Chiharu Nishizawa “For beautiful human life” Opening

The opening of Nishizawa Chiharu’s solo exhibition at Tokyo Gallery was full of people, milling around like the figures in his paintings. The centrepiece is a Steinway piano that he painted, and pianist Ryuji Osaki played away all evening.

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Chiharu Nishizawa "For beautiful human life"

at Tokyo Gallery + BTAP
in the Ginza, Shimbashi area
This event has ended - (2007-07-18 - 2007-09-01)

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In Photo Reports by Ashley Rawlings 2007-07-23 print

The evening started with the lights dimmed and Ryuji Osaki playing on Nishizawa's piano

Tokyo Gallery director Hozu Yamamoto talking with Alec Weil from Steinway & Sons Japan

Tokyo Gallery director Yukihito Tabata with art critic Toshiaki Minemura

Chiharu Nishizawa

Nishizawa's paintings reflected in the pianoClose up of 'Birds - a' (2006)

Detail of the design on the piano, titled 'Sound of River' (2007)

Detail of the design of the piano

From the Art Fair Tokyo committee: Mai Takeshima, Shunsuke Miyakoshi and Mariko Takano

Artist Hiroyuki MatsuuraArtist Yohei Watanabe

A guest having a moment alone with Nishizawa's 'Dreamy farm - c' (2007)

Ashley Rawlings

Ashley Rawlings. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he did his BA in Japanese Studies at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he was a research student in the history of Japanese postwar art at Sophia University, and worked as a freelance editor, writer and translator. In addition to being editor of TABlog from 2006 to 2008, he contributed regularly to online and printed publications such as the Japan Times, ART iT.jp, Saatchi Online, ArtReview, ArtAsiaPacific and Artforum.com. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, a 272-page guide to the Tokyo art world published by Chin Music Press in 2008. In 2009 he moved to New York, where he works as features editor of ArtAsiaPacific. » See other writings

Comments

  1. Meg
    2007-08-01

    hi ashley, nice photos. piano looks wonderful in this exhibit. i am going to this. cool. i liked your mini-bio, too. hope i can learn more about your time in the art school and cambridge, i haven’t really heard about that part of your education.

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