For ACK 2025, David Hockney and Japanese clay artists will unite in a joint exhibition presented by Annely Juda Fine Art and Mitochu Koeki.

Annely Juda Fine Art will showcase works from David Hockney’s 20 Flowers series, created in 2021. These iPad paintings, printed on paper, stem from his quarantine time working in Normandy, France in 2020. Inspired by daily observations, Hockney embraced the iPad for its immediacy, enabling a prolific output that vividly captures his surroundings.

Also on view will be a large-scale photographic drawing, 25th June 2022, Looking at the Flowers (Framed). Composed from individual photographs, the work forms a seamless panorama that defies the natural parameters of time and space. It draws the viewer into a self-referential world—at once familiar and entirely new.

Mitochu Koeki will present selected works by four Japanese female clay artists: Aizawa Rie, Hatano Aya, Hattori Makiko and Inazaki Eriko. The renewed global interest in ceramics reflects, in part, a response to the over-saturation and ephemeral nature of the digital age. This return to materiality is not a retreat into tradition, but rather a reawakening to the expressive potential of the medium. The increasing visibility of women artists in this field has been vital in shaping the evolving discourse around contemporary ceramics.

Though differing in medium and method, the creative practices of David Hockney and these ceramic artists converge in their shared pursuit: the most resonant articulation of form and idea.

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Exhibition Dates:

Thurs. November 13　Private View

                                       (by Invitation only) 

Fri. November 14　      noon–7pm
Sat. November 15　     noon–7pm
Sun. November 16       11am–5pm

         　                    　

Venue:

Art Collaboration Kyoto 2025

Kyoto International Conference Center/Booth No. GC10
Takaragaike, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-0001 Japan

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