Thank you kosakukanechika for hosting the #hometeam🎨🚧🏀 and congratulations 🎨 noritaka_tatehana on this wonderful exhibition! When painting someone else’s artwork at the scale of a public basketball court, it’s always interesting to see works from the artist’s studio. • KOSAKU KANECHIKA is pleased to present Noritaka Tatehana's solo exhibition "Syncretism" from October 7th to November 18th, 2023. In this, the artist’s ninth solo exhibition with the gallery, Tatehana echoes past themes by presenting work that reflects on value systems drawn from an examination and re-interpretation of Japanese culture from a modern perspective. In particular, the central piece of the exhibition, “Descending Painting (Double Doors),” is a seigan triptych that focuses on the methodological concept of binary homogeneity and Shinto-Buddhist syncretism. Shinto-Buddhist syncretism was also the primary theme of Tatehana’s 2020 solo exhibition “Dual Dialogue,” which presented the work “Duality Painting” t...