“Kawashima (b. 1969) and Fukui (b. 1966) began their artistic pursuit intensively only ten years ago, a little while after they graduated from art universities. The two artists belong to the generation following Yoshitomo Nara, whose paintings provided a renewed recognition of childhood sensibility and liberated Japan’s contemporary art from Euro-centered ideology. Kawashima and Fukui, who stand in a newly cultivated wilderness and unfold their own world step by step as they reconfirm themselves and others, might represent the adolescence of Japan’s contemporary art evolving from the infancy represented by Nara.”
— Noriko Miyamura / art journalist