CONTEMPORARY ART FROM JAPAN part II

CONTEMPORARY ART FROM JAPAN part II
SÖDERTÄLJE KONSTHALL
6 september – 19 oktober 2014
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM JAPAN part II
SÖDERTÄLJE KONSTHALL
6 september – 19 oktober
GALLERI KRETSEN
SALTSKOG GÅRD
6 – 28 september
Samtidskonst från Japan 2010
Det känns fantastiskt att återigen få visa japansk
samtidskonst i Södertälje konsthall. Contemporary Art
from Japan part 2, ingår i ett utbyte mellan Södertälje
Konstnärskrets och den japanska konstnärsföreningen
EAJAS (Emerging Art from Japan and Around Scandinavia).
En organisation med intresse i att bygga och knyta
konstnärliga kontakter i Skandinavien. Gruppen har
tidigare verkat under namnet SJP. Under tio års tid
ställde de ut på olika platser i Japan och bjöd in svenska
konstnärskollegor. Nu är det andra gången som de
japanska konstnärerna i EAJAS får en möjlighet att visa
sin konst i Sverige.
Bosatta i en annan världsdel, över 800 mil bort –
fågelvägen – med 7 timmars tidsförskjutning har 16
av de 23 utställarna bestämt sig för att komma hit.
Med hjälp av våra sponsorer har vi getts möjlighet att
bjuda konstnärerna på lite extra förnöjelse under deras
vistelse här.
Detta är ett unikt tillfälle att se japansk samtidskonst
och bilda sig en uppfattning om trender och tendenser,
kulturella rötter och eventuella egenheter. Avsikten
är att ge en representativ bild av den japanska
samtidskonsten.
I utställningen presenteras konstverk i stort format
och i tekniker som måleri, grafik, textil, installationer,
video. Ett par av konstnärerna lägger fokus på teman
som jordbävningen och tsunamin i Fukushima 2011.
Den här gången har vi utökat utställningslokalerna
till Galleri Kretsen och Saltskog Gård. Där visar EAJAS’
styrelsemedlemmar sina verk.
Vi vill särskilt rikta ett stort tack till Toshiko
Watanabe, vår kontakt i Japan, till Åsa Arvidsson, fd
pressråd vid Svenska Ambassaden i Tokyo, och till
medlemmarna i Södertälje Konstnärskrets för deras
stora engagemang i utställningsprojektet sedan starten
2008.
Här är Göran Petterssons berättelse om hur det hela
startade:
Söndagen den 25 maj 2008 var en varm och solig dag.
Jag hade tiggt till mig några av Hanna Litens debut-CD:n.
Snart satt jag på en buss genom det vackra sörmländska
landskapet på väg till Trosa. Där, hemma hos Kerstin
Svanberg, var japanska konstnärer på besök. Hon hade
dessutom bjudit in några svenska konstnärer och Åsa
Arvidsson från Svenska ambassaden i Japan. Meningen
var att diskutera hur man skulle kunna få igång ett konstnärligt utbyte mellan våra två länder.
Vi åt gott, samtalade och utbytte gåvor (några cdskivor bytte land). Olika framtidsplaner dryftades.
Kanske utställning i Konstnärshuset i Stockholm eller
varför inte Södertälje konsthall. Det var viktigt att få
till stånd en utställning med japansk konst i Sverige rätt
snart. Min roll blev att försöka få Södertälje konsthall
intresserad. Dåvarande kulturhuschef var Daniel
Wetterskog och han var positiv. Två år senare, 2010
startade projektet med en stor japansk utställning,
Contemporary art from Japan, i Södertälje konsthall.
Utbytet var tänkt vara i biennalform. Under hösten
2012 ställde fjorton konstnärer från Södertälje
Konstnärskrets ut i Japan; Contemporary art from
Sweden i Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse och på
Svenska Ambassaden i Tokyo. Åtta av konstnärerna
reste med till Japan och mottogs med stor värme och
gästfrihet. De visades runt i ett land där historien och
framtiden fruktbart vävs ihop i nutiden.
Nu 2014 är det dags att återgälda den gästfriheten
och vi välkomnar våra japanska gäster. Tre utställningslokaler i Södertälje fylls med Japansk konst;
Contemporary Art from Japan part II och Eleven
invited Japanese Artists. Inte illa!
Tack till alla som gjort det möjlig och fortsättning
följer 2016.
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Contemporary Art from Japan 2010
It feels great to once again show Japanese contemporary art in Södertälje konsthall. Contemporary Art
from Japan part 2, is a part of an exchange between
Södertälje Konstnärskrets and the Japanese artist association EAJAS (Emerging Art from Japan and Around
Scandinavia).
An organization with interest in building and
linking artistic contacts in Scandinavia. The group has
previously operated under the name of SJP. For ten years
they exhibited at various locations in Japan and invited
Swedish artist colleagues. Now it’s the second time that
the Japanese artists in EAJAS get an opportunity to show
their art in Sweden.
Living in another continent, over 800 mil away – as
the crow flies – with 7 hours of time lag, 16 of the 23
exhibitors decide to come here. With help from our
sponsors, we have the opportunity to invite artists on
some extra enjoyment during their stay.
This is a unique opportunity to see Japanese
contemporary art and form an opinion about trends
and tendencies, cultural roots and peculiarities. The
intention is to provide a representative picture of the
Japanese contemporary art.
This exhibition features artwork in large format
and in techniques such as painting, graphics, textiles,
installations and video. Some of artists focus on themes
as the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima 2011.
This time, we have expanded the exhibition facilities
to Galleri Kretsen and Saltskog gård. There EAJAS’ core
members show their artworks.
We especially want to thank Toshiko Watanabe, our
contact in Japan, Åsa Arvidsson, former press counselor
at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo, and the members of
Södertälje Konstnärskrets for their great dedication in
this exhibition project since its inception in 2008.
Sunday, May 25, 2008 was a warm and sunny day. I had
got me some ex of Hanna Litens debut CD by begging.
Soon I was sitting on a bus through the beautiful countryside of Sörmland heading to Trosa. There, at the home of
Kerstin Svanberg, where Japanese artists invited. She had
also invited some Swedish artists and Åsa Arvidsson from
the Swedish Embassy in Japan. The purpose was to discuss how we could initiate an artistic exchange between
our two countries.
We had a good meal, talked and exchanged gifts
(some CDs changed country). Different future plans was
discussed. Perhaps an exhibition in Konstnärshuset in
Stockholm, or why not Södertälje Konsthall.
It was important to carry out an exhibition of
Japanese art in Sweden quite soon. My role was to try
to get Södertälje Konsthall interested. The Cultural
Center was managed by Daniel Wetterskog at the time
and he appeared to be positive. Two years later, in 2010,
started the project with a large Japanese exhibition;
Contemporary Art from Japan, in Södertälje Konsthall.
The exchange was intended to be in biennials
form and during the fall of 2012 fourteen artists
from Södertälje Konstnärskrets exhibited in Japan,
Contemporary Art from Sweden in Yokohama Red
Brick Warehouse and at the Swedish Embassy in Tokyo.
Eight of the artists traveled to Japan and were received
with great warmth and hospitality. They were shown
around in a country where the history and the future
successfully are woven together in the Present.
Now, in 2014, it’s the time to reciprocate the
hospitality and we welcome our Japanese guests. Three
showrooms in Södertälje are filled with Japanese art;
Contemporary Art from Japan part II and Eleven
invited Japanese Artists. Not bad!
Thanks to everyone who made this possible and to be
continued 2016.
Here is Göran Pettersson’s story about how it all started:
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Södertälje konsthall:
Shigeru Idei
Aki Inomata
Yasushi Kanno
Seikou Kawachi
Nao Kimura
Hanako Kobayashi
Sonoko Mitsui
Kyoko Nakahara
Kei Nakamura
Kaori Sugai
Michihide Touda
Taeko Ukon
Toshiko Watanabe
Yuki Yanada
Nana Yorifuji
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Shigeru Idei
Begins at the end of the beginning. Japanese ink, watercolor, waterproofing pen on
Japanese paper (194x390 cm).
Begins at the end of the beginning
I am challenging to create a new sense of space by mixing
and mingling different skills, methods and materials
on canvases . The Bear of this painting was appeared
in picture books I published. Books were written in
collaboration with a poet and a doctor of National
Institute for Environmental Studies and I published three
books in total. The theme of those books is environmental
issues such and water, earth, soil and air.
The title of the book, “The end of the start is Start” was
entitled based on the various images of natural cycles on
earth.
1985 Obtained Master Degree from Tokyo National University of Fine Art
Solo Exhibitions
Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Kobe, Hiroshima, Nigata,
Nagaoka, New York City
Group Exhibitions
Istanbul, Shanghai, Philadelphia, Tokyo
Awards
Grand Prix from Mimura Museum
Outstanding Performance from the Ueno Royal Museum
Other activities
Original paintings for picture story book
Music and Art Collaborations with classic pianist from 2000 to 2006.
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Aki Inomata
French lessons with a parakeet, 2010, video (length: 5 min 21 sec).
2013-14 ”3D PRINT SHOW”, Metropolitan Pavilion,
New York
The Business Design Centre, London Carrousel Du Louvre, Paris
1983 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2008 MFA in Inter Media Art, Tokyo University of the Arts
Lives and works in Tokyo
Solo Exhibitions
2008 ”Aki Inomata”, Gallery Teo, Tokyo
2011 ”Aki Inomata: Why Not Hand Over a ’Shelter’ to Hermit Crabs?”, The University of Vermont Fleming Museum, Vermont, USA
2012 ”Girl, girl, girl . . . ”, Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo
”Girl, girl, girl . . . ”, Striped House Gallery, Tokyo
2013 ”Works 2009-2013”, One, Shanghai, China
”I Wear the Dog’s Hair, and the Dog Wears My Hair”, Hagiso, Tokyo
Group
2004 2005 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 French lessons with a parakeet
This is a documentary of my experiment of taking a
parakeet with me to French lessons.
The parakeet that appears in this piece (Wasabiccho)
was a one-year old male at the time, and he could speak a
little bit of Japanese. Together we went to study a foreign
language to both of us for half a year.
In the beginning, he was not at all interested in the
lessons, but partway through, he decided to take part,
memorized his favourite French expression, “s’il vous
plait” and began repeating this very loudly in class.
Ironically, this word has a similar meaning to his
favourite word in Japanese “cho-dai” (which means,
please give me that). Next he began to mix this word
with other words he knew, making new words such as
“Wasabi-plait” (“Wasabiccho” and “s’il vous plait”) and
“Chol vous plait” (“cho-dai” and “s’il vous plait”).
In this piece I examined the kind of shame that I feel
about my bad pronunciation of English, and the
difficulties that non-native speakers face, the differences
between one’s mother tongue and a learned language,
the problem of education, and the kind of complexes that
people feel speaking foreign languages. I wonder what
Wasabiccho, who not only learned words in a foreign
language but also began to make his own words in this
language, thought about us humans trying very hard to
learn a foreign language.
Exhibitions
”Tokyo Competition 2004”, Marunouchi Building, Tokyo
”P&E”, Artcourt Gallery, Osaka, Japan
”Kiryu saien 13”, Maehara Garage, Gunma, Japan
”Graduation Exhibition (M.F.A.) Inter Media Art Course”, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Zaim, Yokohama, Japan
”No Man’s Land”, Former French Embassy, Tokyo
”Nakanojyo Biennale”, Former Public School 3, Gunma, Japan
”The 15th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art”, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan ”The New Phase of Image XII Out of Place”, Gallery SUZUKI, Antenna Media, Kyoto, Japan
”Ogaki Biennale 2013”, IAMAS, Gifu, Japan
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Yasushi Kanno
Moonlight on the Lotus. Installation.
White marble, silver leaf (ø 125 mm/piece).
Moonlight of the Lotus
This work is a new experiment in my ”Moonlight” series
I have been developing since the Great East Japan
Earthquake.
Lotus leaves are carved out from marble, and silver foil
is impressed on the surface of the leaves. These leaves
seem so light and are installed on the floor as if they are
floating.
White marble symbolizes accumulation, bones, and
death, silver is the slow passing of time and the glow of
the moonlight, and the lotus leaves are the Pure Land
of Buddhism. The glowing white lotus leaves are spread
on the floor to recompose the puddles scattering among
the wreckage after the ebb of the tsunami and the moon
reflecting on their surface. This beautiful scene, which
I experienced and saw in my own eyes, was something
like a salvation I could only find in devastation and deep
sorrow. The lotus leaves recomposed this scene to link
the work to “Sange” (the Buddhist mass for departed
souls) and implicate ”requiem”. The foil shining silver
unexpectedly overlapped with the image of radiation and
evoked the sad reality taking place in the nuclear power
plants of Fukushima.
Works installed in a foreign country seem only beautiful,
but the various images and communication stemming
from this work may become an important catalyst for me
exploring new expressions by facing the reality of Japan
today and those who are trying to overcome the disaster
and live for the future.
1971 Born in Miyagi, Japan
1997 M.F.A., Aichi prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002 ”Vague discomfort”, Gallery K
”Peat land”, Galerie141, Nagoya
2003 ”Tangible Intelligence of Respectable Strangers 2003”, Gallery K
2005 ”Unit”, Toki Art Space, Tokyo
2006 ”Thinking of fog”, Galerie141
2008 ”Focusing on a new generation 2008”, Gallery K
2009 ”Accumulated mass” – media vol. 7, Toki Art Space
2012 ”Moonlight”, Gallery K
Selected Group Exhibitions
2003 ”Iematsuri”, artworks in Old folk house, Toyota
2004 ”Opening Memorial Sculpture Exhibition”, Sendai Nisikityou Park, Miyagi
”Projekat IN situ-VISION”, Pančevo,
Serbia & Montenegro
2006 ”New Art Competition of Miyagi”, F.P. Sendai Medhiatheque, Miyagi
2007 ”Art×Niigata Nishiku de Art 2007”, Niigata
2010 ”Toyota Art Competition 2010”, Toyota
Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota
”Kyukano-Kusuritubo”, Nagaoka
2011 ”Artists charity 2011 for the Tohoku Earthquake”, Nagaoka
2013 ”3Colours 3Senes”, Hibari-sya, Nagaoka
Collections
Aichi Prefecture, Nagakute city, Tokoname city, etc.
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Seikou Kawachi
The traditions Gold ”Fuji”, 2011. Color wood cut print (61x91,5 cm).
1989
1991
1992
1997
2003
2011
2012
1946 Born in Yamanashi
1973 Graduated from Tama Yniversity
Taught for 11 years at Tama University until March ’84
1985-86 Under a fellowship from the Japancese Cultural Agency, studied at Columbia University, Graduate School in NY and traveled around Europe
1976 Awarded the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Prize at the 12th Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition
1978 Awarded the National Museum of Modern Art
Tokyo Prize at the 12th International Art Exhibition in Tokyo
Awarded the Excellence Prize at the second Japan Modern Print Grand Prix Exhibition
1979 Awarded the Grand Prix at the 10th Print Grand Prix Exhibition
Awarded the Highest Prize at the 8th International Triennial of Original Colored Graphics in Grenchen
1982 Awarded the Highest Prize at the 6th Norwegian International Print Biennial
1983 Awarded the Special Edition Purchase at the World Print Fair, California
Awarded the Klagenfurt Prize at the 18th International Biennial of Graphic Arts in Ljubljana
Awarded the Special Prize at the Osaka International Print Triennial
Awarded the Grand Prix at the 3rd Tama Grand Pris Exhibition
International Print Exhibition 1997 Purchase Prize Award of Portland Art Museum, Oregon, USA
Awarded the Bronz Prize at the International Print Biennial in Beijing
Medal of the Purple Ribbon Award from the Ministry of Education and Culture, Japan
Awarded the Grand Prix at the 6th Novosibirsk Graphic Art Triennial
The catastrophic earthquake struck off the northeast
coast of Japan at 2:45 p.m. on March 11, 2011 changed my
feeling about art and the Art. Concrete realities, such as
natural disasters are mingling with my inner objective
thoughts and then divided into abstract concepts.
“RIU (Golden Legend)” which I exhibit this time was
created in 2009 seems to me to symbolize my feeling. The
Beauty comes from the great energy of Nature.
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Nao Kimura
Labyrinth. Installation with butterflies. Wax paper.
Publications
Fiber Art Now, USA [magazine]
Textil Art, Germany [magazine]
Como, Italy [newspaper]
Musashino Art University Junior College of Art and
Design
Solo exhibitions
2009”Labyrinth”, Tanada piece gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2011 ”Tweet”, Tanada Piece gallery, Kyoto, Japan
2013 ”Imagine”, Imagine gallery, Ashiya, Japan
”Calling”, Azabujuban gallery, Tokyo, Japan
”Innocence”, Shokokuji (Temple), Kyoto, Japan
I’ve been making the installation called Labyrinth by
using butterfly as motif since 2009.
I have made five installations, ”Labyrinth”, ”Luce”,
”Presage”, ”Calling” and ”Innocence” and each
installation have different theme, place, time and space.
This series of installations have different theme each
other but the basic theme is freedom.
In my art work, I’ve been seeking what is the meaning
to release human’s inner face and what is the style to
express that. The shadow has a very important meaning
in my artwork.
I want to ask the theme of freedom by competing shadow
and substance. My art work starts from focusing on the
subconscious of society.
For example, the base of Luce (2009) was the sadness
and the pain caused by the big earthquake we had in
that time, and I made this art work with the theme of
the release or the resurgence from them. I hope to create
some kind of resonant action for people in unconscious
level by using such non-direct way.
Selected group exhibitions
2009The Museum of Art&Craft, Itami, Hyōgo, Japan
2010 6th International Fiber Art Biennial, China
Miniarttextil, Como, Italy
Miniarttextil, Venezia, Italy
Inagutazione, Montrouge, France
2011 Kansai Creators, Japan
Scytha International Biennial, Ukraine
7th International Triennial of Contemporary
Textile Art, Belgium
Miniarttextil, Como, Italy
2012 Miniarttextil, Venazia, Italy
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art,
Japan
2013 Kyoto Art Fair, Japan
2014 Gamex, Mexico Embassy of Japan, Mexico
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Hanako Kobayashi
House of Clouds. Installation. Silk (10x7x9 cm/piece).
House of Clouds
I encountered floss silk or cocoons, the house of
silkworms.
Spinning threads from a pure clump and tracing across a
tree, I felt like I was tracing the trajectory of our existence
and memory.
When I draw a line like the trajectory of a rising lark
with floss silk yarn to connect heaven and earth, I can
imagine a lark in the sky and in turn, see myself from that
perspective.
This very thin trajectory is spun into yarn and clothing
to cover our bodies in daily life and becomes part of our
memory. It then gradually changes and appears in front
of me again as a “house” where people exist.
The “ House of clouds” is a “place” where I confirm who I
am and how I live.
I slowly unraveled a silk fascia like having a conversation
with my aunt.
When I spun the delicate fiber once again and entwined
it, it became a “House of clouds” that looks very much like
the small house where my aunt lived.
Our promise to see each other again will come true if I go
to that house.
1971 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1995 B.F.A., Musashino Art University
1997 M.F.A., Aichi prefectural University of Fine Arts & Music
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2000 Toki Art Space, Tokyo
Metal Art Museum, Hikarinotani, Chiba
Galerie 141, Nagoya
2001 Toki Art Space
2002 Okasan Securities branch lobby, Kanazawa
2003 AIR vol. 3, Toki Art Space
Galerie 141
2005 “Dream in the hollow”, Toki Art Space
2007 “A Trace of the forest”, Toki Art Space
2009 Media vol.6 “Dwelling of lark”, Toki Art Space
2012 In Her Case vol.4 “By the time of flowers”,
Toki Art Space
Selected Group Exhibitions
2002 International sculpture symposium, Otawara 2003 4th. International art workshop “Glass”, Pančevo, Serbia and Montenegro
2004 Project IN situ “-VISION-”, Pančevo, Serbia and Montenegro
2005 10th.Vogtlandische Holzbildhauersymposium, Vogtland, Germany
2007 Art × Niigata Nishiku de Art 2007, Niigata, Japan
2010 “Kyuka no kusuritubo”, Nagaoka
2011 Artists charity for the Tohoku Earthquake vol.1, Nagaoka, ’13 vol.3-’14 vol.4
2013 “Views of the three color”, Hibari-sya, Nagaoka
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Sonoko Mitsui
Release, 2012. Acrylic on cloth (220x290 cm, 330x400 cm).
2011
2012
2014
1988-92Nagoya University of Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2001 “Remise-Academy Brande International Workshop”, Brande, Denmark ‘09
2002 “Vilnius Pleneras 2002”, Vilnius, Lithuania
“Cité Internationale des Arts”, Paris, France
2011 The 26th Holbein Scholarship
2012 “Viborg International Billboard Painting Festival”, Viborg, Denmark
“Emerging Art from Japan & Around Scandinavia 2011”, Yokohama, Red Brick Warehouse, Kanagawa, Japan
“Billboard Painters Exhibition”, Galleri NB, Viborg, Denmark
Holbein Scholaship selection exhibition vol.2, Reijinsha Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Something inside of human mind”
This is what I hold as the theme of my work. Everything
we say does not show or tell everything we have in our
mind. What we say and what we do differ from what we
think and what we feel. It is always the hidden part of our
nature.
Memories or images of people remain as they have colors.
The impressions of the color leaves stronger image than
words or action. However, the impressions are unframed
or unhemmed, not like a picture.
Most of the time, the shape of the person is dim so as his
or her background. As time goes by, the details fade.
Only the color, as I mentioned before, is left in memories.
The color is the part I believe to be the　hidden part.
Time never stops, it continues to flow, and something
new comes and goes. But the piled color seems a kind of
vestiges of “be there” of the one’s memory.
Well-worn sheets, aged lace fabrics, well-used hemp sack
used to import or export beans, these things are the items
that have also spent times as we live. Sewing these items
together, and painting pigments over and over on it, I
am trying to express the hidden part of an accumulated
memory.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 “People around me“, The:artist:network, New York, USA
2006 “Pause my mind”, Studio Open, South Carolina, USA
2007 “Pause my mind“, Kitabiwako Hotel, Grazie Gallery, Shiga, Japan
2008 “One piece of”, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
2009 “It hangs. in other words it is connected”, Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo, Japan
2010 “Hanging from there”, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
2011 “Staying in the mind“, Gallery Kobayashi,
Tokyo, Japan
2012 “Release”, Galleria Finarte, Nagoya, Japan
2013 “Sonoko Mitsui Exhibition”, Kyokushou Museum, Gifu, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 “Pre-Exhibition Gifu Biennialof Contemporary Art Ikeda Sanroku 2010”, Kyokushou Museum, Gifu, Japan
Sponsor:
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Kyoko Nakahara
The winter forest.
Tapestry, wool (230x90 cm).
1987
The Winter Forest
A cold deep winter day
A ray of light stream into the winter forest
It melts everything slowly but surely
It comes to the winter forest
I draw most of my inspiration from nature.
In this work, I try to express the coldness of the winter
forest and the warmness of a ray of light.
Born in Japan
Textile Artist
Education
2008-11 Kawashima Textile School Kyoto, Japan
2010 HV skola Stockholm, Sweden 2010
Solo Exhibition
2011 ”Textile & Text”, Sol, Kyoto
Group Exhibitions
2009-13KTS Exhibition, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
2012 ”Jiyu Gakuen Art Exhibition”, Jiyu Gakuen, Tokyo
2013 ”A greeting from Sweden”, Keio Department Store, Shinjuku, Tokyo
2014 “Some no komichi”, Tokyo
”Tsumugu-Spinning”, Gallery Onden, Tokyo
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: kyokonakahara.jimdo.com
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Kei Nakamura
1974 Born in Yokohama, Japan
1996 Kobatake Koubou (Workshop) Certificate
Solo Exhibitions
2001 Kemono, Provence, Le Sion, France
2003 Float, Savoir Vivre, Tokyo Axis
2004 Border, Savoir Vivre, Tokyo Axis
2005 Narrator, Atelier-K Art Space, Yokohama
2006 Rise, Atelier-K Art Space, Yokohama
2008 Cocorone, Emon Photo Gallery, Tokyo
2009 23h, Gallery idm, Busan, Korea
2012 Rising till the End, Atelier-K Art Space, Yokohama
Group Exhibitions
1998 Stone sculpture to Nikaten( Nika), Exhibition received the Special Prize
2001 Gallery Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2002 Atelier-K Art Space, Yokohama
Contemporary Art Trial, Sagamioono
2003 Gallery R.Saint-Pierre (college plus project), Paris, France
2005 Orient 2005, Laos Embassy
Marine Gallery, Pusan, Korea
2006 42th Kanagawa Art Festival
2008 Commemorative for interchange 100 years of Yokohama and Sao Paulo
2009 YCC the exhibition of Contemporary Art, Yokohama
2010 The Japan Pen Club and contributed sculptures/
paintings for 76th international pen congress, Tokyo
Numb
… There is an absence of time or the sense that we have
in our actual lives. It is a world projecting a state of
Numbness (Insensitivity) as referred to in the title …
… This work was produced with the consideration of a
prolonged event constructing such a world.
The majority of this work takes the image of a dream;
however, it is not a portrayal of an actual dream. It
represents the process of how we enter a dream once we
fall into a state of slumber, a creation process of how a
dream is formed, merged, and layered. In order to create
a dream world, it starts with the first phase “sleep”, and
beds represent the device to stimulate sleep as well as to
create the land of wonders.
Numb. Mixed media (260x60x35).
www.keinakamura.com
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Kaori Sugai
Zaō. 2013. Acrylic, medium on canvas (91x73 cm).
1986
Born in Tokyo
2007-10 University for the Creative Arts, BA Fine Art, Canterbury, UK
Currently live and work in Tokyo
Art fairs
2011
Immagina Arte In Fiera, Italy
2012 Young Art Taipei, Taipei
2013
Worlds Apart Fair, Singapore
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Cityscapes, 4 years and 1 year, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Shinjuku
2013
Reconstructed Landscapes, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Shinjuku
Buoyancy, Satellites Art Lab, Jinbo-sho
2014 Obscure Images of Landscape, space2*3, Nihonbashi
Awards
2010 UK – Japan Art Award 2010, Dan Fern Award
2011
Tokyo Wonder Seeds 2011 Selected
2013
Act Art Awards Finalist
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 UK - Japan Art Award 2010, ROA Gallery, London
2011
Tokyo Wonder Seeds 2011, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Shibuya
Contemporary Art from Japan, Birkenfelds Gallery, Riga
EWWAA 2011, La Galleria, London
2012 Art Wave Exhibition vol. 11, Recto Verso Gallery, Kayaba-cho
2013
Season, The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo, Shinjuku
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Zaō
My work is based on personal memories, where I have
been and what I have seen of urban cityscape and
landscape, as an experience of my journey. When I have
visited somewhere I take a lot of photograph of building,
houses, cityscape and landscape, just likes tourist.
Because memories will be gradually fused and obscure
therefore I take a photograph to collect a visual image of
the past, which reminds me the phenomenon of the place
what I have felt and what I have seen on the place.
My work of representation is abstract images and halfforgotten memories of those places, which reinsert me in
the place where I had been locates in passing.
Michihide Touda
Cat brothers. Wood panel, acrylic paint, pen (53x65 cm).
2013
2014
1980 Born in Mikuni, Sakai, Fukui Prefecture
Moved to Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009 Game, Gallery Artra, Ishikawa
2010 Game‡U, Kapo gallery, Ishikawa
Game‡V, Coexist & Ouchi gallery, NY / Tokyo
2011 BBit, Rempah-Rempah, Ishikawa
2013 BBit2, Art-Imagine Gallery, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 Hokuriku Chunichi Art Exhibition, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, Ishikawa
2006 Wonder Seeds 2006, Tokyo Wonder Site2, Tokyo
2008 Z Independent Exhibition, 21th Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Ishikawa
2010 Kanazawa Tradition Exhibition, Kanazawa Art-
Gumi Gallery, Ishikawa
Raison d’etre of art ”exhibition” NO.2, Art-Imagine Gallery, Tokyo
Wonder Seeds 2010, Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2011 Art Coaster/How to share creative art coaster, Kapo gallery, Ishikawa
Kapo Second Anniversary Exhibition, Kapo gallery, Ishikawa
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Emerging Directors’ Art Fair: Ultra 006, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
8th Daikokuya Contemporary Art Competition, Daikokuya Salon, Tochigi
9th Tagboat Award, Thetre Cybird, Tokyo
These days, an expression of TV game has become richer
than before and the graphic has become precise and real
that it has a strong resemblance to a photography.
But TV game of 30 years ago had tacky use of colors by
the color number limit and unrefined deformation of dots
which now give us a fresh image and also bring us back
the fond memories.
In my childhood, TV games such as Super Mario Brothers
and Tetris were a big trend and I was one of them who
were engaged in the play.
Basing on the memories of the TV games I played with
back then, I am portraying the screen that was unable to
be seen in any stage of the game.
The iconography that was not programmed in the game
is a new stage exceeding the program.
I will continue to search my curiosity for a desire of
portraying the unknown new stage.
Taeko Ukon
The Shore of Vision – The People hanging around. Japanese paper, powder shell, Japanese colors, gauze, bamboo stick, fluorescent lamp (200x70x45 cm).
Public Collections
Hisa Layer, Kranj, Slovenia
1954 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Solo exhibitions
2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 Ginza, Tokyo
The Shore of Vision – The People hanging around
I tend to assume we, human beings, live interdependently,
resonating and giving a sympathy to each other. Such
an instinctive feeling seems to be originated from the
primordial area of our brain, which is the domain located
beyond our, so-called, intellect.
I would like to present this work as a device which shall
induce you to the entrance to the very intuitive world.
I hope you will give it a try and notice it.
We, human beings, must live more calmly and peacefully
if we could indeed realize that even unknown people are
familiar existence which we can share affinity with.
Group Exhibitions
2008 The Kakejiku Contemporary Art Exhibition from Japan, National Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
2009 Yokohama opening of a port Independans Exhibition, Yokohama, Kanagawa
2010 Contemporary Art from Japan, Södertälje konsthall, Sweden
No War Exhibition, the Citizens Kanagawa Hall Gallery
2011 Cultural exchange week – Slovenia and Japan in Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Contemporary Art from Sweden, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama, Japan
2013 Artists in residence, Hisa Layer, Kranj, Slovenia
International Fine Art Festival Kranj, Kranj, Slovenia
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Toshiko Watanabe
Message from Faraway, 2012. Current II. Japanese paper, Japanese paints, silver paper
(450x94 cm, 500x94 cm, 520x94 cm, 620x94 cm).
2013
Artists in residence, Hisa layer, Kranj, Slovenia
2014 Two Person’s Show with Kerstin Svanberg ”Sorrow and Hope”, Gallery Hinoki plus, Ginza, Tokyo
1947
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Toshiko has been in Tokyo, Bangkok, Hamburg, and
Chicago during her young age.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1999, 2000
Gallery Natsuka, Ginza, Tokyo
2001, 2003, 2005 Gallery Kobayashi, Ginza, Tokyo
2005, 2006, 2010 Tea Cottage at Tokyo National Museum, Ueno, Tokyo
2007, 2009, 2012 Gallery Kaze, Ginza, Tokyo
Nature and Contingency – these are what I believe most
important along with my attitude toward artworks.
There are some important factors for me when I face my
artworks.
The first factor is the materials. They are the ones we
use for Japanese painting, that our ancestors have been
used for hundreds of years; such as Indian ink, Japanese
paints, and silver paper.
The second factor is the method. I drip ink and paints on
paper. I use the method “dripping” because I do not prefer
my consciousness reflect my works directly. It might not
be possible all my consciousness is vanished away. But I
want least of it will appear on my works.
The third factor is the place. I work outside in my small
yard under a cherry tree and an apricot tree. Sometimes
petals of flowers, the autumn leaves, sometimes sunshine,
comfortable or hot, sometimes cool wind, cold air –
hoping all these natural phenomena might affect and
reflect in my art works.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 “Kakejiku –Japanese Contemporary Art”, National Foreign Art Museum, Riga, Latvia
2010 “Contemporary Art from Japan”, Södertälje konsthall, Sweden
2011
“Cultural exchange week – Slovenia and Japan in Stockholm”, Sweden
2006, 2008, 2011“CAF. N Exhibition”, Saitama Contemporary Museum, Saitama
2012 “Contemporary Art from Sweden”, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
Two Persons’ Show with Lisa Papi “Global Marks”, Western Wyoming Community College, Wyoming, USA
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Yuki Yanada
Floating petals in the shallows (145,5x336 cm).
1978
2003
2005
Floating petals in the shallows
The waterside and the flow of water are considered as
a borderline between this world and the other world in
Buddhism. “Hana-ikada” expresses the scene that petals
float in the shallows after the cherry blossoms are gone,
that is, a bridge between two worlds. It had been used as
a decoration in the mausoleum and sometimes at the spot
related with the death in medieval Japan.
However having the image such as these, I don’t draw the
floating petals itself. I got an inspiration from its design
and thought about the flow strewn with petals and the
borderline between two worlds while making this work.
It’s not specific scenery but my imagined scenery.
Born in Tokyo
Graduated Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting, Plastic Art section
Graduated Musashino Art University, Master degree of Fine Art Painting, Oil Painting course
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2002 Ginza Forest Gallery, Tokyo
2004 Ginza Forest Gallery, Tokyo
2006-08 Ginza Forest Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Ginza Forest Gallery, Tokyo
2011-13 Solo Exhibition at Akane Gallery, Tokyo
Group Exhibitions
2013
Liberal Arts Association Exhibition (received the Rookie of the Year Award)
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Nana Yorifuji
The Sky, 2013. Oil on fabric and canvas (130x162 cm).
2004 Message 2004, Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2005 Message 2005, Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2007 Gift Exhibition, Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
2011
Tama Art University, Kanagawa Exhibition, Kanagawa
”Wrap Lap Rap”, Kanagawa
2012 Tama Art University, Kanagawa Exhibition, Kanagawa
Intellectual Exhibition, Gallery Q, Tokyo
2013
Tama Art University, Kanagawa Exhibition, Kanagawa
Japan Contemporary Scroll Exhibition, Vilnius, Lithuania
1965
Born in Tokyo
1988
graduated from Tama Art University, oil painting
Solo exhibitions
1994
Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
1996-99Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2000-04Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
2003 Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo
2006 Gallery Yamaguchi, Tokyo
2007-14 Gallery T, Kanagawa
2010 Gallery YOKO, Kanagawa
2010-11 Gallery CN, Kanagawa
2011
Hap Space, Tokyo
Odakyu Department Store, Kanagawa
Erarta Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
Group
1996
2003
The Sky
I imagine that the boy sees the sky.
How does he feel the sky?
I collage his clothes on the canvas.
Exhibitions
Voca Exhibition ’96, Tokyo
Gallery Natsuka b.p, Tokyo
Message 2003, Gallery Kobayashi, Tokyo
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Gallari Kretsen / Saltskog gård:
Susumu Horie
Shigeru Idei
Hitomi Iwano
Yukiko Kitagawa
Akiko Kondo
Shizuko Ono
Shogo Miyasaka
Taeko Nishi
Shungo Shimizu
Taeko Ukon
Toshiko Watanabe
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Susumu Horie
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Mugen. Mixed media on a paper cube.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1978, 1986, 1990 Hakuyo Gallery, Mie
1981 Yakobu Gallery, Tokyo
1984 Hanshin Department Store, Osaka
1985, 1988, 1990, 1993 Kinokuniya Gallery, Tokyo
1989, 1991 Futaba Gallery, Tokyo,
1992, 1994Plaza Gallery, Tokyo　1998, 2002, 2006 Muramatsu Gallery, Tokyo　2000, 2004, 2007 O Gallery, Tokyo
2003 Modan Art Museum, Saitama
2008 Chibagin Art Gallery, Tokyo
2012 Gallery Hiniki B•C , Tokyo
1990-95Exhibition, Gallery Siba Art, Tokyo
1994 Yasuisho Exhibition, Yurakucho Art Forum, Tokyo
2003 Gant Art Exhibition, Beigium
2004 Sanninten, Galley Kaze, Tokyo
2004-12Art Shower, Citizen Gallery, Yokohama
2009 Yoninten, Shirota Gallery, Tokyo
2010 Contemporary Art from Japan, Södertälje konsthall, Sweden
2011 Wrap Lap Rap, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
Svensk-Slovensk-Japansk Kulturvecka, Kulturfyren, Stockholm
2012 Contemporary Art from Sweden, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
Selected Group Exhibitions
1975-2014 Exhibition of Kindai Artists Association, Tokyo Museum, Tokyo　1987 National Des Beaux Art, France
Birth disappearance, construction collapse.
The law of the nature which continues infinitely.
1947 Born in Yamaguchi / Japan
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Hitomi Iwano
Billion Lights. Acrylic, cloth, styrene foam on wood panel (100x164x4 cm).
2011 “Standing here”, Hitomi Iwano and Angelina Gemert exhibition, Tokyo
2011 “Wrap Lap Rap”, Yokohama Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
2011 “Prayer For Tsunami Victims”, Galleri ArtLab, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 “Contemporary Art from Sweden”, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
2013 “Folk Art Exhibition”, Sabah Art Gallery, Malaysia
1979 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2003 Graduated from the Painting Major of Tokyo Zokei University
Solo Exhibitions
2002 Key gallery, Tokyo
2003 Tokyo Art Factory, Tokyo
2004-05 Lapin Et Halot, Tokyo
2005 Miyashin gallery, Miyagi
Ono gallery II (B1, 1F), Tokyo
2006 Yoshidate House, Yokohama
Futaba gallery, Tokyo
2007 Butterfly, Tokyo
Crocs Aoyama shop, Tokyo
2009 Haneda airport, All Nippon Airways north lounge, Tokyo
2006, 2013, 2014 Gallery Mona, Tokyo
I use the technique called ”Kimekomi”, a Japanese traditional
way to insert cloth into linear carvings. After I paste the
cloth up on the board using the ”Kimekomi”, I paint with
acrylic.
Flowing clouds, rain drops, bubbles in water, scattering
petals, blink of firefly, way back in the twilight, and sweet
old scene …
These beautiful elements I portray never promise to stay
in the same shape or place for the next instant.
That’s why I want to carve the moment before they
disappear.
Group Exhibitions
2006 ”7 Japanese artists”, Gallery 1, Uppsala, Sweden
2008-10 ”Busan International Environment Art Festival”, Busan, Korea
2010 “Contemporary Art from Japan”, Södertälje konsthall, Sweden
http://kimekomiworks.jp/
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Yukiko Kitagawa
Graduated from the Craft Course of Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts.
1991–Supervisor of the create classes for children
2011–Lecturer, Tokyo City university Department of Child and Human Sciences
Miniature exhibition, Gallery Pause Textile Art, Kagurazaka, Tokyo
Prayer For Tsunami Victims, Gallery ArtLab, Stockholm, Sweden
2013 Forest Troll, international open-air exhibition, Tokyo
”Hundred Flowers Hyakuiki”, Textile Art Miniature Exhibition, Gallery 5610
Exhibitions
2004 “SJP Exhibition”, Embassy of Sweden, (selected)
2006 “A New Asian Jump” Embassy of Japan, Silk Gallery in Seoul, South Korea.
“Japan Meets Linnaeus”, The Botanical Garden in Uppsala, Sweden (selected)
2007 “International Art Festival Sydney 07”, Sydney, Australia
”Art Plant Open Air Exhibition”, Carl Von Linne 300th Anniversary
”Green”, SJP Exhibition, Fuchu Art Museum.
“Fiber Art Show In Busan”, Gallery Craft Story, Busan, South Korea
2008 ”One’s inner thought”, solo exhibition, Gallery Kleiner Garten, Kawagoe, Saitama
”Blue”, SJP Exhibition, Kyoto city Art Museum.
2010 “Korea & Japan Color & Form Exhibition”, Busan Citizen Hall, Busan, South Korea.
Textile Art Miniature Exhibition Hyakasaisai, Roof Gallery, Tamagawa, Takashimaya SC
2011 ”Feel the Sound of the Message”, solo exhibition, Gallery Brocken, Tokyo
Independants Yokohama for all genre of Art, BankArt Studio MYK, Yokohama
”Contemporary Art Exhibition Genpei Yashima”, Gallery Accostage, Kagawa
The power of ART, Gallery Soul Art Space, Busan, South Korea
”Wrap Lap Rap”, Sweden and Japan art exchange program, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
”Svensk-Slovensk-Japansk Kulturvecka”, Stockholm, Sweden
2012 Contemporary Art from Sweden, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
”Scene in the mind”, solo exhibition, Sapporo Shioya Gallery
Thoughts, Lights, Unforgettable the moment, Feeling
invisible.
I express memories of the various sounds in my heart in
creating works of fiber art.
I dyed organza cloth, creating
a sense of transparency overlapping colors of light that
can be layered collage, and on the stitch like the Sashiko.
I express the two-dimensional works and the threedimensional works and installations.
I’ve made a lot of work on the theme of sound in such a
way that, when I think, I have come to live with music and
art since childhood …
Feel the importance of the five senses sensory education, I
have done a workshop which is a combination of art and
music.
Title of the work of this photo, ”Mind’s eye” # 1, # 2. I
made a form in collaboration with music by Kensuke
Yamauchi, a musician …
It makes the sound by overlapping sound with the analog
sound and a sense of nature. It is the creation of sound
with the originality.
In order to express that the sound is a gentle warmth like
sunshine filtering through foliage in colors of winter with
little sense, he imagined a Sweden you have not yet seen,
sun landscape of the city and people of Sweden.
As a new work , I will showcase the production in it’s
collaboration with the song titled the ”Sweden” along
with the work ”Mind’s eye” # 1 and # 2
http://yukiko-k.com
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GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Mind’s eye #1 and #2. Fabric.
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Akiko Kondo
Fabrics, detail (200x100 cm).
Selected Group exhibitions
2010 Contemporary Art From Japan, Södertälje, Sweden
2012 Contemporary Art From Sweden, Yokohama, Japan
2014 ”No war, no nukes”, Kyoto Art Exhibition for Peace, Kyoto
2014-15 Exhibition “No war”, Yokohama, Japan
1948 Born in Niigata prefecture
Graduated from Waseda University, acquired Master
degree of Russian Literature
Studied art at The Glassel School of Art, Houston, Texas,
USA
Solo exhibitions
2009, 2006, 2003 Chuwa Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
2011 Gallery Brocken, Musashikoganei, Tokyo
2013, 2006, 2005, 2003 Gallery Gen, Ginza, Tokyo
2014, 2012, 2010 Gallery Satellite, Paris, France
NO NUKES!
We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
– D. H. Lawrence –
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Shogo Miyasaka
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Sewed Scene 001, 2014. Dyeing cloth (80x40x3,5 cm).
Awarded Prize
2004 TDK Design prizes ”Free Art Free”
The SJP Osaka prize ”SJP Osaka international art exhibition”
2010 The grand prize ”Contemporary textile competition 2010”
1968 Born in Hokkaido, Japan
1993 Graduated from Tama Art University of Textile Design
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1998 Eiko Ohara Gallery, Tokyo
2000 Harajuku Gallery, Tokyo
2002 Sapporo Municipal Museum Gallery, Hokkaido
2003 Nc Art Gallery, Tokyo
2006 Roof, Tokyo
2011 Gallery Space Pause, Tokyo
2013 Lin, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 “Mix Art Exhibition”, Art Imagine Gallery, Tokyo
“SJP2008 Concerning Blue Now”, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto
2011 “Wrap Lap Rap”, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
2012 “Art Wave Exhibition vol.2”, Recto Verso Gallery, Tokyo
“6th 100 artists exhibition in Italy”, Sala dei Templari, Italy
“Contemporary Art from Sweden”, Red Brick Warehouse, Yokohama
2013 “Contemporary Fiber Art II”, Kaneko Art Tokyo, Tokyo
“Textile art miniature 3”, The Museum of Arts & Crafts Itami, Hyogo; Gallery 5610, Tokyo
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I hope people feel a kind of atmosphere or an ambiance.
There are various scenes in the life of people.
For example, joy full of happy memories and love, or
sad memories having lost beloved ones. Our feelings
unconsciously take vague form and scenery with colors
in our memories that there would have been there.
The scenery, as time passes, connecting fragmentary
forms and colors, it remains in our brain as the scenery
included with the feelings at each moments.
My work is basically dyeing cloth. I express it by the
combination of wood, thread and resin. I am especially
interested in the touch of expression when these different
materials are mixed.
My drawings are of concrete elements, at the same time
of abstract form. The circle is the form to symbolize
nature.
www.miyasaka-shogo.com
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Taeko Nishi
Life and Light in the Universe. Metal, acrylic and plastic resin (50x40x4 cm / piece).
Exhibitions
1984 Saitama prefecture art exhibition, Saitama
2003 Shinkaijyusya exhibition, Tokyo
2009 Spring box art show, Tokyo
2011 Wrap Lap Rap, Yokohama
2012 Contemporary Art from Sweden, Yokohama
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Shizuko Ono
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Melody from the Universe. (73x91 cm).
Graduated from Sophia University Tokyo,
Faculty of Literature
Exhibitions:
1995 ”The Laureates Exhibition of the 12th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition“, Gallery Yoshii, Paris and Tokyo
1999 ”Solo Exhibition”, Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, USA
2000 Participated in the project ”The Year of Japan in Germany”, Gallery CO10
2002 ”Solo exhibition for The 40th Anniversary of Japanese Garden”, Japanese Garden, Portland, Oregon, USA
2006 ”Japan Meets Carl von Linnaeus”, The Botanical Garden, Uppsala University and Bror Hjorths Hus, Uppsala, Sweden.
2007 ”Art Plant Exhibition”, Sayama, Japan
2008 ”A Wonderful World Art Festival”, Gallery Goda, Alkmaar, Netherland
2010 ”Contemporary Art from Japan”, Södertälje konsthall, Sweden
2014 ”Ikebana and Contemporary Plant Art”, Orangery in the Botanical Garden of Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Award
“Grand Prize Exhibition“, The 12th Ueno Royal Museum,
Japan
Public Collection
1994 Ueno Royal Museum, Japan
Melody from Univers
Although the living things are small specks in the Cosmos,
in split second they exist .
Short lives in the long darkness.
A flower is shining in the mysterious darkness.
The mysterious profundity makes me think of Cosmic
phenomena like the Big Bang.
E-mail; [email protected]
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Shungo Shimizu
Soloexhibition 2014.
1993 Graduated from School of Visual Arts, New York City, U.S.A. (B.F.A. in Fine Arts)
We humans are... within a state of absolute existence
within a limited time; a part of nature, and the past
could be the future; everything is linked and echoed
through each relation at a particular moment.
My works are not only two-dimensional works but also
three-dimensional works or installations, such as a
present fossil linking ancient times and the future, a
snow scene or subtle traces in nothing, frosted glasses
and many kinds of light boxes using acrylic and mixed
media; you could see some of them in the show.
The thin layers overlapped numerous traces or images
between the destructive and constructive. My curiosity
is to see something new and the fractal whole world
like a timeless phase or before the beginning and after
the end, in the thin layer, between the five senses, with
physical feeling and phenomenon, without any attempts
at logical explanations. It might be the invisible light
beyond the objects.
… The spreading wonder world beyond through a pinhole
An absolute view links all of us reflected in each other
By the thousands of light and shadow
In the thousands of sorrow and joy.
We might get the substance by following its shadow. We
could get the infinite light by dreaming of an unforeseen
you. I may be trying to feel the stars beyond the blue sky
changing between shadows and light. In short, I am
trying … while living … to be born again. It may be the
beginning of the next something else that can link me
and all the others or immortal anonimity beyond the
space-time.
Solo Exhibitions
2001 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. Permanent Collections
2002 Sudo Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan,
Okanoyama Museum of Art, Nishiwaki, Japan
Tokyo Art Factory, Tokyo, Japan,
Kitano Pocket Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan
2003 Gusto House, Kobe, Japan
2004 Ono Gallery, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan
2004-06Makii Masaru Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan,
2005 Chiba Bank Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Gallery Mona, Tokyo, Japan
2005, 2007, 2011 Gallery Circus Circus, Kobe, Japan
2011 Garelly Barco, Tokyo, Japan
Amarin cafe, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
2012 Gallery Mona, Tokyo, Japan
2014 Tsugi-no Curve, Tokyo, Japan
Group exhibitions
USA, Sweden, South Korea, China, Japan and more...
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Shigeru Idei (for statement and CV see page 7)
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Garden of the wonder. Japanese ink, watercolor, waterproofing pen, charcoal,
oil painting on Japanese paper (173x187 cm).
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Taeko Ukon (for statement and CV see page 18)
The Shore of Vision – The People hanging around. Japanese paper, India ink, tin powder, silver leaf, gauze, copper wire (150x50x35 cm).
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Toshiko Watanabe (for statement and CV see page 19)
GALLERI KRETSEN / SALTSKOG GÅRD
Message from Faraway 2012, Everlasting Current.
From an Exhibition ”Global Marks” at Wyoming Community, USA.
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Katalogredaktör: Kristina Möller
Layout: Kjell Carlsson
Tryck: Trosa tryckeri, Trosa
Curatorer:Södertälje konsthall, Kristina Möller
Galleri Kretsen, Kersti Rågfelt Strandberg
Saltskog gård, Göran Pettersson
Intendent/konstpedagog: Maarit Nilsson Polet
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I samarbete med Södertälje Konstnärskrets
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ISBN 978-91-980263-5-1
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