守谷史男「Shangri-La ー理想郷を求めてー」個展於7月15日-8月30日在大阪一音当代美術館「ICHION CONTEMPORARY」隆重開幕

Venue：ICHION CONTEMPORARY

9-7 Nozaki-cho, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0055

Exhibition Period：2025.7.15 Tue. - 8.30 Sat.

Open：11:00‒18:00 (Last entry at 17:30) ※Closes at 17:00 on the final day

Closed :Sundays, Mondays, and Public Holidays

Admission :：Free

URL：https://ichion-contemporary.com

Shangri-La──a name for the ideal land hidden deep beyond snowy mountains, living quietly only within the depths of people’s hearts. First depicted in James Hilton’s novel Lost Horizon (1933), it is a dreamlike place of eternal serenity and harmony, forever unreachable. For over half a century, Fumio Moriya has devoted himself to pursuing his own inner Shangri-La of art. In the 1960s, he explored contrasts between organic human forms and inorganic structures, depicting tension and conflict through spray-painted figures of compressed bodies. After his journey to the United States in 1975, his gaze shifted toward the fundamental elements of painting—line, plane, and color field—as his expression moved into abstraction. From the 1980s, Moriya employed scratch techniques and repeated lines to inscribe traces of time and memory, expanding his exploration through series such as “Work”, “Marks”, ”Line”, and ultimately transforming architectural memories of ancient mounds and shrines into geometric forms in his “Shrine” series. His work consistently weaves together material and action, memory and time, construction and trace—an endless journey toward an unattainable ideal land. This exhibition invites viewers to trace Moriya’s lifelong pursuit of Shangri-La and hopes that, in front of his works, each person’s own ideal land may quietly take shape.