FRIEZE LOS ANGELES

Nonaka-Hill is pleased to participate at Frieze Los Angeles 2023, with a solo presentation of paintings by Kyoko Idetsu. The paintings of Kyoko Idetsu emerge from daily life, which is arguably a daisy chain of minor stories. They are inevitably punctuated by more important stories that lodge in our memories and justify our picture frames, resumes, and obituaries; but Idetsu prefers to mostly focus on the smaller ones, anecdotes, elaborating them into paintings with outsized emotional and visual weight. We might call this anecdotal expressionism, a school of painting limited to herself. Or we might describe it as a painting diary, albeit seen through the lens of manga, television, and film; which heightens her ability to jump cut and flashback, to move in time and space across the picture plane. This animates her painted anecdotes, infusing them with unique emotional registers that underlie daily domestic life. 

Kyoko Idetsu (b. Japan) lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Selected solo exhibitions include I want to wear a warm sweater., Bridget Donahue, New York, NY (2022-2023); He had no choice but to do so., Brulee (Shunsuke Imai Studio), Tokyo (2020); Emotion, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo (2019); Draw me a beautiful picture to hang in my house., LUCKY HAPPY STUDIO, Tokyo (2017); Milky Way, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo (2017); The Landscape I Saw the Other Day, Art Center Ongoing, Tokyo (2012). Selected group exhibitions include Kyoko Idetsu and Leo Okubo, Lavender Open Chair, Tokyo (2021); Natsuyasumi, Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles (2021); Fictions of Everyday Life, Akibatamabi 21, Tokyo (2016); TERATOTERA Festival, Tokyo (2015)