"MEET YOUR ART AIR ×HANKYU" will be held at Hankyu Men's Tokyo from Wednesday, October 2nd to Tuesday, October 8th! As an exhibition just before the opening of "MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2024"
"MEET YOUR ART AIR × HANKYU", which will be held at Hankyu Men's Tokyo, is a project to commemorate the "MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2024 "NEW ERA" which will be held in Tennoz, Tokyo from Friday, October 11th to Monday, October 14th, 2024 (national holiday).
This exhibition will display and sell works by nine artists selected together with Hankyu Men's Tokyo from among the artists who collaborated with the third MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL this year, as well as showcasing video interviews with the artists. In addition, an opening reception will be held on the first day, Wednesday, October 2nd, from 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
■MEET YOUR ART F AIR ×HANKYU
Exhibiting artists:
Kazuki Umezawa, Osamu Ohno, Kenta Kawabata, Takeo Takao, Shinnosuke Tojo, Masayoshi Nojo, Futoshi Hatayama, Rintaro Fuse, and Yan2
Date: October 2, 2024 (Wednesday) - October 8, 2024 (Tuesday)
Hours: Weekdays 12:00-20:00 Saturdays, Sundays and holidays 11:00-20:00 *Closed at 18:00 on the final day, October 8th (Tuesday)
Admission: Free, no reservation required
Venue: Hankyu Men's Tokyo 1F MAIN BASE
HP URL: https://web.hh-online.jp/hankyu-mens/contents/tokyo/
Related URL: https://avex.jp/meetyourart/festival/
Planning: MEET YOUR ART
Organized by: Hankyu Men's Tokyo
＜OPENING RECEPTION supported by Fukugiri＞
Date: Wednesday, October 2nd, 18:30-20:00
Venue: Hankyu Men's Tokyo 1F MAIN BASE
Admission: Free
*Guests attending on the day will be offered Fukukiri's "Awa" as a welcome drink.
[About the exhibiting artists]
Kazuki Umezawa
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1985. Graduated from Musashino Art University's Department of Film and New Media in 2008.
He reconstructs images scattered across the internet and expresses the sensation of being confronted with an overwhelming amount of information on a chaotic screen. He belongs to CASHI.
Major exhibitions include "Beyond the Windows" (NADiff a/p/a/r/t / Tokyo) and "Everlasting Particle CORE" (HARMONY ART G ALL ERY / Shanghai, 2023), "Black Dreams" (CASHI, Tokyo, 2020), and "Image, Aroundscape, Particle" (RICOH ART G ALL 2021 ERY / Tokyo), 2019 "100 Years of Weavers: Modern and Contemporary Art in a Moving Japan" (Tokyo, Museum of Contemporary Art), "Tokyo Pop Underground" (Jeffrey Dyche Gallery, Los Angeles, New York), 2018 "Hyper Landscape Kazuki Umezawa× Taku Obata" (Watari Museum of Art, Tokyo), etc. He has had many solo and group exhibitions. It is in the collections of the Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, etc.
Osamu Ohno
Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1981. Studied sculpture expression at Kyushu Sangyo University and graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School. During his time at university, he mainly studied sculpture using stone as a material, and created works with a sense of tension that shake up the current state of sculpture, using motifs that are influenced by academic forms and music. His three-dimensional works are characterized by their importance of the "impulse" that arises from within, and while using artificial materials such as waste materials and concrete, they maintain their strength as "things" that are never frivolous. In his bricolage production style, which he arrived at during his two and a half years in New York from 2012, he confronts materials while repeatedly "destroying and repairing" them, and explores the beauty of form contained in the passage of time. In November 2023, ACA (Avex Creator Agency) opened ALL in Nishi-Azabu, Tokyo, and will present his first solo exhibition [VERSE].
Kenta Kawabata
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1994. Completed the master's course at Tokyo University of the Arts.
He creates paintings and sculptures that consider the gaps that seem to indirectly transmit information between people, such as modern visual experiences and senses, the symbolization of individuals, and the multi-layering of communication with people due to the spread of the Internet. His work was added to the collection of the University Art Museum of Tokyo University of the Arts in 2019. He is a recipient of the O Memorial Scholarship, the 4th Kuma Foundation Scholarship, the Sato International Cultural Education Foundation Scholarship, and the Kamiyama Foundation Scholarship. He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Tokyo University of the Arts as the top of his class in oil painting.
Takeo Takao
This work experiments with contemporary painting. It uses an airbrush as a painting tool, which allows paint to be applied without touching the surface and allows for continuous, uninterrupted lines. Using city symbols such as letters, architecture, and scenery as motifs, it creates a fluid pictorial space with multiple times and perspectives.
Shinnosuke Tojo
Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1978, he graduated from the Department of Comparative Art and Design at Tokyo Zokei University in 2004, and completed his research course at the same university in 2005. He materializes his own mental landscapes and unconsciously visible virtual images by applying small and large scratches and rust to the surfaces of metal plates and industrial products. SHINaNOBOYa is a sculpture of an imaginary friend from his childhood that he first created from his own memory, and was unearthed at his parents' home in 2018. It has become an indispensable motif since then.
It became one of the things that I wanted to do, and it also became a catalyst for removing the limitations of materials. In recent years, I have also been presenting introverted works in which two paintings are reflected on the screen and trapped. My production style, which focuses on existence, is not limited to painting, but has expanded to a wide range of areas such as sculpture and installation works.
Masayoshi Nojo
Born in 1989, he completed his master's degree in Japanese painting at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2015.
He is engaged in a unique endeavor to fuse contemporary expression with the traditional expression of the passage of time in Japanese art. Since his time at university, he has been interested in social memory (collective memory), and aims to evoke it in the viewer. In order to remove arbitrariness from his creations, he chose a mixed media expression method incorporating photography, and extracted colors and forms from photographs as the smallest units that compose the image of memory. Inspired by the flow of a silver-leaf river depicted in Ogata Korin's Red and White Plum Blossoms Screen as an expression of the passage of time, he applied marbling to the base panel based on the impression of colors extracted from the photograph, and overlaid the image of the photograph on top with a silver-leaf silkscreen.
Futoshi Hatayama
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1992. Graduated from the Master's Program in Oil Painting at Tama Art University Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2017. Hatayama attempts to visualize the atmosphere and presence that the body certainly feels in natural places, even though it cannot be captured by the eye. He represents the invisible world using what he calls "primary perception," the natural perception that the body should inherently have, not outside of perception. After winning the Excellence Award and Nawa Kohei Award at the 1st CAF Awards in 2014 for a painting based on white, he continues to create works based on a variety of motifs, such as the umwelt that various natural phenomena can have, the networks that plants form with various living things, and the new nature of the modern era that includes digital and AI.
Recent major solo exhibitions include "Number of the Future" (Courtyard HIROO, Tokyo, 2023), "Intimate Time and Space" (EUKA RYO TE, Tokyo, 2023), and "Method of Objectivity" (Gallery Pictor, Kanagawa, 2022). Major group exhibitions include "VOCA 2023: Prospects for Contemporary Art - New Artists of Plane" (The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, 2023), "attunement" (The 5th Floor, Tokyo, 2020), "Jingu Forest Art Festival" (Meiji Jingu Museum, Tokyo, 2020), and "Mithology of Retina and Memory" (Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, 2018).
Rintaro Fuse
Born in 1994. Graduated from the Graduate School of Film and New Media, majoring in media and video, at the same university in 2019.
He practices the "new loneliness" and "being two" that have emerged in cities since the release of the iPhone through paintings, videos, installations, curation, websites, event planning and other works based on his own texts such as poetry and critiques.
Yan2
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture in 1984. He misuses, repurposes, and hacks ready-made products incorporating cutting-edge technology, power plants, discarded goods, and existing information systems to create works in the form of two-dimensional and three-dimensional art, installations, and performances. He examines and attempts to shed light on the politics and privilege that are rendered unconscious or concealed by technology. He won the New Face Award at the 15th Japan Media Arts Festival Art Division (2012) and the Excellence Award at the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival (2018). TERRADA
ART AWARD 2023 Finalist Yuki Terase Award. Traveled to the U.S. for 6 months as part of the ACC New York Fellowship (2023). Recent major exhibitions include "MOT Annual 2023" (Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, 2023), "Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming and Going" (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022), "Someone Far Away" (SCARTS, Sapporo, 2021), "DOMANI: Tomorrow Exhibition" (The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2018), and Aichi Triennale 2016 (Aichi Museum of Art). In addition, he has collaborated with many different fields, such as performance works with contact gonzo and theatrical works presented by Wada Naka.