In Gei-Kaku Ichinyo (Art Core Oneness), Japanese artist Ibuki Minami offers a meditative and multilayered investigation into the origins of artistic expression in the digital age. Now on view at GOCA by Garde in Chelsea through June 28, 2025, the exhibition presents a new body of abstract paintings that harmonize minimalist form with algorithmic precision.
What distinguishes Minami’s work is the interplay between hand and system—his brush guided by logic yet never entirely mechanical. Each painting begins with an algorithm written directly onto the canvas, an invisible scaffold that shapes the visible result. This convergence of intuition and computation mirrors the exhibition’s deeper inquiry: how can art, in an age of endless mediation, still touch the essential?
Curated by Kenta Ichinose and presented in GOCA’s serene, light-filled space, Gei-Kaku Ichinyo unfolds with meditative clarity. Minami’s work doesn’t shout—it invites stillness, asking viewers to slow down and reflect on the nature of creativity itself. As GOCA’s second exhibition since launching in January, it affirms the gallery’s promise to be a thoughtful platform for cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary dialogue in contemporary art.
— Xuezhu Jenny Wang