Makii Masaru Fine Art - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Makii Masaru Fine Art. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Masaya Shirahama "Ura Monogatari"
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Kazuhiro Ishigami "Bus Stop"
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Aiko Yamamoto "Piggy"
[Image: "Thinking Piglet (group of 4)" (2007), each 22.7x15.8cm, natural mineral pigments and acrylic on canvas]
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"Teppo" Exhibition
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Hitomi Hasegawa + Yasushi Tanaka "Kazumasa Suda Juku Combined Photo Exhibition"
This photography exhibition features the work of Hitomi Hasegawa and Yasushi Tanaka, students at the Suda Juku photography workshop. By exhibiting the works of two artists of different sexes, ages and (...)
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Hiroyuki Ito "Gathering Light"
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"Art=Rock" Exhibition
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"Near West - LA Weeks" Exhibition
This exhibition features work by 5 artists based in Southern California, as well as Yasunari Nakagomi, who is returning to Japan this fall after spending one year in LA. Nakagomi has been traveling between (...)
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Tomoko Kawao "Vertigo"
[Image: "Vertigo #2" H780xW555mm, homemade ink on kent paper]
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Makii Selection 2x4 vol. 5 "Migurumi Nuigurumi"
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Kazumasa Suda Juku Volunteer Photography Exhibition "Naked Dog 3"
This photography exhibition is the graduation show for the 10th batch of students of the photography workshop at Suda Juku. The school was founded by photographer Kazumasa Suda in May 2001 and this is (...)
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Akiko Nakano + Tsuyoshi Furukawa "Field Horsetails"
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Gitai Art Union Exhibition
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Kazumasa Suda Juku 9th Photography Course Graduation Exhibition
This photography exhibition marks the end of the 9th photography workshop at the Kazumasa Suda Juku, where participants showcase the results of their studies - taking a camera into the streets, where in (...)
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"Makii Selection 2x4 vol. 4 -Cynical Histery-" Exhibition
The "Makii Selection 2x4" exhibition is an experimental initiative that tries to seize something of the spirit of the times, the resemblances and differences in how the same theme is understood by 4 artists. (...)
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Shinsaku Baba "SURECHIGAUMANAZASU"
Baba's new work, "Echo<Lace-Door>", is a mirrored painting that recalls the shape of a door. The half-transparent image formed by the work overlaps with the lace motif, itself translucent, producing (...)
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Shin Hanada "July, Scattered Sighs"
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Xiang Zhou + Gao Hunsheng Exhibition
This is an elaborate travelling exhibition that will be held first in Shanghai and then Tokyo, jointly organized by Shanghai I-Art Gallery and Makii Masaru Fine Arts. Shanghai I-Art Gallery hosted the (...)
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Sho Sumi Ink Group Exhibition
Traveling exhibition showing at Shanghai I-Art Gallery and Makii Masaru Fine Arts in Tokyo. With the support of the Japanese consulate-general in Shanghai and companies like Cassina, the exhibition has (...)
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"2x4 vol.3 Layered Landscape" Exhibition
Azumatei uses photographs as a base to transform real scenery into imaginary landscapes through a layering process, while Kadoi reveals the occult mysteries of the mount of gravel. Sakaguchi shows us naked (...)
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"Bowl Bowl Bowl" Exhibition
15 artists will exhibit various bowls. This edition of the exhibition also features glass artists.
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"In Between Art and Architecture vol. 2" Exhibition
This two-man exhibition by Naoyoshi Hikosaka and Yasuhiro Minami explores the gap between art and architecture, attempting to escape the hold of either genre in a transcendent form of expression. Hikosaka (...)
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Daisuke Funaki "Art≠Bijutsu"
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Kyoko Domoto "Garden Bird"
5th installment in the "Niwatori" series of exhibitions, taking as their theme the gardens in the city. A playful banquet of objects gathered in the garden... Performance banquet: May 24th (Sat), 25th (...)
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"Ach, so! = Aa, soh! Part 2" Exhibition
"Ach so" is one of the few expressions in both Japanese and German that are used in both languages to express surprise. Germans say "ach so!" when they unexpectedly learn something new, while Japanese (...)
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"Ach, so! = Aa, soh! Part 1" Exhibition
"Ach so" is one of the few expressions in both Japanese and German that are used in both languages to express surprise. Germans say "ach so!" when they unexpectedly learn something new, while Japanese (...)
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Hitomi Uchigura "Lumiere: Illusionary Shadows"
Uchigura creates little round undulations on the surface of the paper, making a little spectacle of light and shade.
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Makii Selection vol.2 "Eclectic Gardens" Exhibition
Animated flowers that laugh, fake imitation flowers, gold-gilt flowers, stone flowers - these works reflect the often intimate, yet somehow unnatural relationship between people and the flowers they cultivate (...)
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Noboru Inamine Exhibition
[Image: "Flow" 47 × 17 × 51cm]
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Koichi Kato "Dream, Reality"
"Kato works to show how to mirror and translate - rather than produce - a certain line of life. His hand and brush have the power to alter the form that life takes in a reflexive manner." - Ko Matsunaga (...)
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Shoshu "Spirit of Sumi"
This exhibition is composed of two series of new works. Shoshu is known for his custom-made Japanese inks (sumi) that he continues to develop and evolve. The "spirit of Sumi" lives in his works executed (...)
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Masaru Makii Exhibition
Until recently, Masaru Makii produced energetic works aggressively collaging his passions on canvas. However, his recent works are done in the opposite manner. Works shown in this exhibition have systematic (...)
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"2x4 Vol. 1" Exhibition
"Mirroring" is the overall theme of this group exhibition featuring works by four artists. Their works often employ reversed, flipped, or duplicated images. The word "mirroring" refers to creating a backup (...)
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Yasumichi Takemura "Who Am I?"
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"Work of Print House OM" Exhibition
This exhibition introduces works by OM, an integrated printmaking studio which has produced high quality works for various artists and companies.
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"Complrelation 08 Exhibition"
Works by five artists who graduated from the graduate program at Kanazawa Collage of Art are on display. They chose this white cubical space in order to probe the contents of their work even further than (...)
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Hironari Kubota Exhibition
For a year, HIronari Kubota worked in Berlin on a sculpture incorporating the Trabant, an automobile formerly produced by an auto maker in East Germany. The city's atmosphere still carries the memory of (...)
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"'Artists' Utopia' in Shanghai" Exhibition
Makii Masaharu Fine Art is affiliated with Jing Art in Shanghai, that opened in September 2006. Jing Art often exhibits works by Japanese artists as well, and in summer 2007 they held an open studio project (...)
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Kan Isozumi "Emotion - Scape"
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Sumi Group Sho Sumi Three Person Exhibition
[Image: Tomoko Kawao]
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"Roll Play" Exhibition
This exhibition, curated by artist Masaya Shirahama, is being held at 3 venues simultaneously. Today's information society is managed and under surveillance by the "empire," and societal disparities can (...)
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Selma Gurbuz "Sunny Shadows"
Artist Selma Gurbuz, from Istanbul, Turkey, is currently visiting Japan to focus on her studio work. She works in a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, and tapestry. Gurbuz has traveled (...)
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Anette Paulsen "lifehuntingmehuntinglivehuntingme"
"Hunting" is the main theme that Anette Paulsen deals with throughout her works. Life always goes on, occupied by daily routines which sometimes take control of our time. This shifting relationship between (...)
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Takashi Oguchi "People from Junnou Planet"
This is a solo exhibition by Takashi Oguchi, who visualizes his obscure viewpoints on ordinary scenes and happenings.
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Haruko Asozan Exhibition
Haruko Asozan is a visual artist as well as a steering committee member and clinical developmental psychologist for the Yuyu-Bunko hosted Contemporary Artist Center. In this exhibition, she creates textile (...)
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Chen Wenling "Metamorphose"
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Chikusui Sasaki "Soul Power"
"Love" is a life-long theme in Sasaki's paintings. This exhibition features a series of her paintings that consist of repetitious patterns painted in vivid colors. Subtle differences in colors and texture (...)
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Saeko Hirano Exhibition
This exhibition features Hirano's paintings that were created during her 1-year stay in India. She often uses images of food to indicate the fundamental origins of human beings. This time, without limiting (...)
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Natsuki Kenmoku "Ginkakuji"
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Hiromasa Kato "On the Line - Drawings"
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Yumiko Shiosaki "Beyond the Eye"
After graduating from Musashino Art University, Shiosaki started creating installations with photographs, drawings, and various other materials. One day, she came across some holograms and found new possibilities (...)
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"Akinori Imai's Phantom Mandala" Exhibition
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Shizuaki Yano Exhibition
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Annemarijke Van Etten "Dance and Dream Paintings"
Born in the Netherlands and currently living in Freiburg in Germany, Annemarijke Van Etten is a performance artist who lived in Japan from 1982 to 1992, learning from Butoh dancer Kazuo Ono and many others. (...)
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Tomoya Ishikawa "Scale of Happiness"
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Toshio Kojima Exhibition
Toshio Kojima has been making sculptures of fallen leaves. He choses fallen leaves instead of green leaves so that he can spend time looking at them for a long time while completing a carving. Reception: (...)
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Chihiro Sakai "Courtyard"
This exhibition "Courtyard" is a series of memories from a trip. The works on display consist mostly of animals drawn onto ceramic plates.
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Ritsuko Sekihara "Prayer"
After 9/11, Ritsuko Sekihara started making a countless number of Teru-Teru Bozu, which are hand-crafted dolls usually made of tissue paper or white cloth hung with a string by a window or outside. They (...)
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Shoshu "Sumi & Photo Works"
This exhibition features works from a series of Mercedes-Benz TV advertisements, a combination of sumi ink drawings and digital photography, and newly released musical piece "Shoshu Sumi Works Guitar", (...)
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Makii Masaru Exhibition
Makii opened his gallery and also his business distributing stainless steel pipes last year, and since then he has been running around accomplishing his ideas. He draws sketches while he travels for his (...)
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Masahiro Mineoka "An Undersea Exploration"
Party: February 19th, 18:00-20:00
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Toshio Iguchi "There, Inside the Crevice"
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Kenta Honnou "There is a reason there"
An exhibition of "cardboard sculptures" of people and animals, made from cardboard and acrylic paints.
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Hiroaki Nakatsugawa "Evidence and Gazes"
Opening party: January 8th, 18:00-20:00
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Yoshitsugu Tabata "Wind, Landscapes and Color"
Opening party: December 11th, 17:00-20:00
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Chizuko Tanaka Exhibition
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Yuka Monma "Image of Mr. M"
An exhibition to the theme of "art as a tool to 'feel' the energy of life"
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Keiko Kato Exhibition
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Masayoshi Hirai Exhibition
10 color photographs taken with a handmade wooden pinhole camera.
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Masaji Inoue "Stacks and Layers"
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Hiroshi Kobayashi "Scrap 2"
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Kazuo Ohno 100th Birthday Festival
To celebrate the birth of Kazuo Ohno, who will turn 100 this year, this exhibition will display works of all genres by artists and technicians involved with Ohno's work of producing stage sets. Some (...)
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London - Seoul - Tokyo Show 2006 "Floating Odyssey"
This exhibition brings together UK-based artists with Japanese and Korean artists that used to live and work there. Etchings, photographs, digital prints and printings to a variety of themes that are (...)
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Takashi Oguchi "The Habitat of Sumibito"
Opening party: September 4th, 18:00-20:00
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Fumio Takashima "Emotional Reflection"
Opening party: September 4th, 18:00-20:00
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Wakako Exhibition
The first thing we do when we see a picture is to identify what is being depicted, and understand the 'naturalness' which lingers behind the human touch. In other words, we often try to delve into the (...)
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Koji Nakase "With the Ghosts of Our Ancestors"
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Mari Furukawa "When a bird escapes from its cage"
['Psychiatric Hospital']
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Ensaido Maruyama Exhibition
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Kido Takamitsu Exhibition
['Liquid/Body', 1994]
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Yumiko Shiozaki Exhibition
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Kaoru Hironaka "Aspiration"
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Shoshu's World of Ink 2006 Exhibition
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Ink Group "Sho" Exhibition
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Shungo Shimizu "Silent Dawn / Darkness and Light"
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Chiaki Kurumizawa & Yusaku Fujiwara "Float"
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Alexandre Imai Exhibition
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Masanori Sugusaki "Transforming Bodies"
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Tsuguo Yanai "Sculptures with Paper and New Drawings"



