Kawaguchi Sei
河口 聖 1947出生於鳥取縣，目前為日本美術家連盟會員。他是日本當代畫壇中，致力於探索「抽象表現與記憶感性」的資深畫家。自 1970 年代起，他便在村松畫廊等指標性藝術空間舉辦個展，至今創作不輟。他的藝術地位在於其跨越數十年的藝術堅持，成功地將日本傳統的情感細膩度轉化為具有現代感的抽象語彙。
「回憶」系列作品是河口聖的核心創作題材。他將生命中「風景、光影、情感」的殘片進行拆解，並以抽象的方式在畫布上進行重構。作品不追求物象的寫實，而是透過半透明顏料的層層堆疊，表現出記憶隨時間流逝而產生的交織與模糊美感。
作為一名跨越昭和、平成至令和時代的藝術家，其作品展現出極強的時間深度。他利用色彩的微妙漸層與帶有顫動感的線條，捕捉記憶中那種「似曾相識卻又抓不住」的瞬間，竭力探索「時間性」的視覺化，使觀者能感受到時光流逝的氣息。
其畫風在靜謐中帶有一種理性構築的秩序。即便主題是感性的記憶回溯，他仍能透過嚴謹的構圖與色彩平衡，營造出和諧的畫面張力，體現了當代藝術家對「混亂記憶」進行藝術性梳理的功力。河口聖的作品不追求鮮豔的色彩，而是透過媒材的堆疊和符號的運用，創造出具有時間感和深度，充滿冥想空間的現代抽象繪畫。
Kawaguchi Sei 1947 born in Tottori Prefecture, he is currently a member of the Japan Artists' Federation. He is a veteran painter in Japan's contemporary art scene dedicated to exploring “abstract expression and the sensibility of memory.” Since the 1970s, he has held solo exhibitions at leading art spaces such as the Muramatsu Gallery and continues to create unabated. His artistic stature lies in his decades-long artistic perseverance, successfully transforming the delicate emotional nuances of Japanese tradition into a modern abstract vocabulary.
The “Memories” series forms the core of Kawahara's creative practice. He deconstructs fragments of life's “landscapes, light and shadow, emotions,” reconstructing them abstractly on canvas. His works eschew literal representation, instead employing layered translucent pigments to express the intertwined, blurred beauty of memories fading with time.
As an artist spanning the Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras, his work possesses profound temporal depth. Through subtle color gradients and tremulous lines, he captures those elusive “déjà vu” moments within memory, relentlessly exploring the visualization of “temporality” to evoke the palpable breath of time's passage.
His style carries a rational, constructed order within its tranquility. Even when exploring the emotional terrain of memory recall, he maintains a harmonious visual tension through rigorous composition and balanced color, demonstrating a contemporary artist's skill in artistically organizing “chaotic memories.” Kawaguchi's work eschews vivid colors, instead employing layered materials and symbolic motifs to create modern abstract paintings imbued with temporal depth and meditative space.
