THE HARTZ PROJECT is thrilled to announce our participation in Tokyo Gendai 2026 at Booth H31 with a duo show by American-Australian artist Michael Angel and Japanese artist Fumiya Odagawa.
This presentation, Where Traces Remain, brings together two distinct yet deeply resonant practices operating at the intersection of memory, transience, and the fluid nature of human connection. Moving away from rigid, fixed narratives, both artists invite viewers into quiet, contemplative spaces shaped by what is left behind, what is lost, and what softly dissolves over time. By exploring the physical and emotional landscapes where traces linger long after a moment has passed, Angel and Odagawa establish a poetic, cross-cultural dialogue between absence and presence.
Michael Angel deconstructs figuration through a profound material intuition driven by accumulation and erasure. Angel’s experience in fashion established a foundational relationship between material, surface, and repetition that continues to anchor his painting practice. Utilizing heavy palette knife layers and incisive scraping, his stratified and highly tactile surfaces evoke a sense of historical continuity and tangible presence, transforming personal narrative and emotional residue into compelling physical noise.
Fumiya Odagawa dissolves figuration through atmosphere and silence. Grounded in the refined sensibilities of Nihonga and influenced by classic Japanese cinema, his isolated characters bleed into hazy, translucent twilight washes. By blending compositions that emphasize distinctly Japanese rhythms of density and openness with richly intermingled fields of color, Odagawa captures the delicate, melancholic tension of passing time and the fragility of interpersonal bonds.
Tokyo Gendai 2026
Booth H31
Dates
VIP Preview
September 10 (Thu) 1:30pm - 8pm
Public Open
September 11 (Fri) 12pm - 8pm
September 12 (Sat) 11am - 6pm
September 13 (Sun) 11am - 5pm
