25/05/2026
[Sugawara Takehiko: RUTEN]
23.05-21.06.2026
Osaka
Galerie Tamenaga is honoured to present Sugawara Takehiko: RUTEN, a special memorial exhibition dedicated to Takehiko Sugawara. Following its deeply moving presentations at Galerie Tamenaga in Paris and Tokyo, this powerful retrospective now arrives in Osaka.
Bringing together approximately thirty works spanning 2011 to 2025, the exhibition captures the full arc of the artist’s representation by the gallery.
Sugawara approached the natural world with profound reverence. From the thousand-year-old Jindai cherry tree to the ancient Nanahiro cedar, he captured nature’s overwhelming life force directly onto the surface of his work. Each of his paintings conveys a meditative variation on the beauty of natural cycles, and a quiet celebration of time—holding both its vast, unceasing flow and the poignancy of a single, fleeting moment.
Through these powerful testaments to nature, his distinct vision remains. Join us in Osaka to celebrate the life and legacy of an extraordinary artist whom we had the honour of representing.