CLEAR GALLERY TOKYO is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Yuji Mizuta, "I have an incurable compulsion to"

on view from July 19th through August 10th.Working as a textile artist for over 20 years, Mizuta has developed his artistic practice through various techniques including pencildrawings, photography, and collage. His enduring fascination with textiles lies in the expressions they create and the roles theyserve when employed in physical acts such as being worn or tied or used to wrap things up.In Talisman, Mizuta embroidered English essays he wrote while studying at a language school atop photos taken around the same time. As a record of a particular place and time, the needle like a clock's hand, the embroidered essays include the artist's vocabulary and grammar errors, uncorrected.In the main part of the exhibition, Mizuta depicts his fetishistic impulses using dyed cloth in the manner of a painter applying paint to canvas, layer by layer, resulting in an obsessive, quasi-religious paean from the artist to his beloved textiles.Most artists use fabric, in the form of canvas, simply as the backdrop on which they produce their artworks. As you will see in this exhibition, however, Yuji Mizuta employs the fabric itself as an integral part of his art, in so doing creating new expressions in 2D.