nagai art gallery / Tokyo)
2011 SUDA prize Kyoto exhibition (`03 Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art prize) (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art/Kyoto)
2010 KUMANICHI grand prize[ Biennial KUMAMOTO FINAL] ( Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art/Kumamoto )
2009 CHUUNICHI grand-prix[ HOKURIKU CHUUNITI fine-arts exhibition] (The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/Ishikawa)
2005 Fine work[ SAKAIDE Art grand prize] (Below fine work `02`04. `03 Excellent work prize.) (an art museum of Sakaide-shi people/Kagawa)
2004 Jackpot [SHINSEIDOU exhibition] (Shinseidou art gallery /Tokyo)
2000 Prize for an excellent work [The Kyoto artistic handicraft exhibition] (Museum of Kyoto/Kyoto)
Education
1993 Department graduation of the Kyoto Seika University fine-arts faculty oil painting