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

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. Born in 1981 in London. After a year of studying painting and mixed media at Chelsea College of Art & Design, he took on Japanese Studies at Cambridge. He moved to Tokyo in 2005, where he studies the history of Japanese post-war art at Sophia University and works as a freelance writer, translator and editor. As well as writing and editing for TABlog, he writes for the Japan Times and the ART iT website. He is also the editor of Art Space Tokyo, an intimate guide to the Tokyo art world. When not in galleries and museums or taking photographs, he enjoys losing himself in among Tokyo's skyscrapers, wandering silent streets, and riding out the occasional earthquakes. Will only consider returning to Britain once they've fixed the weather. Contact at: ashley (at) tokyoartbeat.com » 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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