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…