- David Zwirner
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By June 27, 2025
In just a few short years, Japanese artist Yu Nishimura rose to international fame, and his lyrical, melancholy paintings attracted collectors, hanging in a hazy, ethereal atmosphere – the mirrored engineering similarly blurred the psychological and emotional states. His scenes are instantly dreamy and creepy, destroying the logical tension between feelings and things, transforming through minimal painted gestures, translation, a series of complex senses of silence and desires that emerge directly from the depths of the unconscious.
In his first gallery debut, he also showed a new poetic work in his first solo exhibition in the United States, characterized by his unique fusion of traditional Japanese landscapes, simplification of characters in manga and anime, and the framing skills of the cinema. Nishimura combines traditional oil and protein with visual impulses attracted by pioneering post-war Japanese photography to create a painting that is both outrageously simple and universally resonant, as if a memory is just asleep, and we try to recall this feeling, a melancholy recollection, a melancholy recollection that emanates from our subconscious ambiguity. The show is a for sale sign after his recent auction breakout Beach (2020) at Christie's New York, priced at $296,100, with pre-sale estimated to be more than $40,000 to $60,000. When he worked, this result followed earlier growth in meteorite value pause (2020) received a high estimate of $70,000 for $132,000.
