Norizo｜Norizo
Solo Exhibition
Overlapping
September 17 – Sptember 28, 2026
12:00p.m.〜7:00p.m.（Closed at 5:00p.m. on the last day）
Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Anicoremix Gallery will be holding Norizo's solo exhibition "Overlapping" from September 17 to 28, 2026.
Norizo is an acclaimed artist who has exhibited both domestically and internationally, with works selling out at multiple exhibitions.
The fundamental theme in his work is the emotional movement of "nostalgia."
The unique hues, reminiscent of the aged patina of old books or antique clothing, evoke a sense of longing within us, transporting us back to the warm memories of "that day." As viewers are enchanted by the charm of the depicted children, they will inevitably find themselves overlaying their own childhood memories, creating a profound resonance.
This exhibition focuses on two symbolic motifs: "old headphones" and "old stuffed animals," quietly enveloping the entire space in a nostalgic atmosphere.
Norizo's works serve as a "device" for freely navigating between the present and the past, leading us to a special sensation.
Please enjoy the experience of time overlapping in multiple layers.
At the root of my creative process is an interest in the emotional movement of "nostalgia."
To evoke this, I have incorporated "old objects" as motifs in my work.
While this exhibition features various objects, I have positioned the "old headphones" and "old stuffed animals," which have appeared repeatedly, as symbolic motifs for this theme.
Headphones, whose design reflects the technology and ideas of their era. Stuffed animals and their clothing, which convey the tailoring and mass production techniques of their time. Both are products born of a specific era. These objects, having served their purpose, simply stand, exposing the beauty of their structure and texture. All of them were made before I was born, and although I have no direct experience with them, I am strongly drawn to their presence.
What is born when past ideas and my contemporary sensibilities meet on the canvas? Perhaps I continue to paint these to find out. They do not conflict, but rather overlap in a single space, coexisting peacefully.
It is not a sentimental recollection, but a "temporal overlapping" (Overlapping) where past and present intersect through objects. I would be delighted to share this view with you at the exhibition.
―Norizo
Norizo｜Norizo
Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1977
1997 Graduated from Tokyo Designer Gakuin College, Illustration Department
2007 Graduated from Kodansha Famous Schools (KFS)
Norizo is an artist who explores a unique sense of nostalgia through old motifs and characters. Rather than mere sentimentality, he uses a fusion of digital technology and analog oil painting to embed the physical presence of accumulated time onto the canvas. In recent years, he has participated in numerous exhibitions abroad, including in France, and currently continues to create from his base in Nagano.
I paint something that disappears with time—something gained by loss.
The old objects in my works were once the embodiment of aspirations from a certain era. Designs conceived with a yearning for the future are now worn and exist in silence.
Furthermore, the children in the works act as mediators connecting to old memories. While contrasting with the time during which old objects decay and transform through natural processes, the children's time also moves forward, running parallel to it.
I construct a painting through the dialogue between digital and oil painting. The compositions assembled digitally sometimes reveal structures that I myself did not anticipate. I then translate these into the multi-layered impasto of oil paints. The resulting surface is structural, yet also an accumulation of digital and analog. While created "now," I aim for a feeling as if it "had always been there."
Nostalgia not as sentiment, but as perception.
I depict the overlapping of time, which is the re-recognition in the present of things that are already becoming the past.
