Press release
February 2019

Multiples
Iba Yasuko, Isozaki Arata, Kawamata Tadashi, Ozawa Tsuyoshi, Shinoda Taro
Date: Tuesday, March 5 – Saturday, March 30, 2019
Opening Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 12:00 – 19:00
MISA SHIN GALLERY is pleased to announce
Multiples, a group exhibition of printmaking by
five of the gallery's artists, from Tuesday, March
5 through March 30.
The plants and landscapes appearing in Iba
Yasuko’s new grain series of prints, which havemonochrome-like coloring, are composed ofdrops of ink that convey a sense of substance.
The transparency and depth that they create
give the impression that drops, or grains, oflight had floated down onto the images on thepaper. In contrast, Isozaki Arata sees prints as
abstractions and visualizations of architecturalconcepts. Actual architectural structures are
three-dimensional and contain space, but what
Isozaki attempts to express in a print is more
Iba Yasuko, grain#2018-2, 2018, silkscreen on BFK

like a fresh interpretation or an instantaneous

Rives, 76.5 x 57 cm (30.1x 22.4 in), edition of 20

image by the architect’s hand.

Kawamata Tadashi’s silkscreens was created in 1995 when he set up installations at theKunsthalle Recklinghausen, in Recklinghausen, Germany. Shinoda Taro created his firstsilkscreens in 2017, based on sketches produced for a site-specific project commissioned byAuckland Art Gallery. Viewers normally only see finished works, but by layering sketches,
photos, and other images produced as part of the creation process, both Kawamata andShinoda teach us that the process itself is the essence of their works.

Kawamata Tadashi,Bunker, 1995,
silkscreen print,
34.5 x 99cm（13.5 x38.9 in）,
A.P. 50

Ozawa Tsuyoshi’s Everyone likes someone,
as you like someone is a project thatgenerally goes by the name ‘The Futon
Mountain.’ Concerned for children whocouldn’t play outside because they lived inareas with high radiation levels in theaftermathoftheGreat

EastJapan

Earthquake in 2011, Ozawa installed theFuton

MountainattheFukushima

Prefectural Museum of Art. The Futon
Mountainin

thiscopperplate

print

possesses a different level of intimacy thanOzawa Tsuyoshi, Everyone likes someone, as you likesomeone, 2012, etching, 11.5 x 15 cm（4.5 x 5.9 in）, edition of
22 +A.P 2

theinstallations,acting

asasmalldeclaration that the nuclear incident will
not be allowed to fade away with time.

This exhibition can be thought of as an experiment of sorts, featuring explorations of thepotential of printmaking by artists who work predominantly in painting, sculpture, installation,or architecture.
Iba Yasuko
Born in Kyoto in 1967. Kyoto Saga University of Arts, postgraduate degree in print. Major exhibitions include a solo show
Whereness of Brilliance at the Museum of Art Kamakura (2009). Her work is part of many public collections, such as at places
like The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
From July 2019, Iba’s solo exhibition A Way of Seeing will be held at Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum.
IsozakiArata
Born in Oita, Japan in 1931. Graduated from Architectural Faculty of University of Tokyo in 1954.

Established Arata Isozaki& Associates in 1963. As a leading international figure in architecture, Isozaki has designed numerous works such as theMuseum of Modern Art, Gunma, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and Palau Sant Jordi; Barcelona Summer
Olympic Games Stadium. He is known not only in architecture but also in activities that cross the field such as theater, music,criticism and philosophy. Isozaki’s touring solo exhibition will start at Oita Art Museum, Oita, from September, 2019.
Kawamata Tadashi
Born in 1953, Kawamata achieved international recognition with his participation in the Venice Biennale in 1982, and hassince held exhibitions at Documenta and La Biennale de Lyon, to name a few. Kawamata currently is a professor at the École
des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His works today range from architecture and city planning, to historiography and sociology, to daily
communications, to medicine.
Ozawa Tsuyoshi
Born in Tokyo in 1965. Earned master's degree from the Department of Fine Arts of the Graduate School of Tokyo National
University of Fine Arts and Music (majoring in mural painting) in 1991. Ozawa picks up various phenomena from his own
surroundings and from the history of art, turning them into artworks full of humor and perceptive critical spirit. Ozawa’s
notable works include: Jizoing series, Nasubi Gallery series, Museum of Soy Sauce Art and Vegetable Weapon series.
Shinoda Taro
Born in Tokyo in 1964. After studying landscape gardening, he began working as a visual artist. His wide-ranging work
encompassing sculpture, video works and installation delves deep into the relationship between humans and nature,receiving substantial international acclaim. Major international exhibitions include Sydney Biennale (Sydney, 2016), Sharjah
Biennale (Sharjah, 2015) and Mori Art Museum (Tokyo, 2010). From July 2019, Shinoda will participate a group show Gardenof Earthy Delights at Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.