Tsubaki-kai 8: This New World “Just/Here/Now”
Duration: October 31 – December 24, 2023
Weekdays: 11:00 – 19:00
Sundays and holidays: until 18:00
Closed Mondays (including national holidays fallingon Monday)②①
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The Eighth Tsubaki-kai started during the coronavirus pandemic. The first time the members met face to face was at thewarehouse where Shiseido's art collection is stored. There, we checked the art works selected by the members from Shiseido’scollection and discussed about new works they would create and exhibit with the collection. Afterwards, we gathered at theShiseido Gallery and install the works sharing the space for the first year's exhibition. In the second year, we held online
meetings once a month to share ideas. In the exhibition, two spaces were created: an exhibition space where each member’s
works were gently connected, and a room made up of items each brought from the studio. In the first and second years, themembers deepened their relationships while spending time recognizing themselves.
In the third and final year, we have taken a step away from the harmony that we had been implicitly aiming for, and haveproceeded based on the keywords of "leaving (as is)" and "indifference." The background to this was an experience of findingrichness in things that no one had paid attention to before, because of the change in our lifestyles and the way we connect withpeople due to the coronavirus. These words also include the challenge of being free from common sense and experience, andthe resignation/nobility of accepting things that are beyond one's control or will. On the other hand, there is also an attempt tounravel the sense of distance and trust that has been built up between members and return to their individuality. We hope that
this exhibition will be an opportunity to re-think about the connections between members that can still be felt despite suchattempts, and the rich scenery hidden in everyday life that we have discovered during the coronavirus pandemic.

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The Eighth Tsubaki-kai member’s profile
Hiroshi Sugito
Born 1970 in Aichi. Graduated 1992 from the Department of Japanese Painting, Aichi University of the Arts. Sugioto’ s paintings
are characterized by their delicate colors and shapes, rhythmically placed, and simple motifs the likes of tiny houses, sky, andboats. He undertook exhibition design for “Omni-Sculptures - The Scene of Emergence” at Musashino Art University Museum in2021. Recipient of the 68th (2017) Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Geijutsu Sensho art award.

⑯⑱ ⑰⑮⑲Ryuji Nakamura
Architect. Born 1972 in Nagano Prefecture. After earning his MArch at Tokyo University the Arts, and working with Jun Aoki &Associates (current AS), he established Ryuji Nakamura & Associates in 2004. Major works include Hechima (Collection The
Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 2010 / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2010,2012), JINS Kyoto Teramachi-dori (2016), Kobe
City Hall Citizens’ Lobby (2017), “MA nature” (2021). Recipient of the 6th Kyoto Architectural Award (2018) and the 32th JIA Rookieof the Year Award (2020) among other honors.

⑫⑬㉒⑪Nerhol
Artist duo consisting of Yoshihisa Tanaka and Ryuta Iida. Taking portraits, roadside trees, animals and water, as well as image dataand recorded footage found on the internet as their source material, they have continued to develop their oeuvre ofthree-dimensional works created by carving into stacks of hundreds of photographs shot in rapid succession, the result of which
are images that appear to distort even the very time axis of the subjects themselves. Such works have consistently engaged in anattempt to reveal the multilayered manner of existence harbored within organic entities, which often tend to be overlooked in thecontext of our day-to-day lives. Recipients of the VOCA Prize in 2020.

㉑⑭⑩⑤③Reception④① Futoshi Miyagi 《Reflecting the moonlight, the golden pen tipruns like the wave》2023
Paper, thread, ink (Tsukiyo), fountain pen, felt, needle*The title of the work is a passage from Miyagi's novel “Ikuyo” publishedin 2021.

② Nerhol 《Lycoris radiata》2023⑦Inkjet paper③ Nerhol 《Oxalis triangularis》2023

Inkjet paper④ Aiko Miyanaga 《message（2019/2021/2022/2023)》2023
naphthalene,trunk,mixed media⑤⑦⑮⑱ Ryuji Nakamura 《Unrelated》2023
Paper, stainless steel, wood
⑥ Nerhol 《Aloe arborescens》2023

Inkjet paper⑧ Futoshi Miyagi 《Banner (from Ondine) #2》2023
Inkjet on Japanese paper, yarn

*Banner (from Ondine) #1-#5: Photographing the five seas (Okinawa,The Gold Field, Manazuru, Shingu,《Contact》) with a pinhole camera.
The embroideries are from the poem ‘Ondine’ of “Gaspard du la nuit.”⑨㉑ Hiroshi Sugito ⑨&㉑《inner disco 2》2023⑨《potatos and the sea》2023 FRP resin, plaster, masking
tape, LED light, fruit cap, glass, transparent acrylic, honeycomb
board, wood board㉑《sweet potato lantern》2023 FRP resin, plaster, masking
tape, LED light, clothespins, clothesline⑥⑧⑨⑩ Futoshi Miyagi 《Banner (from Ondine) #3》2023
Inkjet on Japanese paper, yarn
⑪ Me［mé］ 《Contact 2#2》2023

Mixed media⑫ Futoshi Miyagi 《Banner (from Ondine) #4》2023
Inkjet on Japanese paper, yarn
⑬ Aiko Miyanaga 《Peak of the sea》2023
Glass made of the sand excaveted from Ginza
Hanatsubaki-dori, fireproof cruicible⑭ Futoshi Miyagi 《Banner (from Ondine) #1》2023
Inkjet on Japanese paper, yarn
⑯ Nerhol 《Amaranthus retroflexus》2023

Inkjet paper*All four pieces: Created from video taken when Nerhol visited themembers' studios.

⑰ Futoshi Miyagi 《Banner (from Ondine) #5》2023
Inkjet on Japanese paper, yarn

Futoshi Miyagi
Born 1981 in Okinawa. Graduated from The City University of New York in 2005.
His “American Boyfriend” project, launched in 2012, explores via artworks and talk events the relationship between an Okinawan
man and American man falling in love in Okinawa. His works to date on subjects including his own identity, his native Okinawa,
and American culture have taken the form of not only photographs and works on video but also novels.
Aiko Miyanaga
Born 1974 in Kyoto. BFA in sculpture from Kyoto University of Art and Design; MFA in Intermedia Art from Tokyo University of theArts. Miyanaga participated in the 3rd shiseido art egg program. Miyanaga has garnered attention with works that visualize thepassage of time through traces left from everyday objects cast out of naphthalene and installations formed of crystallized salt.
Recipient of the 70th (2019) Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Geijutsu Sensho art award for New
Arttists.
［mé］
Artist collective presenting works that endeavor to offer an immersive insight into the uncertainties of the real world. For [mé] thelikes of technique and genre are of less importance than situation and path followed around the exhibition, including elements
such as the gallery space, and audience. Their approach to the creative process is one of teamwork that utilizes the individual
characteristics of the current principle members (artist Haruka Kojin, director Kenji Minamigawa, and illustrator Hirofumi Masui),combined with the exploration of relationships that will enhance ideas, decision-making, the refining of partnerships in bringing thework to fruition, and a shared creative consciousness at a spiritual level. Directing Art Saitama 2023.

⑲ Aiko Miyanaga 《Wrapping a Verse -White Rose-》2023
Glass, perfume (air), stone*A work made by imbueing stone with perfume and fired with glass⑳ Aiko Miyanaga 《Deep sleep / Shallow awakening》2023
Glass made of the sand of Ginza and a brick excaveted fromGinza Hanatsubaki-dori, Wrapping a Verse -White Rose-

Aiko Miyanaga works in cooperation with: Bureau of Waterworks Tokyo
Metropolitan Government, Eastern Construction Office, Fujiken Co,Ltd,
Toyama Institute of Glass Art㉒ Me［mé］ 《A Small Window》2023

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