Duration: August 27 – December 18, 2022
Weekdays: 11:00–19:00
Sundays and holidays: until 18:00
Closed Mondays (including national holidays fallingon Monday)*Content and schedule are subject to change
depending on the status of Covid-19 infection.

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The 8 Tsubaki-kai members’ profiles⑨⑫③⑧⑥
Reception⑦① Ryuji Nakamura, Hiroshi Sugito《Rope》 2022
rope

⑭ Ryuji Nakamura
hose, water sprinkling nozzle②③⑥⑧⑲㉕ Ryuji Nakamura《Hose》 2022
hose

⑮ Futoshi Miyagi 《My Cigarette, Your Cigarette》 2022
paper, threads④ Nerholsandbag, plants (Erigeron canadensis), block, plastic chair⑯ Ryuji Nakamura
backrest (with the hooked rope)⑤［mé］
outside light⑰ Aiko Miyanaga 《birthday》 2022
naphthalene, trunk, mixed media⑦ Nerhol 《Trifolium repens》 2022
Inkjet paper⑨［mé］
The riverbed where［mé］often go when they have to think aboutsomething. Kenji Shiratori (a blind art appreciator and a photographer)confronts that scenery. This is a record fo the conversation between
Shiratori and the scenery" 2002, 26min 57sec⑩ Aiko Miyanaga《suitcase "pieces of ocean"》 2022
naphthalene, suitcase, mixed media※ Please ask gallery staff if you'd like to open the suitcase.
⑪ Nerholsandbag, plants (Erigeron canadensis and etc.), block, and banco
iPad: e-mail correspondence with Anna Tsing (cultural anthropologist)⑫ Futoshi Miyagi《Banner (from A Japanese Nightingale and Serenade)》 2022
fabric, threads, ash of cigarette⑬ Futoshi Miyagi 《Writing a Letter》 2022
single channel video (silence) 3min 37secRyuji Nakamura
Hose and water sprinkling nozzle, plant (Aloe), bentwood chair, backrest (with the hooked rope)＊On the table: vase
★Shelf: moldings

Hiroshi Sugito★Shelf: seeds of mangos⑪⑭⑬⑤

Futoshi Miyagi＊On the table: 8 photographs (of Tamagawa River taken for the research on river), text for Franz Schubert “Ständchen” (Serenade), Onoto
fountain pen, ink (Tsuki-yo)★Shelf: cup (Ryukyu glass)

NerholSandbags, Erigeron canadensis, blocks, bancos, plastic chair, four-leaf clover★Shelf: Clover Honey⑩④［mé］
The carpet used in their solo exhibition in 2014 at Shiseido Gallery “Unreliable Reality – The Where of This World”, another carpet and rug usedin their atelier, table, chairs (4 dining chairs, 1 single sofa), shelf, 2 art works (Acrylic gas), outdoor light (under the stairs)

Aiko Miyanaga＊On the table: globe★Shelf: drawing by child, pet bottles filled with air from 5000m altitude, glass (made by melting the soil and rubble excavated during the watersupply work on Ginza Hanatsubaki-dori.), bricks (excavated during the water supply work on Ginza Hanatsubaki-dori. Probably the fragmentsof the pre-war building and the foundation part of the sewage system.)⑱⑰◆ Small exhibition room
Since last year’s exhibition, we have had many meetings and shared ideas with each other, and this year we decided to exhibit "pre-work / lessthan a work" that extends last year’s sub-theme of "impetus". What is exhibited here are the objects and works that the artists are inspired by,
as well as the furniture and accessories that are kept in their atelier to enrich their lives.

⑱［mé］《Acrylic gas T-2M#7》
resin, acrylic, etc.
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shelf (objects on the shelf, please refer to ★)㉑［mé］《Acrylic gas T-1S#15》
resin, acrylic, etc.
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chair
㉓ Ryuji Nakamura
plant (Aloe)㉔ Ryuji Nakamura
bentwood chair㉖ Aiko Miyanaga《message 2019/2021/2022》 2022
naphthalene, stone (piece of porcelaine), mixed media㉗［mé］
table and chairs (objects on the table, please refer to ＊)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, and boats. His 2016 solo outing “particlesand release” at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art saw him collaborate with architect Jun Aoki to configure the exhibition space, and for his first solo
show at a Tokyo museum, “module or lacuna” in 2017, in response to the gallery space of the Kunio Maekawa-designed Tokyo Metropolitan ArtMuseum, he unveiled the 15-meter-long painting module. He undertook exhibition design for “Omni-Sculptures - The Scene of Emergence” atMusashino Art University Museum in 2021. Recipient of the 68th (2017) Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Geijutsu
Sensho art award.
Ryuji Nakamura
Architect. Born 1972 in Nagano Prefecture. After earning his MArch at Tokyo University the Arts, and working with Jun Aoki & Associates, heestablished Ryuji Nakamura & Associates in 2004. Major works include Hechima (Collection The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 2010 / San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2012), JINS Kyoto Teramachi-dori (2016), Kobe City Hall Citizens’ Lobby (2017), “MA nature” (2021); and withShiseido, exhibition space design for “Beauty Crossing Ginza: Ginza + La Mode + Shiseido” (Shiseido Gallery, 2016) and interior design for
Shiseido Beauty Square (Harajuku, 2020). Group show participations include “Where is Architecture? Seven installations by Japanese architects”(The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 2010) and “Anti-gravity” (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2013). Recipient of the 6th Kyoto
Architectural Award (2018) and the 32th JIA Rookie of the Year Award (2020) among other honors.
NerholArtist duo consisting of Yoshihisa Tanaka and Ryuta Iida. Taking portraits, roadside trees, animals and water, as well as image data and recorded
footage found on the internet as their source material, they have continued to develop their oeuvre of three-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 an attempt to reveal the multilayered manner of existence harbored withinorganic entities, which often tend to be overlooked in the context of our day-to-day lives. Major exhibitions include “Interview, Portrait, House andRoom” at the Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (2017) and “Promenade” at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art,Kanazawa (2015). Recipients of the VOCA Prize in 2020.
Futoshi Miyagi
Born 1981 in Okinawa. Graduated from The City University of New York in 2005. Major solo exhibitions include “In Order of Appearance”(miyagiya, 2021), “How Many Nights” (Gallery Koyanagi, 2017), and “American Boyfriend: The Bodies of Water” (Kyoto City University of the Arts
Gallery @KCUA, 2014). His “American Boyfriend” project, launched in 2012, explores via artworks and talk events the relationship between anOkinawan man and American man falling in love in Okinawa. His works to date on subjects including his own identity, his native Okinawa, andAmerican 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 the Arts. Miyanaga
participated in the 3rd Shiseido Art Egg program. She spent a year in Edinburgh, Scotland on the 2007 Japanese Government Overseas Study
Programme for Artists, and in 2011 winning the 22nd Gotoh Memorial Foundation emerging artist prize granted her a sojourn in the US and Latin
America. Miyanaga has garnered attention with works that visualize the passage of time through traces left from everyday objects cast out ofnaphthalene and installations formed of crystallized salt. Recent solo exhibitions include “Utakata no Kasane” (The Museum of Kyoto, 2020) and“Rowing Style” (Takamatsu Art Museum, 2019). She is the first Tsubaki-kai member to have also taken part in Shiseido Art Egg.
［mé］Artist collective presenting works that endeavor to offer an immersive insight into the uncertainties of the real world. For [mé] the likes of techniqueand genre are of less importance than situation and path followed around the exhibition, including elements such as the gallery space, andaudience. 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 enhanceideas, decision-making, the refining of partnerships in bringing the work to fruition, and a shared creative consciousness at a spiritual level. Theirsolo shows including “Unreliable Reality – The Where of This World” (Shiseido Gallery, 2014) and “Obviously no one can make heads nor tails”(Chiba City Museum of Art, 2019), participation in the Saitama Triennale 2016, and “masayume” project, Tokyo Tokyo FESTIVAL Special 13(2019-21) have drawn significant public interest.