Tomio Koyama Gallery Tokyo - Kyoto | TKG Editions　Ginza - Kyoto

» Introduction:

Miyake's art works are drawings, sculptures and performances and any other art forms that construct one universe. His most typical style of art can be represented cutout pieces which Miyake draws girls and other forms on the cardboard or thin wooden board. Also performance is the characteristic one that he puts handmade costumes on and having performance such as live drawing.
Typical motif used in his earlier works is that the girl called "Sweet-san". Horizontally long face with small feature and extremely short body with lanky limbs looks mirthful and gives us an optimistic impression, even if they have sad appearance. Recently, idea of sweetness gains popularity among especially Japanese contemporary art. But the idea of sweetness for Miyake is just if things look positive.
His Sweet-san series is the basic form of the idea of sweetness. Since then, his Sweet-san has been changing it own form. For instance, Sweet-san puts motif of Colosseo on her head in an exhibition in Bologna, Sweet-san transforms herself to an alien in an exhibition in Germany, and Sweet-san becomes a girl who dances with a bear to the song called "Mori no Kuma-san" in an exhibition in New Zealand.

» Concept:

This time, Miyake has chosen the subject of ancient Egyptian gods. There will be a large scale of works, such as a 4-meter height huge sculpture, around 8-meter height drawing, and his first attempt- a series of paintings.

» Artist Biography:

Shintaro Miyake was born in 1970, Tokyo. He has graduated from Tama Art University(Department of Fine Art, Painting Department Print Major) in 1996. He has been working based on Tokyo.
His selected solo shows are "Innocy's House" (Museum Gugging, Art/Brut Center Gugging、Vienna, 2007), "Beaver no Seikatsu"（Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006）, and group shows are "NEOTENY JAPAN　-Takahashi's Collection-" （KIRISHIMA OPEN-AIR MUSEUM, Kagoshima, 2008）, "Berlin - Tokyo / Tokyo - Berlin"（Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, 2006）,　and "Naoshima Standard 2"（old barbershop, Naoshima, Kagawa, 2006）. This will be his third solo show with Tomio Koyama Gallery, after 3 years since the second 2005 show.