For immediate release
Y.T. Invisible Hand
Kazuhiro Goshima, Kaoru Furuya, Yoshidayama, Yuki Yoshida
Contributors: Arinori Shigeta, Kenji Murasame and others
November 6 - 27, 2021
eitoeiko is pleased to announce the third in a series of exhibitions called ‘Four Exhibitions about
Japanese Cultures’. The current show is titled ‘Y.T. Invisible Hand’ and consists of artwork by four artists.
This exhibition focuses a work of Yoshiyuki Tomino, a director of animation films, and handles it as amass-media through the viewpoint of Adam Smith.
Yoshiyuki Tomino, a director who is well known for works such as "Mobile Suit Gundam," which isgenerally interpreted as visual animation for children, cites the composition of his stories from the 16thcentury English playwright Shakespeare, which is compatible with the theme of the search for humanhappiness. Adam Smith was also a philosopher of the Enlightenment as well. Based on the above, theexhibition will be accompanied by the publication of a coterie magazine featuring works and texts by
Kazuhiro Goshima, Kaoru Furuya, Yoshidayama, Yuki Yoshida, and contributions by Kenji Murasame
and Arinori Shigeta.
About the exhibition“Y.T. Invisible Hand” is a wordplay on Adam Smith's "The Invisible Hand," which refers to Smith's ideathat "the pursuit of individual interests can unintentionally bring about public wealth," and "the pursuit ofindividual expression can unintentionally come under the influence of Tomino," which this exhibition will
examine from various angles.
Yoshiyuki Tomino is a famous director of TV animation programs who directed many robot animations
such as "Mobile Suit Gundam", "Space Runaway Ideon", "Xabungule", "Aura Battler Dunbine" and"Gundam Reconguista in G". Tomino's originality and ingenuity in the field of commercial animation forchildren has given birth to many Tomino Children and has had an immeasurable impact not only in Japanbut all over the world. His production method was groundbreaking in that it considered animation as amoving paper "play". Looking back at Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" - formally known as "An Inquiry
into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations" - the key term of the Wealth of Nations theory is the"social division" of the characters in the Tomino animation. The issues of national defense, judicialadministration, and public facilities in the fictional government are exactly the same as the structure of theworld depicted in the Gundam universe. This exhibition will be an opportunity to experience Smith's
invisible hand through the visual experience of being unexpectedly guided by the director at a young age.
Artists
Kazuhiro Goshima
Born in Shizuoka, 1969. Received his BFA from Kyoto Institute of Technology. Full-time lecturer at Image
Forum. Active as a video and media artist. Won the Excellence Award in the Art Division at the 18thMedia Arts Festival, 2014. He has received many awards including the Ars Electronica Award ofDistinction, 2014. Major exhibitions include The Painter's Absence, solo exhibition, 3331 Arts Chiyoda,2020, To Travel with with Glasses, Kamata-Soko, Aomori Museum of Art, Iwami Art Museum, Shizuoka
Prefectural Museum of Art, 2018, and the Chile Media Art Biennial, Santiago, 2015.
Kaoru Furuya
Born in Tokyo, 1991. Received her MFA from Musashino Art University in 2016. Studied at Vilnius Art
Academy in Lithuania, 2016-17. Also involved in logo mark and character design. Exhibitions includeTRANSITIONS, China Museum of Graphic Arts, Shenzhen, 2015, St. Niklas Print Biennale, SteM
Zwijgershoek, 2017, SHIBUYA AWARDS, Bunkamura wall gallery, Amano Takeru Award, AOMORITriennial, 2018, and SICF19, 2018, Salon des Beaux-Arts, Carrousel du Louvre, Forest of Ghost Owls,
solo exhibition, eitoeiko, 2019, Yura Yura Mani Mani Kira Kira, solo exhibition, bonon Kyoto and eitoeiko,
2021.
Yoshidayama
The Walking Poet. Born in Toyama. In parallel with his activities as an artist, he has been involved in awide range of activities that attack the periphery of art, such as TOH, 2021- , FL 田 SH, 2018-2020, as adirector of art spaces, and RISO IS IT, OIL by BT Gallery, Shibuya PARCO, 2020 as an exhibition
project.
Yuki Yoshida
Born in 1971, Kanagawa. Received his MFA from Tama Art University in 1997 and received the Gotoh
Cultural Foundation Newcomer's Award in 2000. Studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, University ofLondon in the same year. Lecturer at Musashino Art University, 2016-2009. Major exhibitions include
From "Nihonga" to "Nihonga", Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2006, Currents of Beauty,Bunkamura The Museum, 2010, Look for the Silver Lining, solo exhibition, eitoeiko, 2020, Somewhere
the Sun Shines, solo exhibition, bonon, Kyoto, META, Kanagawa Kenmin Hall Gallery, 202１, TamabiDNA, Art-Theque Gallery, 2021, and others.
Contributions
Arinori Shigeta
Born in Fukuoka, 1967. (Probably) the least worked art writer in Japan. In addition to critiquing for thequarterly Tenpyo (Art Village) and other publications, he has curated several exhibitions, including"Bohme Erotica Japon," Moma Contemporary, Fukuoka, 2004. He has a fetish for machines and loves
models and toys.
Kenji Murasame
Born in 1963, Kenji Murasame received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992.
Professor at Hokkaido University of Education since 2012. In addition to working as an artist andfilmmaker under his real name, Ryusuke Ito, he has been a writer since the 1980s, writing numerous
reviews of manga and other subculture for various magazines. Participated in numerous exhibitions,
including The World of Yoshiyuki Tomino, Aomori Museum of Art 2021, Domestic Affairs, solo exhibition,
Kodama Gallery Tennoz, 2020, Sapporo International Art Festival, 2017, and Love Love Show 2, Aomori
Museum of Art, 2017.
And other contributors
Artworks

Left:Kazuhiro Goshima
I/We Saw (excerpt)
2021

Right:
Kaoru Furuya
UFO and Kyoto Tower
from Love Warrior andMaiden Policy
2021

Yoshidayama
Dining message: "In the stirring kitchen, a dying message about
the redistribution of wealth was written."(Ref.image)2021

Yuki YoshidaNi-Hyakushiki (excerpt)
2021

Zine
Y.T. Invisible Hand (front cover)
2021

Information
Exhibition Title: Y.T. Invisible Hand
Artists: Kazuhiro Goshima, Kaoru Furuya, Yoshidayama, Yuki Yoshida
Contribution: Arinori Shigeta, Kenji Murasame and others
Schedule: November 6 - 27, 2021
Open Hours： 12PM-7PM
Closed on Monday, Sunday and National Holidays
Venue: eitoeiko
Address: 32-2 Yaraicho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0805
Website: www.eitoeiko.com