

MIWA KOMATSU: Prayer
Tokyo
August 24 - September 13, 2020
Whitestone Ginza New Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition“Prayer” of Miwa Komatsu. This is the first solo exhibition in 2020 at Tokyo by Miwa Komatsu who has designed this year’s charity T-shirt for 24 Hours TV. It would be our great pleasure if you could feel the world of contemporary artist Miwa Komatsu who has continued to draw “Prayer” paintings.
Born in Nagano in 1984. In her childhood, Komatsu had close contact with many living natures thanks to the rich natural environment: the experience of being present at their final moment led the artist to form her unique view of life and death, which linked to the peculiar style toward the beauty of death. Komatsu began copperplate engraving after entering Joshibi College of Art and Design. At the age of around 20, the work “ The Fourty- nineth day ” was appraised with its originality and it opened the way to be a professional painter. Starting from copperplate engraving, Komatsu has enlarged her ways of expression to acrylic paintings and even to Arita-porcelain in recent years. She has presented various works adopted themes such as death and the Gods who preside over it, holy beasts, Mononoke (supernatural beings) with strong embodiment of her performance. Komatsu realized consecutive solo shows at The Museum of Tetsu, Kitano Museum of Art Annex, and Ueda City Museum of Art, in her born-prefecture Nagano. In 2014, the artist dedicated her work to Izumo Taisha Shrine (the oldest shrine in Japan, considered as where the deity strongly dwells), which elevated her creational power all the more. In the same year, Komatsu collaborated with landscape artist, Kazuyuki Ishihara, and exhibited her Arita-porcelain guardian dog at the Chelsea Flower Show in London; the work won the prize and accomplished the splendid feat of entering into the collection of The British Museum. In 2017, her solo exhibition at Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho recorded circa 30,000 visitors. Komatsu has been active internationally versatile fields including addition of the work to World Trade Center in New York, exhibitions in Taiwan and Hong Kong, supplying the work to the movie, appearance in TV advertisement, just to name the few.
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週二至週六 11:00-19:00、週日 11:00-17:00
Closed: 週一
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。