Toshihiko Mitsuya「 When you hear the sound of feathers」
2022.8.27(sat) ー 10.16(sun)“The aluminum garden -structural studies of plants-” 2022
Aluminium Foil Mirror polished surface 0.2mm

We will hold the exhibition “ When you hear the sound of feathers” by Toshihiko Mitsuya here at rin art association.
Since his childhood, Mitsuya has been playing and making sculptures using kitchen aluminum foil as part of his work. His
installation “The indignant” , which aligned 300 sculptures and is considered to be a reconstruction of his childhood, won theTARO Award 2010 for Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art.
After moving to Germany, he used 0.2mm thick aluminum foil to create more complex and elaborate sculptures. In “theAluminum garden - Structural studies of Plants” which he started working on from 2014, he has been studying the structureof plants, and formed the organic garden with sculptures of various plant motifs.
For this exhibition, by using 2 ﬂoors of the gallery, we exhibit new sculptures and relief works which would create reﬂections
responding to the surrounding environment by using mirror-ﬁnished aluminum foil. Also, two-dimensional works carved on
stainless steel with a grinder will be presented.

After the epidemic of COVID-19, I have displayed outside, managed, and observed the work “Aluminum garden - Structural
studies of plants -” , on which I had committed from the past, just like a gardener. The aluminum plants were exposed torain and wind, insects laid eggs on their leaves, and at one point the ground swelled, gradually changing into a shape thatsuited the environment. The garden always had a diﬀerent impression and constantly changed depending on the color of thesky and the colors of the surrounding trees. It seemed as if the garden itself is searching for the way of co-existence with thesurrounding nature.
This exhibition “When you hear the sound of feathers” intends to turn the inspirations through the outside display into a newform of exhibition in indoor environment. Plant sculptures and semi 3D relief works using reﬂective aluminum foil, andworks using mirror-ﬁnished stainless. The mirror surfaces of these works reﬂect each other, and respond to each other. It
senses the movement of the viewerʼ s body, even the subtle movements of breathing and heartbeat, eventually changing theimpression. Even one wishes to see the same ﬁgure again, it can not been seen anymore. Some things are real, others are
virtual images reﬂected on a mirror surface, as that unsettledness links to the viewerʼ s memories, making the memory
unsettled as well. When those works react to each other to create a single landscape, a ﬂuctuation similar to nature is born inthe space.

- Toshihiko Mitsuya

Toshihiko Mitsuya
Born in Osaka, Japan in 1979. Graduated Seian University of Art and Design in 2004. Major solo exhibitions include “Still river” inKodama Gallery (2009, Kyoto) , “ The Aluminum garden - Structural studies of plants -” in STUDIO PICKNICK (2015, Berlin), “Farfrom Static” in GATEAU FESTA HARADA GALLERY (2016, Gunma) , “Leaking Light” in Seibu Shibuya (2017, Tokyo), and others.
Major group exhibitions include “PLAYERS” in Arts Maebashi (2014, Gunma) , “Art Project Takasaki, THE ECHO” in City Gallery
Takasaki (2016, Gunma) , “The Vision of Contemporary Art 2019” in Ueno Royal Museum (2019, Tokyo), “Sculpture & Nature” in
Schlossgut Schwante/Oberkramer (2020, Germany) and others.
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