

MIWA KOMATSU: DIVINE SPIRIT
HK H Queen’s 8F
March 26 - April 28, 2019
Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong is pleased to present “MIWA KOMATSU: DIVINE SPIRIT,” an exhibition of the artist’s latest works including acrylic and mixedmedia paintings, painted koma-inu sculptures, and scroll paintings over Hakata-ori textile. Komatsu has drawn inspiration from the various countries she had visited, articulating her observation and senses from the places through vibrant, powerful paintings that intrigue viewers with other-worldly sensation.
Miwa Komatsu was born in 1984 in Nagano in Japan. In her childhood, she had close contact with many living creatures thanks to the rich natural environment, and the experience of being present at their final moment led the artist to form her unique view of life and death. She has always related to the purity of nature and sentiment, vividly depicting divine creatures in her work. She started out as a copperplate engraving artist after graduated from Joshibi College of Art and Design in Tokyo, since then she has enlarged her ways of expression to vibrant acrylic and mixedmedia paintings and even to Arita porcelain, through which she has presented various works adopted the theme of divine SPIRIT.
Her earlier practice with copperplate engraving takes important position in her art making, especially black and white monochromatic ways of expression. Komatsu states that this is also where her creativity has started as a young artist, and later developed to vibrant and dynamic acrylic paintings as she becomes more mature and encounters diverse beliefs and people through her traveling different cultures and places.
For this exhibition, Komatsu has created a series of monochrome works which bears the unmistakable trace of the artist’s earlier creations. She also prepared colourful large scale paintings with multiple hues and textures, boldly expressing her visual language. Komatsu’s gesture has taken on a developed dynamism, invite viewers to her creative energy and spontaneous movements. For Komatsu, her art making process, how her works interact with viewers, and further connect people through her art that transcends specific country or culture, is a divine affair.
Komatsu presented a consecutive solo exhibitions at Museum of Tetsu, Kitano Museum of Art Annex and Ueda City Museum of Art in Nagano, and in 2014, she dedicated her painting “Shin-Fudoki” to Izumo Grande Shrine. In 2015, Komatsu exhibited her Arita porcelain guardian dogs at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, the work won the Gold Prize and entered into the permanent collection of the British Museum, making her the youngest artist collected by the Museum at that time. The artist is gaining attentions internationally, her work is also collected by World Trade Centre in New York, and she was awarded the Best Young Artist of the Year 2017 by Tian Gala in China. In 2018, the artist became the Official Ambassador for Maison Christian Dior. She is now setting new records in attendance for her solo exhibitions across cities, posing huge impacts on Japan’s art scene and being active in various aspects.
In March 2019, Miwa Komatsu will present a live painting in Hong Kong at Pacific Place, where she would be drawing vibrant energy from the city and creating a brand new work. Besides, the artist launched a new catalogue in December 2018, she will be present and sign her catalogues for a limit of 100 art lovers at the exhibition opening at H Queen’s.
香港 / H Queen’s
Tel: +852 2523 8001
Fax: +852 2523 8005
Opening Hours: 11:00 - 19:00
Closed: 周日,周一
ARTIST

出生于日本长野县。毕业于女子美术大学短期大学部。现任女子美术大学特别招聘教授、东京艺术大学非常勤讲师。
就读于女子美术大学期间,铜版画作品〈四十九日〉受到赞誉,因而踏上了艺术家之路。从铜版画开始,近年作品媒材拓展到丙烯颜料及有田烧等。
从年幼时期对看不见的世界而来的感受,以及在丰富的自然的环境下亲近各式各样的生物,塑造了万物有灵、众生平等之生死观,以优越且充满力量的表现力,发表以神兽等为主题的作品。
伦敦切尔西花展上展出的有田烧彩绘狛犬作品〈天地的守护兽〉,被大英博物馆收藏,成为常设展品。作品被许多知名博物馆和机构收藏,包括纽约世界贸易中心丶长野县美术馆、广岛Wood One美术馆丶中国山东省日照市潇美术馆丶岛根的出云大社丶日本驻克利夫兰总领事官邸丶日本迪斯尼等等。
于世界各地举办个展,进行现场创作,持续不断的进行创作,提倡「The Great Harmonization」(大和谐)为创作理念并将融入创作之中。