Taiyo to Ame no Melody (Melody of Sun and Rain)
PALAS•Feb 07, 2026 — Mar 28, 2026
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MISAKO & ROSEN gallery presents the group exhibition Taiyo to Ame no Melody (Melody of Sun and Rain), featuring artists Trevor Shimizu, Maureen Gallace and Kazuyuki Takezaki, at PALAS, Sydney.
In June of 2024, Jiro passed away.
Twenty years ago I was standing in Yvon Lambert’s old gallery space on 25th Street looking at a room of works by Kazuyuki Takezaki. Back then he was making small mixed-media paintings featuring large swathes of blank space punctuated by odd scribbles and gestures, rendered faintly in pencil or pen with occasional touches of colour. I remember the lighting in the gallery being dimmer than usual because there was a big Tatsuo Miyajima installation of flashing digital numbers the next room over. The shadows heightened the incidentalness of Takezaki’s works. The critic Manami Fujimori happened to be there too and we exchanged observations. I said something about the works being like haiku. Of course I wouldn’t…
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Taiyo to Ame no Melody (Melody of Sun and Rain)
PALAS•Feb 07, 2026 — Mar 28, 2026
Press Release
MISAKO & ROSEN gallery presents the group exhibition Taiyo to Ame no Melody (Melody of Sun and Rain), featuring artists Trevor Shimizu, Maureen Gallace and Kazuyuki Takezaki, at PALAS, Sydney.
In June of 2024, Jiro passed away.
Twenty years ago I was standing in Yvon Lambert’s old gallery space on 25th Street looking at a room of works by Kazuyuki Takezaki. Back then he was making small mixed-media paintings featuring large swathes of blank space punctuated by odd scribbles and gestures, rendered faintly in pencil or pen with occasional touches of colour. I remember the lighting in the gallery being dimmer than usual because there was a big Tatsuo Miyajima installation of flashing digital numbers the next room over. The shadows heightened the incidentalness of Takezaki’s works. The critic Manami Fujimori happened to be there too and we exchanged observations. I said something about the works being like haiku. Of course I wouldn’t…


































