On Paper: Art and Print Market

Artists
Ginji Kinashi, Shang Huining, Yukari Suematsu, Genki Yamashita

Dates
3 – 6 May 2025

Time
11am – 6pm

GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE is chuffed to announce our participation in WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.41 ‘On Paper: Art and Print Market’, which will be taking place at WHAT CAFE from Saturday, the 3rd of May to Wednesday, the 6th of May, 2025.

At this exhibition, we’ll be showing off drawing works by four brilliant artists: Ginji Kinashi, Shang Huining, Yukari Suematsu, and Genki Yamashita. The exhibition is all about works that use paper as their medium, including drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs. It’s going to explore the wide range of expression you can get through “paper”, which is a key material for artists and where a lot of their ideas come from. The venue will also have a market bit where you can buy and take away artworks, as well as artists’ own little books and ZINEs. We reckon you’ll really enjoy the diverse charm of artistic expressions that start with paper.

Exhibiting Galleries
biscuit gallery, GALLERY HAYASHI + ART BRIDGE, GALLERY SCENA., Gallery Yukihira, myheirloom, Otherwise Gallery, TAKU SOMETANI GALLERY, WATERMARK arts & crafts, WHAT CAFE

Artists Profile

Ginji Kinashi

Ginji Kinashi, born in 1999, is an artist based in Tokyo, Japan. We encounter precious glimpses of awe, hidden within our day-to-day life. Ginji translates those impermanent moments of scenery and ambience into paintings, through his unique perspective of lights and colours influenced by the Impressionists. His work often evoke a sense of nostalgia, inviting viewers to pause and appreciate the subtle beauty that exists in their surroundings.

Garden II, 2025, Oil pastel and water colour on paper, H203 × W242 mm

Shang Huining
secret garden_03, 2025, Pencil, acrylic, acrylic gouache on paper, H148 × W210 mm

Yukari Suematsu

Yukari Suematsu’s work stems from her interest in the contradiction that we as individuals and as a society can be both deeply virtuous and brutally prejudiced and discriminatory at the same time. Based on her production notes, these works have been created through the elaboration of titles and countless preliminary sketches and drawings and have been transformed from her personal experiences and questions to depictions of various aspects of life that all people in this world encounter.

The study for “Visions of a Torn World” 15, 2022, Acrylic on paper, H182 × W257 mm

Genki Yamashita

Genteki Yamashita was born in 1998 in Kanagawa Prefecture. He graduated from BA Oil Painting at Tama Art University. Yamashita explores the possibilities of diverse materials such as charcoal, crayon, oil and waste wood from everyday objects in his paintings, drawings and sculptures. By drawing lines and surfaces as if in direct contact with the screen, the distance from the screen and the physicality of the act of drawing remain on the screen. The medium that accumulates on the screen is like a pool of water that accumulates during a tour, and is formed as a work of art with unpredictable phenomena, instability, inevitability and coincidence in the production process. By wearing the accumulation of time through Yamashita’s handiwork, the work has a sense of weight, including an appearance and shape caused by artifice.

The view with a thing, 2025, Oil, charcoal, crayon on paper, H415 × W1210 mm