Whitestone Gallery is pleased to present Tetsuo Mizù’s solo exhibition at H Queen’s, Hong Kong. This exhibition showcases the artist’s body of abstract works, inspired by the coded system of international maritime signal flags.

Mizù’s motifs of maritime signal flags make him a very unique artist; working with the coded system of international maritime signal flags, where the alphabets embed different meanings, with different sets of colors and patterns, an assortment of primary colors and geometrical shapes are put together to create meanings, in order to communicate between ships at sea. Mizù fuses these patterns with the memories of his stay in Italy and the times he played flag games with his daughter, to create soft hued rhythmic patterns that signals abstraction.

Surface texture is very important to Mizù’s oeuvre; the artist carefully builds up the paint surface in a rough buttery texture that enriches his chosen palette. In other words, ‘matière’, matter and substance, represents the residue of the artist’s labor on the canvas. Mizù uses soft brushstrokes to generate a kind of pliable creamy textures, Mamoru Yonekura, the Japanese art critic once described Mizù’s art as: “together with his subtle hues, the quality of Mizù’s matière is as pearls or ivory.” Furthermore, Mizù is fascinated with music, and the quality of his matière is akin to sounds, floating along the surface of the canvas. Such melodious attributes are enhanced by the lyricism of the titles.

Born in Tokyo in 1944 and studied paintings in Musashino Art School, Mizù encountered Modigliani’s paintings in 1968, and the latter became the artist’s lifelong inspiration. Notable commissions of Mizù include, a stained-glass work for the church of St. Anna in Lavino, Rome in 1987, and a large-scale mural for the Nagano Winter Olympics in Japan in 1998. Mizù also published illustrated art books. He had exhibited extensively throughout his career, including a momentous exhibition in 1989, ‘Chagall, Dali, Picasso, Melois, and Mizù’ at B.I.A.F. Art Inter AG, in Barcelona, and held solo exhibitions throughout the world including, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Japan and Hong Kong.

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미즈 테츠오
미즈 테츠오

미즈 테츠오는 해상에서 선박 간의 통신에 이용되는 「국제 신호기」를 조합해 타이틀을 디자인해 가는 '플래그 시리즈'로 1980년대 일약 주목을 받게 된다. 그는 이탈리아, 프랑스, 스페인에서 오래 거주하며 세계 각지에서 작품을 전시했다.
1987년 로마 근교 Anzio 콩쿠르에서 특별상을 수상하고, Lavino, St. Anna 교회의 스테인드글라스 제작을 의뢰받는다. 1989년 샤갈, 달리, 피카소, 멜로이스와 함께 단체전(Barcelona, Spain)에 초대되었으며, 1990년 달리와의 공동 전시회(Beaune, France)에 초청받은 것은 그가 유럽에서 얼마나 높은 평가를 받았는지를 보여준다. 그의 작품은 무광택과 전체적인 양감이 극세선으로 나누어져 현대적인 추상을 나타내며, Art Basel(스위스), FIAC(파리), Art Rio(브라질) 등의 세계적인 아트페어에 소개되었다.

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