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2012. 5. 11th（fri.） - 5. 26th（sat.）
The Wonderland of Ceramic Art
Haruka Akiyama, Naoki Nomura
TKG Ceramics (Kyoto)
Creating shapes with clay, glazing, and baking in a kiln. Ceramic has unique restrictions that are different from other three-dimensional art forms. Haruka Akiyama and Naoki Nomura choose these “restrictions” as indispensable elements to express their personal views.
2012. 4. 21st（sat.） - 6. 2nd（sat.）
Nana Funo
Vessel That Never Leaks
Tomio Koyama Gallery 7th floor
Inspirations fly away if not being kept by a pen or a brush. To hold it, one needs a receiver, like a vessel. Funo describes this in a conversation with an artist:
If I don’t keep the things that are floating in drawing or paining, they will disappear. Nothing left. It feels like trying to scoop water with hands in a desert. Drips will soon disappear in the dry sand…I feel that I have always been looking for firm vessel that never leaks and keep things immediately.
The exhibition presents various paintings from large one over 5 m to small pieces of 20 x 20cm. Also the drawing notebooks described above, namely “vessel that never leaks”, will be also on the view for the first time at the exhibition.
2012. 4. 21st（sat.） - 6. 2nd（sat.）
Mika Ninagawa
PLANT A TREE
Tomio Koyama Gallery 6th floor
This exhibition presents works from Mika Ninagawa’s photo book PLANT A TREE, published in 2011. The book (a limited edition of 700, numbered) is designed and edited by Satoshi Machiguchi, who also designed Ninagawa’s noir (2010), and is known for 40＋1 PHOTOGRAPHERS PIN-UP (1995), which covers 40 photographers of his generation. Ninagawa usually gets involved in the editing process, but for the first time she left everything to Machiguchi.
In the series Ninagawa photographed cherry blossoms bloomed along Meguro river for only 3 hours one day in 2010. She captured flower petals falling, floating, and drifting away on the dark surface of the river. It gives a feeling of looking at them through tears, and wrings the viewer’s heart with the sense of fragility and conflict.
2012. 4. 13th（fri.） - 5. 23rd（wed.）
Midori Sato
My Precious Room
TKG Editions Kyoto
In this exhibition, the space will be turned into “a room with a closet”, presenting paintings of a large closet and carpets, decorative patters of tiles, laces and embroidery that the artist found in Paris, as well as paintings of the artist’s favorite objects. Also included are the small paintings in the frames that she found in flea markets.