Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd. is pleased to announce the grand opening of the BUG art center on September 20th. Our momentous inaugural exhibition, titled A Q & I, features the works of artist Yousuke Amemiya. We are pleased to have had several opportunities to support Amemiya as he built his artistic career: he received the grand prize for the 15th Graphic Art Hitotsubo Exhibition in 2000, and in 2011 he was awarded a scholarship from Ezoe Memorial Recruit Foundation to study in the Netherlands. After his time in the Netherlands, Amemiya relocated to Berlin, Germany, where he continued his artistic pursuits. His interdisciplinary method—which incorporates painting, sculpture, video, and performance—can be seen as a practice that disrupts the conventions and perceived universality of the world.
Perfectly Ordinary Stones, Carried For 1,300 Years, a project initiated in 2014 and set to continue for 1300 years, serves as a prime example of Amemiya’s approach. His outlook of using art to view and reconstruct the world resonates with BUG’s philosophy.
In this exhibition, Amemiya builds upon and develops his previous endeavors, creating occurrences that ignite chemical reactions in a blank, open space.