[Special Project] Monchhichi collaborates with contemporary artists! 50th anniversary project "RE:MONCHHICHI Exhibition" to be held

Three contemporary artists, Koichiro Tada, Akina Tokiyoshi, and Mioka Matsuura, will be reinterpreting the motif of Monchhichi, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year since its creation in 1974, and will be presenting works based on it. In addition, as a special collaboration, a collaboration Monchhichi with contemporary artist Ken Kagami, who was born in 1974, the same year as Monchhichi, will be released exclusively at the MYAF venue.

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About Ken Kagami

Born in Tokyo in 1974, he currently lives and works in Tokyo.
He creates artworks that use everyday events as jokes or comedic ideas.
He creates many sculptures and drawings based on art history and current topics.
Major exhibitions: 2020 "Masterpiece," a two-person exhibition with Trevor Shimizu, curated by Emily Watlington; 2017 "Retrospective," Parco Museum Ikebukuro, solo exhibition. He also formed the unit C&K with artist COBRA. (https://www.instagram.com/kenkagami/)

"RE:MONCHHICHI"
Exhibiting artist profiles and comments

◆ Tada Koichiro

Painter, born in 1992. Gunma Born in Ota City. Graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Department of Painting (Laboratory of Techniques and Materials). Based on her own experiences of separation from trusted others, such as heartbreak, isolation, and bereavement, she has been working with the image of others who continue to change fluidly in her mind (like a complex chimera of past experiences that does not indicate a specific individual), which she calls "you," to multifacetedly determine the existence of this motif with its indefinite shape but strong sense of reality. He uses a variety of materials and methods of expression to create his works, as if he were trying to determine the existence of this motif, which has an indefinite shape but is accompanied by a strong sense of reality. Many of his works are extremely experimental, referring to the work and attitude of modern painters such as Paul Cézanne and Henri Matisse, who confronted their own expression over a long period of time. In addition, apart from his individual production activities, he regularly organizes independent exhibitions and art festivals, calling on players of his generation (including curators and critics) under the theme of "the antithesis of the modern age, which seeks premature expression. Major solo exhibitions include "Colorful Corpse Flesh" (2023,TAKU SOMETANI G ALL ERY) "Until You Turn into You" (2024,galleryblue3143), major group exhibitions include "Lived Garden" (2019, Kyoto Botanical Garden, curated by Yu Takagi) "Standing Ovation / (2021, Hotel New Akao, curated by Yu Takagi), "YUWO-SURU WALKING BUNJIN" (2023, GASBON_METABOLISM, curated by Kei Harachie), and major independent exhibitions include "Painting and Movement 'Rough Dimension'" (2018, Yotsuya Unidentified Studio), "Let's Take a Little Side Trip. Why don't we take a short detour? (2023, Nezu Curry Lucky), "Say hello to Stranger" (2021, various locations in Kanazawa, Ishikawa), "Uraraka Painting Festival" (2023, various locations in the Taito-ku area of Tokyo, hired curators include Ito Yuki, Nozomi Iimori, Yu Takagi, Atsuhiro Miyake, Rintaro Fuse). (https://www.instagram.com/tadakoiichiro/)

◆ Akina Tokiyoshi

Born in Osaka Prefecture in 1994. Graduated from the Department of Information Design, Faculty of Art and Design, Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2016.
In 2018, he won the Grand Prix in the Graphics category at "ALL" for his solo exhibition "Number One," as well as the workshop "Something's happening at the Ham★Star Museum!?" (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2020), the solo exhibition "Interesting Chinese Restaurants" (WHITEHOUSE, 2022), and the solo exhibition "Liminal Suite" (BnA Alter Museum, 2025). He won the Nagai Hiroshi Meister Award at "Human Museum 2018."
While exhibiting at art exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, he has also worked on client projects for companies such as ABC-MART and Hobonichi, participated in a group exhibition hosted by comedian Kinzoku Bat, and provided work for the music video for the alternative rock band GEZAN's "Chūken." He has been a part-time lecturer at Kyoto University of the Arts since 2022. (https://www.instagram.com/akinatokiyoshi/)

◆Matsuura Mioka

Her creative practice is based primarily on artwork using fabric, as well as oil paintings (or images) using fabric as a motif. Recently, she has not only painted motifs, but also created paintings that fuse images and their subject matter. Her work is deeply rooted in her interest in the soft texture of fabric, which she has been exposed to since childhood thanks to her mother's influence, her unique sense of material beauty and materiality, and the way images (or two-dimensional drawings) emerge as three-dimensional sculptures. She also recalls returning to her childhood, the sublimity and intimacy of pet cats and stuffed toys that she cannot touch even if she wants to, the tactile sensation of soft fabrics stacked on top of each other, and the texture of these piles. She also unconsciously expresses things that have happened to her, changes in her environment, and both positive and negative experiences in a poetic way, accumulating these in her ideal works.
I have the sense that the work begins to take on an independent form within me as I continue to create it. Rather, it is as if the work, having left my hands, takes on a life of its own and undergoes a mysterious process of completion with my help. My habit of observing the outside, as if searching for something underneath, seems similar to how, when I trace the surface of a painting in the same way, it gradually begins to take on an inner (spiritual) element.
I feel that behind these intuitive (or spontaneous) creative endeavors lies the same impulsiveness we all have as children, moving into action before we can even put our thoughts into words. Through these works that are born from these senses, I believe that if we turn our attention to the boundaries between what is considered 'beautiful' and what is not, which are fundamental to our senses, or to the differences in our perception of what is alive or what is materially present, we may be able to rediscover the charm of imperfection. (Raul__nnnn5/)

[MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL 2025 Event Overview]
■Dates: Friday, October 10th - Monday, October 13th, 2025 (National Holiday)
10th: 16:00 – 22:00
*Only the market and live performance will be held on the 10th (the art area will be open for preview all day)
11th: 11:00 – 20:00
12th: 11:00 – 20:00
13th: 11:00 – 18:00
■ Location: Around Tennozu Canal, Tokyo
Art Exhibition "Ahead of the Rediscovery Stream" | Warehouse TERRADA G3-6F ★
Art Fair "MEET YOUR ARTISTS" "MEET YOUR ARTISTS -CROSS OVER-" | B&C H ALL / EH ALL
Live Performance/DJ | T-LOTUS M ★
Talk Session | WHAT CAFE ★
Market "SUPER ART&CRAFT MARK ET" | WHAT CAFE / Boardwalk / Bond Street
■ URL:
(HP) https://avex.jp/meetyourart/festival/
(Instagram) https://www.instagram.com/meet_your_art/
■ Art tickets:
・Advance tickets: 2,500 yen, same-day tickets: 3,000 yen
・Students: 1,500 yen (advance ticket/student ID required), 2,000 yen (same-day ticket/student ID required)
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*This art ticket grants admission to the art exhibition "Ahead of the Rediscovery Stream" (Warehouse Terrada G3-6F), and the art fairs "MEET YOUR ARTISTS" and "MEET YOUR ARTISTS -CROSS OVER-" (EH ALL / B&C HALL ALL).
■Organizers: MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Executive Committee (constituent organizations: Avex Creator Agency Inc., Area Management TENNOZ General Incorporated Association, Tennozu Canalside Revitalization Association General Incorporated Association), Tokyo Metropolitan Government
*Tokyo Metropolitan Government will work with the MEET YOUR ART FESTIVAL Executive Committee to implement the event in the areas marked with ★.
■Sponsor: Shinagawa Ward
■Operated by: Rights Apartment Co., Ltd.
■ Cooperation: Warehouse Terrada Co., Ltd.