Yu Nishimura's "Nap with Houseplants" features soft, earthy tones and minimal forms, capturing a seated figure in a striped shirt amid lush greenery. The composition is simple yet evocative, blending flat planes and gentle outlines that suggest a serene domestic scene. The style is characterized by its graphic quality and understated palette, reflecting a contemporary aesthetic. This piece integrates elements of everyday Japanese life with a dreamlike quality, embodying Nishimura's exploration of the transient and introspective nature of memory and time. ...
Yu Nishimura lives and works in Kanagawa Prefecture, where he draws from the visual fabric of everyday life in Japan—ranging from street photography and anime to the shifting landscapes and built environments that surround him. His multilayered paintings fuse dreamlike portraits with urban scenes, rendered in evocative palettes and minimal, graphic compositions. While grounded in contemporary visual culture, his works also carry a subtle sense of melancholy, evoking the passage of time and fading memory. Nishimura's paintings occupy a space between the present and the remembered, capturing fleeting moments with both clarity and introspection. ...
Sadie Coles HQ is a London-based contemporary art gallery representing over sixty established and emerging international artists. The gallery opened in London in 1997, with its inaugural exhibition – of new paintings by American painter John Currin – presented in parallel with an offsite show by British artist Sarah Lucas, The Law. Since its inception, Sadie Coles HQ has operated from a variety of spaces, mounting numerous off-site projects and partaking in collaborative exchanges throughout the city and abroad. The gallery frequently hosts emerging young galleries and curatorial projects in The Shop at Kingly Street, and a live events programme titled GARGLE. In September 2013, Sadie Coles HQ opened a space at 62 Kingly Street in Soho, in April 2021 a space at 8 Bury Street in St James’s and in October 2025 a third space in Mayfair: a six-storey Georgian townhouse at 17 Savile Row. ...
