Gallery Itsutsuji is pleased to present the 5th Guillaume Bottazzi's solo show at the gallery from 17 May to 22 June 2019 in Tokyo.

Gallery Itsutsuji is pleased to present the 5th Guillaume Bottazzi's solo show at the gallery from 17 May to 22 June 2019 in Tokyo.

Colours of “Japan, my love” are sober, with cobalt blue and turquoise on beige and white mediums. Ten recent oil paintings on raw linen canvas or fabric, of 146cm x 97cm are shown but also backlit installations on aircraft canvas.

This major Japanese gallery enabled Guillaume Bottazzi to establish his style through several commissions for artworks. The Gallery Itsutsuji has introduced movements such as the Supports / Surfaces group, and artists such as Claude Viallat, Louis Cane, Daniel Dezeuze, Jean-Pierre Pincemin, and other as Pierre Buraglio, François Rouan, Jean-Michel Meurice, Simon Hantaï and Pierre Soulages.

In 2004, Guillaume Bottazzi was artist in residence in Japan and he has spent a great deal of time in the Land of the Rising Sun. In 2010, at the initiative of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, the Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation of History and Culture, the Tokyo National Art Center, the Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo Midtown, the Mori Building company and the Mori Art Museum, Guillaume Bottazzi created an abstract artwork 3m high and 33m wide in the center of Tokyo. In 2011 the Miyanomori International Museum of Art in Japan commissioned him to create the largest painting in the country. An exhibition of Guillaume Bottazzi ’abstract paintings was organized at the same time. Admissions fees have been donated for the reconstruction of areas affected by the earthquake and tsunami.In 2012, selected by the Mori Art Museum, the Mori Building  company commissioned artworks from French artist Guillaume Bottazzi. They have been incorporated in the new Ark Hills Sengokuyama high-rise building in the heart of the rejuvenated Toranomon district in Tokyo.

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