NISOPROJECT is a curatorial platform dedicated to supporting emerging international artists and rediscovering lesser-known masters from the XXth century. It presents exhibitions in various locations in collaboration with artists, estates, and representing galleries.

NISOPROJECT is a curatorial platform dedicated to supporting emerging international artists and (...)

Nicky Hodge lives and works in London. She has exhibited her paintings, drawings and multimedia works widely over the past 25 years. In 2021, Horse Gossip, a solo show, opened at Bobinska Brownlee in London. In the same year, she was selected for several group exhibitions including Notes for a landscape at Kingsgate Project Space and A Tiny Bit of Fire curated by Warbling Collective.  In 2022 she exhibited with Gwenyth Fugard and Dom Gray in Something Tender at Yorkton Workshops in May and Wundertüte, a two person show with the German abstract artist Michael Kaul, opened at Hart’s Lane Gallery in August. In the same year, her collection of ten paintings, Nighttime words leak out, was presented online by Richeldis Fine Art. In 2023 she has a work selected for the group exhibition Champs Noir at Terrace Gallery. Slip Road, a solo show with Francis Gallery in Bath, took place this year May – July 2023.

HÄNSEL + GRETEL RIUNION 2020 Acrylic on Canvas

Since 2021, Nisoproject has been organizing exhibitions between London and Paris. The gallery’s program, which focuses on the young international contemporary scene, also includes an annual showcase of overlooked twentieth-century artists. The first exhibition of its kind since the inception of the gallery, ‘Nakazato, Brusatin’ is an intergenerational dialogue bringing together a body of work from 1968-1971 of Japanese artist Hitoshi Nakazato (1936-2010) with a series of works by Colombian artist Daniel Brusatin (b. in 1989). 

Curatorial dialogues are at the heart of Nisoproject Gallery’s programming. This exhibition brings back to the limelight the work of an established and highly relevant yet under-represented artist in a carefully curated dialogue with a young contemporary artist who is particularly sensitive to his work. By anchoring Brusatin’s work to the timeline of art history and bringing Nakazato’s back to the centre of the contemporary scene, the exhibition not only shows the pertinence of these artists but creates a connection between the past, present and future. Exposing thus a timeless quest and oeuvre. 

Nisoproject is committed, amongst other interests, to show a keen and informed look at Japanese art
 of the last 60 years. The first exhibition organized by the gallery in 2021, ‘Komorebi’, was  a dialogue between young Japanese ceramicist Yuki Nara, and Daniel Brusatin. The famed essay on Japanese aesthetics, “In Praise of Shadows” by Junichiro Tanizaki, laid the curatorial structure for the exhibition. A confrontational dialogue on aesthetic values between East and West was embodied by the juxtaposition of Nara’s and Brusatin’s work. The gallery maintains close ties with Japan and is proud to collaborate with the Osaka-based Artcourt Gallery. 

Hitoshi Nakazato’s Ichinchiani series is a testimony to minimalism, and to challenging the traditionally engrained practices of art. “Why paint? What would a painting that rejected conventional concepts of painting look like?”. Nakazato’s puzzling reflections around traditional art-making were spurred by student turmoil against authoritative figures at Tamabi Art University, where he taught in the late 1960s. At a pivotal moment in his career, he sought to redefine the act of making by introducing into the painting process elements born of Japanese industry and architecture. The sumitsubo, a Japanese line marking tool, was his predominant technique. His characteristic monochromatic works of 1968-1971, which brought him international institutional recognition, are composed entirely of straight lines. Poetic and lyrical, spontaneous yet controlled, the laying of the pigment through snapping the sumitsubo on the surface of the canvas conjures all mark-making characteristics. The excess pigment scattered on the extent of the line provides a spontaneous dotted topography. 

With the same subversive energy of trying to redefine painting Brusatin expresses,“ If art is to survive
 in the collective consciousness, we must integrate craft, industry and poetry. Art cannot exist on the periphery, it must be part of nature and human architecture”. Resonating profoundly with Nakazato’s work, his subtle combination of colour, form and material creates a balance and tension between opposites, between the purity of an idea and the chaos of production, a constant dialogue between pathos and logos. Always striving to come closer to the Gesamtkunstwerk, the all encompassing, global work of art. In this series, the paintings are as much constructions or sculptures as they are paintings, and the installations are conceived as interdisciplinary liaisons. In his work, he uses materials from industry: a beam that held railway tracks, ropes that tied ships to land and pieces of cargo pallets. He combines them with ceramics and traditional elements of fine art. By painting with brushes, blowtorches or ropes, he seeks, like Nakazato, to disrupt practice and create new paths for poetry that link different facets of humanity. 

Press Release Nakazato Brusatin English.pdf

‘Nakazato, Brusatin’ is an intergenerational dialogue that brings together a body of work from 1968-1971 of Japanese artist Hitoshi Nakazato (1936-2010) with a series of works by Colombian artist Daniel Brusatin (b. in 1989).

NISOPROJECT

NISOPROJECT

16.10—26.10.23

16.10—26.10.23

INVITED
ARTISTS

Nicky Hodge

Nicky Hodge

Michael Kaul

Michael Kaul

NISOPROJECT

NISOPROJECT

16.10—26.10.23

16.10—26.10.23

INVITED ARTISTS

Nicky Hodge

Nicky Hodge

Michael Kaul

Michael Kaul

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