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Selected
Exhibition
Natsuo Ikegami + Hiroshi Matsumoto Exhibition at NOMAyado Nov. 11 - Dec 10 2023
https://nomayado.jimdofree.com/
Opening exhibition "Soma Fujito and Hiroshi Matsumoto"
7/16/2022 - 9/4/2022
Fine Port Gallery, 24-96
Ko Tonosho Shozu Kagawa Japan
0879-62-2121
https://www.instagram.com/fineportgallery/
Group Exhibition “R”
4/3/2019 - 4/7/2019 wedge, Kawanishi-city Hyogo, Japan
Solo Show "Hiroshi Matsumoto Abstract Oil Painting ģiW"
11/03/2017 - 12/28/2017 Michi no Eki Osaka Castle Remained Stone Memorial Park, Kagawa, Japan
Solo Show "Hiroshi Matsumoto"
06/27/2017 - 07/22/2017 Olive-no-Shima Post Office, Kagawa, Japan
Map
Group exhibition "10,10" MOSTRA DI ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
10/10/2015 - 11/07/2015 Tolentino, Italy
http://www.vanitynews.it/eventi-fiere/1010-mostra-di-arte-contemporanea/
http://www.viveremacerata.it/index.php?page=articolo&articolo_id=557262
Group Exhibition Presentazioni del libro e mostra "Seminario di autocoscienza estetica"
12/13/2014 - 12/21/2014 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
Group exhibition "Pour le plaisir"
12/06/2014 - 01/17/2015 Galerie Ephémère Thuin, Belgium
https://www.facebook.com/events/355071978007678/
Solo Show "NOV.15 2014"
11/15/2014 - 11/22/2014 Galleria Vista, Roma, Italy
Brochure / Article
Group Exhibition
"Tempo, temporale, temporalismo"
03/08/2014 - 03/23/2014 Palazzo
Sangallo, Tolentino, Italy
http://youtu.be/Y0TsRcFS26o
Group Exhibition
"Guardando avanti / LOOKING FORWARD"
12/07/2013 - 12/15/2013 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
Group Exhibition "Little Big Web"
11/16/2013 - 01/20/2014 Galerie Ephémère Thuin, Belgium
https://www.facebook.com/events/212013905639922/
http://www.flickr.com/groups/littlebigweb/
Group Exhibition "One Mind and One
Heart"
03/09/2013 - 03/21/2013 Castel
dellfOvo, Napoli, Italy
Group Exhibition "Beyond the spot"
02/02/2013 - 03/17/2013 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
Duo Exhibition "OUR HOUSE" Hiroshi
Matsumoto x Yoshimi Kamimoto
11/25/2012 - 12/01/2012 Gallery NOMA,
Hyogo, Japan
NOMA Gallery & Shop
"NOMAMISE AUTUMN"
9/28/2012 - 9/30/2012 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
NOMA Gallery & Shop
"NOMAMISE SUMMER"
7/6/2012 - 7/8/2012 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
NOMA Gallery & Shop
"NOMAMISE SPRING"
3/30/2012 - 4/1/2012 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
NOMA Gallery & Shop 6
"NOMAMISE"
12/16/2011 - 12/18/2011 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
Group Exhibition "Japan
Live"
12/03/2011 - 12/18/2011 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
NOMA
Gallery & Shop 5
"NOMAMISE Autumn"
09/17/2011 - 09/19/2011 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
New show of Three
Ravens Gallery
08/05/2009 - 08/07/2011 Edison, WA, U.S.
NOMA Gallery & Shop 4
"NOMAMISE"
06/17/2011 - 06/19/2011 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
Group Exhibition
"Background noise -
Rumore di fondo"
05/07/2011 - 05/22/201 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
Group Exhibition "HEARTBEAT"
04/09/2011 - 04/22/2011 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
CONTEMPORARY
ART EXHIBITION 2011 in Islamabad
'United - in the Age of Dialogue' RASTAY
04/05/2011 - 04/08/2011 National Art Gallery, Islamabad, Pakistan
NOMA
Gallery & Shop 3
"NOMAMISE"
03/18/2011 - 03/20/2011 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
Group
Exhibition "Thumbhole"
12/16/2010 - 12/28/2010 Gallery Edel , Hyogo, Japan
NOMA Gallery & Shop 2 "NOMAMISE"
12/17/2010 - 12/19/2010 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
NOMA Gallery & Shop 1 "NOMAMISE"
10/02/2010 - 10/03/2010 Gallery NOMA, Hyogo, Japan
Group
Exhibition "Thumbhole"
07/22/2010 - 08/03/201 Gallery Edel , Hyogo, Japan
Duo Exhibition "Hiroshi
Matsumoto x Natsuo Ikegami"
06/13/2010 - 06/19/2010 -Opening Special exhibition- Gallery NOMA,
Hyogo, Japan
Group
Exhibition "ASIAN OVERVIEW 2010"
01/16/2009 - 01/31/2010 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy
Group
Exhibition "BEAUTIFUL ELSEWHERE" International exhibition of
contemporary art
11/23/2009 - 12/03/2009 Universita' degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"
Villa Doria D'Angri Via Petrarca, 80, Napoli ,Italy
Preview of Three
Ravens Gallery
10/30/2009 - 11/01/2009 Ardmore, PA, U.S.
Group
Exhibition "ASIAN OVERVIEW ROME 2009" Exhibition of artists
from Italy and Far East
06/10/2009 - 06/24/2009 Villa De Santis Via Casilina corner Via
Gordiani, Rome, Italy
Group Exhibition "Asian collection"
02/14/2009 - 02/28/2009 Il Ramo d'Oro, Napoli, Italy, Napoli, Italy
Group Exhibition Sentieri
del pensiero /
Paths of thought"(2 abstract works)
11/07/2008 - 11/16/2008 Sala delle terrazze, Castel dell'Ovo, Napoli,
Italy
organizedby Il Ramo d'Oro
Solo Show "Hiroshi Matsumoto"
02/25/2006 - 03/07/2006 Gallery Okumura, Shizuoka
Solo Show "Hiroshi
Matsumoto"
02/25/2006 - 03/05/2006 Sun Art, Shizuoka
Solo Show "Hiroshi
Matsumoto"
12/03/2005 - 12/18/2005 Seo
Cornici Kuwana-City, Mie
Solo Show "Hiroshi Matsumoto"
06/17/2005 - 06/26/2005 Gallery Kawanaka, Miyazaki
Duo Exhibition "Emi
Hiramatsu+Hiroshi Matsumoto"
05/12/2005 - 05/31/2005 Pushpin Gallery, Shizuoka
Baekwoon Art Festival
10/09/2004 - 10/11/2004 Uiwang-City. Korea
Mixed Exhibition "Five Portions
09/12/2004 - 09/30/2004 gallery tohrei, Osaka
Mixed Exhibition "Four Portions "
04/07/2003 - 04/12/2003 GALLERY NAW, Osaka
Solo Show "Recollections"
10/02/2002 - 10/27/2002 GALLERY Tomoe, Hyogo
Mixed Exhibition "Q+"
May, 2001 Gendai Zaro, Osaka
Solo Show "Time passes slowly"
Oct, 1999 GALLERY Tomoe, Hyogo
Thoughts for my solo show in Roma 2014
Solo Show "NOV.15 2014" at Galleria Vista, Roma Via Ostilia, 41, Italy
November 15 2014 - November 22 2014
Galleria Vista
Roma Via Ostilia, 41
Italy
...Il
tempo fugge nonché sfugge a qualsiasi definizione--- (Margherita Hack)
La questione di cosa sia il fluire del tempo viene sottolineata dai
filosofi dalla seconda metà del XIX, ma si è accentuata con la fisica
moderna. Questa descrive formule che dicono del cambiamento delle cose
in funzione della variabile gtempoh. Il vero problema è chiedersi cosa
sia il presente - possiamo affermare che le uniche cose che esistono
ora e qui sono quelle del presente: il passato non esiste, neanche il
futuro. La fisica moderna rende ancora più intrigante la questione, la
teoria della relatività di Einstein ha mostrato che la nozione di
presente è addirittura mal definita: chiedersi se una cosa avviene
proprio ora, ha significato solo per cose vicine nello spazio; il
presente, come lfinsieme degli eventi che accadono in questo momento
nell'universo è solo una limitatezza delle nostre percezioni. In altre
parole il presente, come lo concepiamo di solito, non esiste. Osservare
il tempo, non g iudicarlo ma a ssorbirlo intimamente fino a non dare
più importanza al s uo scorrere. Hiroshi Matsumoto non t enta una
descrizione n é una trascrizione del tempo, non vuole elaborare teorie
scientifiche o filosofiche; con forza porta i l fruitore a d una s
emplice operazione: o sservare senza pregiudizi, s enza formare teorie,
assorbire il suo corso s enza prendere appunti; lasciarsi andare ed
ascoltare il suo suono pulsante, accettare il suo scorrere e gioire di
questo.
Massimo Nicotra
...Time flies and escapes from any definition - (Margherita Hack)
The problem of the flow of time was emphasized by philosophers of the
second half of t he n ineteenth century; however, it was s tudied i n
greater depth by modern Physics. The l atter provides u s with f
ormulas t hat s how how things change i n function of the variable
"time". The real question is asking what the present is - we can affirm
that only things that exist here and now are part of the present.
Neither the past nor the future do exist. Modern Physics makes t he
question even m ore intriguing. E insteinfs Theory of Relativity shows
us that even the concept of the present is not well-defined: to ask if
s omething happens right now makes s ense only for things t hat a re
nearby in space; the present, conceived as the set of all events
happening right now in the universe is only a limitation of our
perception. In other words, t he present as we conceive it does not
exist. One must observe time, not judge it but absorb it intimately
until he does not give importance to its flow anymore. Hiroshi
Matsumoto does not attempt a description or a transcription of time; he
does not want to develop scientific o r philosophical theories about
it. He forcibly brings the viewer to a simple process – to
observe time without prejudice, without forming theories; to absorb its
course without taking
Massimo Nicotra
Translation: Claudia Vianello
Thoughts for 9x9 painting series
Matsumoto's 9 x
9 paintings
The Matsumoto's 9 X 9 paintings
are very intriguing and challenging:
commentators have pointed to "..amazing use of color and texture draw
us into a world of wonderous pigment and emotional expressions." But,
in my opinion, such comments (while capturing real facts) on the whole
miss the point. What distinguishes those little paintings from other,
bigger ones, is the fact that they speak about such an elusive element
as TIME.
Time, in Matsumoto's "9x9"s,
emerges in the sequence, not in any single
painting: I mean, does the "June 4, 2009" speak about the weather of
that particular day (and observed where?) or the inner attitude of the
painter or anything else? I think it does not...according to
Wittgenstein there's no such thing as the flowing of time, it can only
be measured by some other physical process, like the movement of the
hands of a watch. Matsumoto' 9x9 paintings perform such a function,
behave like different positions of the hands of a clock, the "June 4,
2009" says that there has already been the "June 3, 2009" and that
"June 5, 2009" will follow...But, unlike watches, the 9x9 paintings
keep memory of time, they accumulate, they grow in number, in a sense
they make time visible, like a flower or a plant does, but they give a
LINEAR representation to time, a painting a day, while physical
phenomena usually have a nonlinear dynamics (one year in the life of a
two years old little boy is not the same as one year in the life of a
sixty years old man). So, in a way, life cannot be wholly captured by
the 9x9 paintings, once more life is more complicate...a title for the
whole sequence could be "The Physical Impossibility of Time
representation In the Mind of Someone Living", to paraphrase the Damien
Hirst's title for his very famous (and a bit expensive) shark.
Francesco Filippi, Professor of
Economics, University of Pisa, Italy
August 2009
Collections of Francesco Filippi
Review of my work
C.J. Shane
April 2015
https://plus.google.com/+CJShane/posts/5ZdzzZA1Lj8
C.J. Shane: https://plus.google.com/+CJShane/
Laurel Sheridan
February 2015
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/330451691383437823/
Laurel Sheridan: https://www.pinterest.com/aussielozza/