TETSUYA ISHIDA
2026-07-06Ishida came of age during Japan’s “lost decade” of the 1990s, an era that saw a severe, long-lasting recession accompanied by social challenges and economic displacement that significantly affected his generation. The scenarios in Ishida’s vivid, hyper-detailed paintings address those travails, their absurdities resonating on both psychological and sociological levels.
Many of Ishida’s protagonists are young people or working-age men with blank expressions, their generic anonymity recalling René Magritte’s bowler-hatted figures. Isolated and desperate, they face bizarre, dreamlike situations and are often subject to mechanical or animalistic metamorphoses.
Opposite – Recalled, 1998
Exhibition runs through to July 31st, 2026
Gagosian
4 rue de Ponthieu
75008 Paris
France
