Month: November 2023

Ai Natori

Photo: KYOTARO HAYASHI

• English
• 日本語
• 中文

 

Profile

Ai Natori

Born in Saga, Japan
Degree in Imaging Arts and Sciences, Musashino Art University

Studied painting from childhood under Isao Noda, a painter of the Action Art Association. Seeking a more abstract method of expression, she entered the Department of Imaging Arts at Musashino Art University, where she expanded her field of expression to VJ work, installation, and performance. In the spring of 2011, she went back to her roots and started working with drawings again.

Selected Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2024″Hear the Silence“, biscuit gallery karuizawa, Karuizawa,Nagano
2023
“Blueness”, +D.A.Y.O.N.E GALLERY, Tokyo
2019
“BLUENESS”, UYart Gallery, Taichung

Group exhibitions
2023
“L0-Fi Diversity”, +DA.YO.NE.GALLERY, Tokyo
2019
“Japanese Artist Exhibition”, Google Office Taipei, Taipei

Art Fairs
MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2023
ART TAIPEI 2023
FOCUS ART FAIR PARIS 2022

Awards

2015
Newcomer Award at YOUNG ART TAIPEI
2014
KATHARINE HAMNETT LAB DESIGN AWARD

Concept

Blue is the color of the sea which is the origin of the creature. On the other hand it’s also the color of the death which lost the temperature. That it can be an image which disagrees seems to be an expression of a concept that life and death include each. That seems to be a sign which mixes unstably in order for 2 of something sometimes to become one and a sense in the moment which keeps changing. Many people are charmed by this color and try sublimation of various feeling including me so, and I think they may find sublimation of various feeling again. After earthquake disaster in 2011, sense in the moment which was being kept vaguely became clear for me. The world through which one lives so came to feel harder, more beautiful. I draw the environment, the strength of the person, me, the other ones and the moment which mixes unstably and beauty through the blue world.

https://www.instagram.com/aina_to/

• English
• 日本語
• 中文

biscuit gallery (Shibuya, Tokyo), a commercial contemporary art gallery on Shoto Bunkamura Street in Shibuya, is pleased to announce Miyu Yamada’s solo exhibition, “Dawn + Drawn.”

The exhibition will be on view from Thursday, November 23 to Sunday, December 10, 2023.

An opening party will take place on the November 23 (Thursday – national holiday) from 15:00 to 19:00.

This marks Yamada’s first solo exhibition at biscuit gallery, wherein she utilizes all three of its floors. Through new works and an innovative design plan, many new aspects of Miyu Yamada as an emerging artist will be made visible.

Text by the Artist

In the height of the summer heat wave, the search for coolness and quiet began at sundown and sometimes lasted until the early morning hours. The exhibition focuses on works created up to the time when the sky begins to change color just a little after the dawn of a night of progress. 

When I look back on my memories of sand, which I work with as one of my mediums, I remember seeing sand in a flowerpot at my parents’ house when I was a small child. A flowerpot is a small thing, but the tiny world seen from the city started my interest in nature.

The drawings that I draw on the beach near my studio every day become blurred or disappear the next day due to wind, rain, or the ebb and flow of the tide. Sand, which does not retain the same shape, is perceived as a simple, undefined, and ambiguous entity. Although sand is so light and small that it quickly rises to the surface, its feel when it is placed on the canvas and its rough texture when mixed with paint is a definite resistance that arouses a primordial desire to paint.

Recently, I have changed my mindset from creating works (like objects) to “painting” them. This is why I took the two words “dawn” and “draw” and titled the exhibition “Dawn + Drawn.”

I hope you will take the time to enjoy it.

Miyu Yamada

available works

Artist Profile

Miyu Yamada

Miyu Yamada creates works which project the beings which live between the gaps of the currents of time periods and society. She uses materials like soil as an intermediate existence between the city and nature, capturing the characteristic untethered, floating feeling and evasiveness of the modern person.

She develops a series of works based on drawings with raised lines and works using pastels. The creatures that appear in her works are depicted as the viewers themselves as well as Yamada herself as she looks at the rapidly changing times and intersecting societies.

 

Information

Miyu Yamada
“Dawn + Drawn”

Location: biscuit gallery 1-3F
Dates: Thursday, November 23 – Sunday, December 10, 2023
Time: 13:00 – 19:00 *Closed Monday – Wednesday
Free Admission
Sponsored by biscuit gallery

Opening Reception: 15:00 – 19:00, Thursday, November 23

• English
• 日本語
• 中文

Sawako Nasu, represented by biscuit gallery, is currently participating in two exhibitions: “GENE – Genes That Transcend Generations – Akira Nakashima & Sawako Nasu” (Gallery Hana) and “Draw Lines & Shapes in My Maps” (Taka Ishii Gallery Maebashi).

“GENE – Genes That Transcend Generations – Akira Nakashima & Sawako Nasu”
Gallery Hana

Dates: Saturday, November 18 – Saturday, December 9, 2023
Location: Gallery Hana
(B1, 2F, 7F, Minami Azabu 5-1-4, Minato-ku, Tokyo)
Gallery Talk Event: Saturday, Nov 25, 15:00-16:30
(Free Admission, capacity of 30 people)
Artists: Akira Nakashima, Sawako Nasu
Contact: gallery-hana＠nifty.com / 070-1470-1187

 

“Draw Lines & Shapes in My Maps”
Taka Ishii Gallery Maebashi

Dates: Sunday, November 19 –  Thursday, December 28, 2023
Location: Taka Ishii Gallery Maebashi
(Maebashi Galleria 1F, Chiyodamachi 5-9-1, Gunma)
Artist Talk Event: Sunday, Nov 19, 15:00 – 16:00
Opening Reception: Sunday, Nov 19, 17:30 – 19:30
Artists: Ayaka Endo, GORILLA PARK, Hal Matsuda,
Iori Nagashima, Sawako Nasu, Kohei Yamada
Details: https://www.takaishiigallery.com/en/archives/36802/

 

 

 

Yulala Mori

• English
• 日本語
• 中文

 

Profile

Yulala Mori

1996　Born in Tokyo
2020　BFA in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts
2022　MFA in Tokyo University of the Arts

Selected Exhibitions

2024
Solo Exhibition“TRUE ROMANCE”,biscuit gallery Tokyo

2023
Group show “Intersection”, Ginza T-SITE ATRIUM, Tokyo

Art Fair

2023
ART FAIR TOKYO 2023

Concept

Working mainly in oil and watercolor, Mori also creates three-dimensional works, large-scale neon tube art, and other free forms of expression.

Inspired by romantic movies, music, art, books, people, nature, and the universe, she imagines romantic stories with a spirit of respect and pure love, and expresses them as art with a unique sense of color. She aims to create the best works of art every day.

She also presides over the “World Peace Project,” which believes that the world would be a more enjoyable place if it were filled with romantic art and people, and is responsible for the graphics for WACKO MARIA and the artwork inside the flagship store PARADISE TOKYO, playing an important role in reflecting the brand’s worldview in a more romantic way.

https://www.instagram.com/yulalamori/

Available Works