Gallery MORYTA + Gallery Kazuki

【ABOUT Gallery MORYTA】
Gallery MORYTA opened in 1991 in Keyaki street, an important cultural spot in Fukuoka city. We focus on displaying and introducing contemporary art and their creators. Besides exhibitions, the gallery also holds more general cultural events such as panel sessions, live music and performances.

In addition to the activities in the gallery, we are also actively engaged in planning museums exhibitions and cultural events in the area. In the past we have contributed to the realization of events such as the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum Opening Project “Ombak Hitam” (1999) and the “Fukuoka Art Project” held together with the Fukuoka Art Museum and Mitsubishi Estate Artium (2000). Furthermore, since 2015 we are annually presenting the “ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA”.

We discover and introduce artist and works with unique perspectives. Meanwhile, we are also focusing on the avant-garde art activities that took place in the 1950s and 60s. Japan’s well regarded ”Gutai” and ”Mono-Ha” are famous worldwide, but around the same time, there were also regional movements in Japan such as “Kyushu-ha” and “Shudan-kumo”; across the border, Taiwan has had intriguing movements such as “Tong Fang Painting Association” and “Fifth Moon Group” as well. We aim to convey the interest and depth of such art to as many people as possible, to share that joy with the world.

In recent years, we introduced young artists such as Uzo Hiramatsu,Susumu Takashima, Marie Higashi,Kazuki Torigoe, Season Lao, and others who have developed and expanded their activities in Japan and abroad, and received high appraisal.

The gallery values the atmosphere created between the artwork and the viewer. People, who came to the gallery have discovered new values by studying the artworks, broadened their consciousness and we hope to see the lightening up of expressions in the future as well.

【ABOUT Gallery Kazuki】
A Gallery is a creative space. It is not my intention to be it’s keeper. The space will be realized by mutual understanding. It is part of my body, here I live and feel, laugh and sing. It is not a solitary song but of many voices in a opera. What we call art is not the contents of the artist’s work, nor the owners opinion, but the meeting of minds, I call this an art gallery. Words that seems understandable but can’t be expressed in words, are crushed and shattered, the meaning absorbed in silence. I realize here the bonds between silence and words. Here rests the existence of art. Stains on a wall taught me art, and in the fleeting clouds I found infinite strength. From the light-absorbing plants taking roots in the dark ground, I learned courage. I call this place the pasture of art , the power of nature alive, frank and undisguised. I spend my early childhood wraped in the scent of new-mown hay, a life unchanged in a shining world. Maybe I will find just part of that world in a work of art , just like the child I was, searching for the eternal field. The gallery has become a bridge between art and the future which makes it fruitful space for the Art Society.
Hitomi Kazuki
※ translated by Nina Hirano

If artists betray the social conscience and the basic principles of being human , where does art stand then?
“Ai Weiwei Speaks”