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Written by KALONSNET Editor   
Published: January 07 2010

Throughout the ninety years since it opened in 1919, the Shiseido Gallery has been dedicated to Shiseido's corporate ideal of “the discovering and creating new value.” The “shiseido art egg” is a series of public exhibitions that open the doors of the gallery to offer up-and-coming new artists opportunities to show their work, an effort that marks a return to the company's original “mecenat” (activities supporting art and culture) efforts.

Asae Soya "Ringing", 2010 Photo: Kazushi Suzaki

Junichi Okamoto "Sophie's Forest - Exit", 2009 Photo: Ken Kato

Goro Murayama Left: God is in the parts, 2009 Right: The interpretation is done, the drift is done, 2009 Property of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo Photo: Keizo Kioku

For this year's 4th shiseido art egg, the Shiseido Gallery received 336 applications from all over Japan, and choosing just three was a difficult task for the ｓｅｌｅｃｔion committee. After considerable deliberation, the Gallery is pleased to welcome three talented new artists-Asae Soya, Junichi Okamoto, and Goro Murayama-whose work the judges felt offered the kinds of new expression and creation expected to place them at the forefront of a next generation of artists. These three will be exhibiting in solo shows in the first three months of 2010 according to the schedule below. Please peruse the different worlds of the three artists.

Asae Soya: January 8th (Fri) - January 31st (Sun) 2010
Junichi Okamoto: February 5th (Fri) - February 28th (Sun) 2010
Goro Murayama: March 5th (Fri) - March 28th (Sun) 2010

Asae Soya
(b. 1974) Asae Soya's oil paintings feature a keen sense of light and pellucid coloration that appeal not only visually, but also viscerally as if through the human senses of touch and hearing, works that seem as if they can be “felt” and “heard,” not just seen. In this exhibition Soya takes up the theme of “the ‘resonance’ of color,” arranging variously cut and colored pieces of sheeting and vinyl in rippling patterns across the walls, ceilings, and floors of the Shiseido Gallery to create an installation that makes the very air within seem to undulate with billowing color. Viewers are invited to come experience these realms positioned between colors expressed in Soya's ｓｅｌｅｃｔion of hues that create almost musical chord-like harmonies. Junichi Okamoto
(b. 1979) Sculptor Junichi Okamoto looks at the boundaries between art and the everyday to create works that transform spaces in dramatic ways. In this exhibition Okamoto boldly and simply divides the Shiseido Gallery, itself comprised of large and small exhibition spaces, to reveal worlds of polar opposites-light and dark, ordinary and extraordinary-in a space that allows viewers to come and go amongst them, experiencing the way they speak gently to our physical senses and conscious perceptions alike. Goro Murayama
(b. 1983) Goro Murayama creates his art through a unique systematic process that cycles through the four activities of weaving strands of hemp, laying groundwork, drawing a picture, and viewing the results, a process repeated and allowed to vary as time goes on to result in large, two-dimentional works. In this exhibition, Murayama applies this system again, repeatedly alternating his work of base forming and depiction, allowing these to reiterate and permeate one another to expand into the Shiseido Gallery space as new works that seem systematic on one hand, but also primitive and mysterious. Visitors are invited to come explore and enjoy these latest depictions by Goro Murayama, created by braiding expansive time and diverse elements into works that start with the production of numerous hempen strands. * The text provided by Shiseido Gallery.

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Last Updated on January 08 2010
 

Editor's Note by Satoshi KOGANEZAWA

Asae Soya "Ringing"

The exhibition space is composed of colorful cutting seat and vinyl sheet cut out like ripple being spread over the floor, put on the wall in layers, and hung from the ceiling like mobiles. The hall is entirely filled with gay hues, and I can feel the dynamism in the color and the form. We are not permitted to get on the pattern though necessary to put on the shoes cover when entering. We might have been able to experience the work further if the material of unquestionable is used for us to stroll freely on it.


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