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Born in Hyogo, Japan, 1979. Lives and works in Kobe. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts (BFA, 2003; MFA, 2005). At first glance Tsumura's paintings seem to open onto landscapes, though no one has said that they are. In their details, creatures no one has seen crawl, birds fly, and mountains shaped like human bodies rise up — and none of them are quite those things. There is the clueless thrill of meeting a total stranger and finding the conversation carrying on without knowing anything about them. Above all, the colours of water and sky, the decisiveness of the strokes, and the compositional nerve to make even unstable images hold together give the paintings their freshness. There is a canvas, there is colour, there is a line. Here lies the pleasure of looking at painting that is primitive and plain, prompting a different perception each time you see it.

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