INAX Gallery 1 & 2 - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for INAX Gallery 1 & 2. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Kiyohito Sekiguchi "Patterns In Red"
Sekiguchi's urns have a stout, round body with large-petaled flowers glazed in a deep vermilion. These "shuirotsubo" (vermilion urns) are adorned with peony, pomegranate and rhododendron flower motifs, (...)
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Kei Tsuji Exhibition
Kei Tsuji has been conducting fieldwork and creating installations in Australian deserts, Canadian forests and island waterfronts in Scotland using self-dyed yarn and cloth since the 1970s. His colorful (...)
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Osamu Kojima "The Sparkle of Ceramics"
Osamu Kojima has been making ceramics for almost 15 years, exhibiting his work widely both in Japan and abroad. In recent years, his works have come to resemble coagulated, black lava flows with a commanding (...)
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Yuichi Tabuchi Exhibition
Tabuchi's work consists of monochrome photos, human figures in wirework, and geometrically shaped sculptures shut inside a box measuring 385x280x35mm. The monochrome photos depict human figures placed (...)
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Tsutomu Yamamoto Exhibition
Tsutomu Yamamoto is an artist who visualizes various optical phenomena in a lyrical manner, using the simple yet unique method of letting light filter through and permeate acrylic. Our typical experience (...)
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Galleria Ceramica Summer Exhibition
INAX Galleria Ceramica is holding the 12th "Galleria Ceramica Summer Exhibition of Vessels, Small Objects and Tools". Made by artists who have held solo exhibitions at the gallery over the past 11 months, (...)
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Naoki Matsuda Exhibition
The works of Naoki Matsuda consist of installations that make novel use of materials. "View of the Flow" uses flotsam from the Sumida river to create a 116 meter long sequence of packing materials laid (...)
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Hyun Sang Chul Exhibition
Hyun's work resembles long ceramic cords that have been twisted and coaxed into spirals, with ball-like parts that seem to be gradually expanding. The textures of these sculptures, although ceramic, remind (...)
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Susumu Shimonishi "I am, I am"
Susumu Shimonishi is a 31 year old video artist with a unique sense of humor. In these bird's eye views of large traffic intersections in the city, throngs of people come and go each time the traffic (...)
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Emi Kodama "The Shape of Budding Life"
Emi Kodama's ceramic works measure about 40-50 cm across, and are studded with countless 1cm depressions tinged with blue, stuck onto the sides of these rock or cave-like chunks that sometimes also have (...)
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"Okonai: The Shape of Festivals" Exhibition
Shiga Prefecture is known even within Japan as a beautiful region of lakes and many festivals. The "Okonai" rite that is performed at the beginning of the year to ensure safety in the villages and a bountiful (...)
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Kanzo Shibata "Visiting Forest"
The relief features and contours of huge, white snow-covered mountains appear on upright walls that seem to divide the room into parts. Fallen snow piled up on the ground glints in the light. Up close, (...)
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Tomoyuki Adachi "White Clay: Emotion of Geometry"
These sculptural forms in white clay have had their insides gouged out, arranged erect and upright like Go boards, with crater-like shapes seeming to fly out of those vacant intervals. With their fluid, (...)
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Naoki Ishikawa "Vernacular: Corners of the World"
Ishikawa is a young 30 year old photographer who has previously released a collection of photos featuring prehistoric murals called "New Dimension," and a monograph called "Polar," the fruit of 10 years (...)
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Haruka Miyanaga "White Clay: Soft Plaits"
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Takako Hojo Exhibition
This is an exhibition by a Kansai-based artist Takako Hojo whose works are mainly drawings based on landscape motifs. Artist Talk: April 1st (Tues), 18:00-19:00 No reservations necessary. Free.
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Japan Institute of Architects (JIA) "1st Art x Archi Session"
Organized by the Japan Institute of Architects (JIA), this event is the first in a series of talks with architects and artists. The president of the JIA, Mitsuru Senda will be in attendance. Mr. Senda (...)
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"The Age of Crafts - Growing up with 'Science for Children'" Exhibition
"Science for Children" was first published in 1925 (Taisho 14), and continues to be one of Japan's best and longest running magazines. It has contributed to nurturing future scientists, serving as an early (...)
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Nobuaki Onishi Exhibition
This Kansai based ceramic artist is known for his life size resin representations of every day things and creatures. His works are characterized by his superb coloring technique. The difference between (...)
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Tomomi Tanaka "Ceramic Wall - Wavering Form"
This artist's works comprise ten, even twenty densely overlapping ceramic layers attached to a frame by slip. The groups of thin ceramic fragments look as soft as flower petals or bird feathers at one (...)
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Ayaka Sugiyama "Invisible Book"
This is an installation using books. This artist uses actual books and takes actions such as rubbing parts off while reading the text or illuminating and hiding sentences traced in red and orange ink with (...)
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Makiko Hattori "Earth Expressions - Frill Ceramic"
This artist's works are white or black oblong or disc-shaped 50cm-square ceramic objects completely covered with thousands of tiny frilly clay fragments, originally 1x3cm in size. The objects give off (...)
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Masumi Nakaoka "White Gaze"
This artist's 2D works are characterized by the sharp contrast between glossy white and vivid acrylic colors. The white canvas and white paint layered onto the canvas as a relief constitute a large portion (...)
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Minami Kodama "Hey! Hyou Hisago Gourd Ceramic Objects"
This artist's works take the Japanese hyoutan gourd as the motif. Hyoutan have been loved by everyone as a decorative motif since ancient times, and has been used as a symbol for the Imperial family for (...)
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"Birdhouse - Houses that Beckon Birds" Exhibition
"Birdhouses" are small houses for small birds. In the West, many people enjoy a lifestyle closely interacting with wild birds by placing a birdhouse or bird feeder in their gardens or yards. A birdhouse (...)
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Naoko Fukui "A Room with a Painting"
This is an installation encompassing the entire gallery space. A nested room has been created in the space, and every element from the plants to the furniture is a painting created by this artist. She (...)
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Daisuke Yamagishi "White Pot Silhouette, Arch of Flowers and Birds"
Daisuke Yamagishi creates white ceramic objects based on the shape of pots. His unique shapes are thin, long, elegant and white like a swan or heron standing or the center of an orchid. Yamagishi is attracted (...)
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Migiwa Tanaka "Become Sky and Cloud"
This award-winning artist has been attracting attention for her suibokuga ink paintings since graduating from Tokyo Geijutsu University. Her works depict natural landscapes in monochrome with simple abstract (...)
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Ai Hanazuka "Ceramics from the Festival of the Universe"
Bright, rainbow-colored cylinders will shoot out into the sky from amongst white ceramic mountains and cities. The lollipop-like color spectrum expresses rainbows, stars, the moon and the sun and has a (...)
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Fuku Fukumoto "Towards Translucence"
This is an installation of white ceramic works. The beautiful white thinly stretched out forms are reminiscent of clouds, fog or pools of water. This artist has been critically acclaimed since winning (...)
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"Stones are Beautiful, Stones are Mysterious - Tsugaru Stones" Exhibition
The Tsugaru Region is frequently completely white, blanketed in snow. By contrast, an unexpected variety of patterns and colors on stones can also be found here. In fact this region is know to have produced (...)
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Satoko Fujikasa Exhibition
Artist Talk: September 7th (Fri), 18:30-19:00 First come first serve. Free entry.
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Kouichi Sakao "Ginza Gift"
Artist Talk: September 3rd (Mon), 18:00-19:00
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Yuki Tawada Exhibition
The "10days Selection Exhibition" is based on an open call for submissions and is held in INAX's Gallery 2. This year is the ninth year, and 2 artists were selected from the 150 submissions. This artist's (...)
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"Galeria Ceramica Summer: Bowls, Small Objects, Tools" Exhibition
This is the 11th "Galeria Ceramica Summer." Galeria Ceramica is known for its exhibitions that communicate one artist's message using the entire gallery space, but just for the month of August, artists (...)
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Daiichi Shichino "INAX Gallery Special Exhibition 10 Days Selection: The Shape of Signs 9"
The 10 Days Selection Special Exhibition is INAX Gallery's second exhibition based on a open call for submissions, and this is the 9th version of it. 2 artists' works will be on show out of the 150 submitted. Shichino's (...)
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"Boathouse - Local Landscape and Form" Exhibition
Boathouses have one use, to house boats, but their forms and shapes are diverse. Some are simple, and some are fancy enough to house people. A variety of anthropological details such as local climate, (...)
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Aeneas Wilder "Supergravity - Infinite Recycle Journey"
This Scottish artist creates works using pieces of dismantled school buildings, carefully stacking them on top of one another without any adhesives. The largest of these works is 7m high and 11m wide. (...)
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Rina Hongo "Ceramic Reflections"
This artist takes a base of clay mixed with newspaper and slurry, covers it with a silkscreen-printed cloth. and by baking it transfer the pattern from the silkscreen cloth onto the clay base. The result (...)
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"52 Years of 'Shitsunai (Interiors)' - What Natsuhiko Yamamoto Left Behind" Exhibition
"Shitsunai" is an interior magazine that columnist Natsuhiko Yamamoto started in 1955. This exhibition looks back through the magazine's 52-year history until it was discontinued in March 2006. The focus (...)
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Kaoru Minamino "Tou (Ceramics) Mechanical Composition"
This artist uses ceramic and firing methods to create unique works that are reminiscent of objects made of metal such as large-scale industrial machines and bridges. This event is taking place at Galeria (...)
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Masaaki Nishi "Towards Great Sculpture"
Nishi is a highly acclaimed sculptor who has been producing work since the 1970s, both at home and internationally. Last year, he held "Forms of the Sky, the Earth, and Memory" at the Museum of Modern (...)
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"String Figures Around the World" Exhibition
It's not very well known that the game 'string figures' has a long history and is played all around the world. This exhibition explores the world that one piece of string can create by taking a look at (...)
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Tadayuki Shimada "Sculptures of Dogs, Ever-changing Dogs"
For this exhibition, ten life-size aluminum dogs by Tadayuki Shimada will bright up the gallery entrance and space. Together with the apple tree made out of iron at the entrance, they create an idyllic (...)
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Tadayuki Shimada "Silver Dogs Hidden in the Forest"
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Sook Kyung Zhang "Green Drawing"
This exhibition of of Sook Kyung Zhang's work consists of thirty canvasses of A3 size with ovals drawn on them in green oil pastel. They look like large trees that sway with the air-conditioning or the (...)
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Noriyasu Fukushima "Mind Garden"
Noriyasu Fukushima has been a leading Japanese sculptor since the 1960s. He is reknown for his minimalistic, brighly-coloured geometric shapes that symbolize the climate of the times. In 1982, INAX Gallery (...)
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Birth of Towers: Tachu Naito and a Tale of Three Towers
Since the beginning of time, people have built towers in search for a better view. As a place to look over town or as a landmark in its own right, towers are works of architecture that characterize the (...)
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Yui Usui Exhibition
Yui Usui creates installations with objects made from everyday things like empty cans and coils. For this exhibition, she will display a work on the theme of 'music classroom in an elementary school' using (...)
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Misa Narikiyo Exhibition
Misa Narikiyo's works look like Western masterpieces done in monotone pastel paints. If you look closely however, you'll see that she uses millions of tiny moths instead of regular lines and dots to create (...)
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Nanako Kawaguchi Exhibition
This is Kyoto-based Nanako Kawaguchi's first solo exhibition. Kawaguchi's paintings are a vivid mix of pastel pinks, oranges and greens. She paints waterfalls, mountains, braids, young girls, and volcanoes. The (...)
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Tomoko Shioyasu "Blessing Wall"
There will be an artist's talk on June 1st, 18:00~19:00.
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Ceramic Variant
Toshiharu Yoshimura creates installations using ceramics and metal to answer his paradoxical questions towards the perceptions of raw material. As a result, the borderline between those materials and the (...)
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Akira Shuto "Sculpture, Movement, Body"
Hokkaido-born Akira Shuto is a sculptor in his 30s, who has exhibited mainly in Aomori. This is his first solo exhibition in Tokyo. The theme of this exhibition is an ancient memory that is common to (...)
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Suzuki Tamotsu Exhibition
Suzuki's "thoughts in spring" are branches made of white clay with a few leaves about to sprout. However, the branches are dried up, and the leaves are black, carbonized. Springtime is filled with greens (...)
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Replicas: Reproduction is Realization
Bronze bells, clay figures, Buddha statues, Buddhist scriptures, and picture scrolls can now be reproduced using various materials and techniques. Following detailed investigations and repeated experimentation, (...)
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Sumiko Kai "Plant Shoes"
Kai's works consist of photographs of shoes made out of flowers. This exhibition will show shoes made out of mimosas, cherry blossoms, horse chestnuts, dandelions, acacias and hydrangeas, all in full bloom, (...)
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Taku Suzuki Exhibition
Suzuki's works are simple yet appealing. The dark-red rusted ceramic objects give the impression of being made out of steel. They are stretching out in the space like birds' wings or a big flower bud about (...)
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Yuka Yamamoto "The Birds of the Ground"
A unique installation exhibition by 26 year old Yuka Yamato. Yamato begins often begins her works by drawing random lines or shapes with watercolors or pencils. They then start a life of their own, rising (...)
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Nami Kawakami Exhibition
Kawakami's sculpture work of 'moving' human figures have been pretty popular in the Kansai area since his graduation 9 years ago. This is his first solo show in Tokyo and he is hoping to wow you with his (...)
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Yasufumi Takahashi Exhibition
Yasufumi Takahashi is a sculptor since the 1980s, and has been working in Japan, France, Canada, and the US. In 1995, he started playing with the theme of "body and world" and his creations are now voluminous (...)
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Hiromi Kato Exhibition
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Prof.Hida's Naniwalogy : alternative studies on life and culture in Naniwa,Osaka
Prof. Hida dresses up in traditional kimono wherever he goes. He embodies the pure Osaka style with his clothes and his words. In this exhibition, he will present the many bits of information he collected (...)
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Yasuaki Onishi "Breathing Star Cloud"
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Mai Yamada Exhibition "Cubic Wall"
Mai Yamada made a beautiful 80cmx300cm geometrical wall with cubes made out of white clay. Each cube has concaved surfaces and if air were being sucked in. When a few hundred cubes are displayed together, (...)
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Nobuaki Date Exhibition "Ukulele Plan"
Nobuaki Date made a Ukulele with parts of a torn-down building. Usually, people hope to keep a small bit of the building for their memory, but why did Date think of making an instrument? A Ukulele is (...)
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Isshiki Chitose Exhibition "Shapes of Crystals"
Isshiki's work is imposing and is made to hang from a wall, just like ornaments in modern architecture buildings. The works have very dynamic shapes with some shaped like grapes and flowers. The clay is (...)
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Building Your Own Home : Celebrating the Spirit of Self-Builders
Most people usually rent or buy their house, a huge investment in one's life. However, some people are not satisfied with "ready-made" homes, and decide to make their own. This exhibition celebrates the (...)
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Chika Kato
Visitors are invited to stand in front of a river flowing outside the gallery, a stream that flows on the wall of the gallery, people rowing a boat... They are made to feel as if they were standing in (...)
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Hitoshi Kuriyama
Every August, the museum exhibits "The Foretaste of Forms." Exhibited in the first half of the month is the installation by Kuriyama. Using neon lights and sounds, Kuriyama expresses the surprize and fear (...)
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Motoyuki Shitamichi
Motoyuki Shitamichi is a photographer born in 1978. A 6-storey concrete ruin standing in the middle of a field, a deteriorating building on a coast, with a single sliver of a window, a large concrete bow-shaped (...)
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Visit to Mud Walls : Historical Landscape of Yamanobe-no-michi Path in Nara
Long ago, shacks with walls made of mud balls and layers of earth were found in many parts of Japan. They would be near fields, on the side of main buildings, or on the street in a village. Of simple making, (...)
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The Carpentry of Karakuwa: The Gifts From The Sea And The Forest - Closing Party
Master Iwabuchi's ship "Karakuwa-Maru", made especially for this exhibition, will be returning to Karakuwa on the 21st of May. From 4pm, we will hold a closing party, where the master himself will initiate (...)
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The Carpentry of Karakuwa: The Gifts From The Sea And The Forest
Karakuwa Peninsula, located in the most Northeastern part of Miyagi Prefecture, is surrounded by sea and forest. With mountains renowned for bearing fine wood in its backdrop, homebuilding and shipbuilding (...)
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Takenori Miyamoto "Me and My Kaleidoscope"
A photography exhibition, in which paired works are displayed as if they are mirror images. In the series "Anonymous", students at Thai Japanese Association School are photographed in pairs, dressed in (...)
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Hungarian Architectural Tiles - The Allure of the Zsolnay Factory
An exhibition featuring ceramic tiles produced at the Zsolnay family kiln in the ancient town of Pécs in southern Hungary. These tiles, heat-resistant, colorful and shiny, are ideal for architecture, (...)
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Sachiyo Tsurumi Exhibition "Shape of the Retina"
The artist Sachiyo Tsurumi creates installation work of "the home" -- matching wallpaper and carpeting, sofa arranged as though it is in a private home, the artist's own photographs gracing the walls, (...)
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Wind and Architecture
An exhibition exploring the relationship between wind and habitat, through Japan's climate and cultural history.
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Yasuyoshi Botan Exhibition
In his work, the artist incorporates the space in which his paintings are placed. This exhibition will feature paintings by the artist Yasuyoshi Botan, which, for the the first time, employ thin ink color (...)
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Miniature Architecture : amazing world of amateurism
An exhibition of architectural and cityscape models.





