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Tokyu Plaza Shibuya
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Mirai Mizue, Kaoru Hirano, Emi Mizukami
This exhibition, a new frontier for Tokyu Plaza Shibuya, will introduce three up-and-coming artists using the keyword “dawn” as a metaphor for the beginning of a new era. Selected are works that gently call on the physical senses of people living in cities and invite them to deep insights.
The works shown on the third floor are from the ‘Modern’ series by internationally renowned animation artist Mirai Mizue. Mizue’s works, in which geometric images reminiscent of a city fluctuate at high speed, give us a sense of the human body that has been left behind in the ever-changing Tokyo, its confusion, and its antithesis to capitalism. All of these works encourage us to become aware of the subtleties of the modern human body and mind, which are difficult to capture in words, and the fluctuations of society itself.
On the windowsill of the 6th floor, a delicate installation by Kaoru Hirano, who unravels and reconstructs clothes and fabrics down to the last thread, will be displayed. For this exhibition, Hirano will present an installation of unraveled umbrellas made in former East Germany, which are related to the artist, from her ‘Rain series, which also attracted attention at her solo exhibition ‘Memory and History’ held in 2018 at the Pola Museum of Art. The aim of Hirano’s style is to make the twisted and faded colors of the umbrellas more apparent by returning them to their original state and to strongly evoke the presence and physicality of the people who wore them, as well as their personal memories. The works have the power to make viewers feel the importance and magnanimity of seamlessly considering the public time of history and society and the private time of personal memories.
On the seventh floor, visitors can view the paintings of artist Aimi Mizukami from 2017 to 2021. In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, Mizukami became more aware of the fact that she was living in the time between disasters, and as an expression of this awareness, she painted in fluorescent colors, which are dangerous and fade quickly, until 2017. Since then, she has been looking at the world on a larger scale, and from 2018 until today, she has been trying to capture a different time axis from the “here and now” in which modern people live through her paintings while increasing her originality by mixing the world’s oldest desert sand and shell powder in her materials.
Venue: 3F “111-Ichiichiichi” Front: Mirai Mizue, 6F Urban Core: Kaoru Hirano, 7F Event Space: Emi Mizukami
The works shown on the third floor are from the ‘Modern’ series by internationally renowned animation artist Mirai Mizue. Mizue’s works, in which geometric images reminiscent of a city fluctuate at high speed, give us a sense of the human body that has been left behind in the ever-changing Tokyo, its confusion, and its antithesis to capitalism. All of these works encourage us to become aware of the subtleties of the modern human body and mind, which are difficult to capture in words, and the fluctuations of society itself.
On the windowsill of the 6th floor, a delicate installation by Kaoru Hirano, who unravels and reconstructs clothes and fabrics down to the last thread, will be displayed. For this exhibition, Hirano will present an installation of unraveled umbrellas made in former East Germany, which are related to the artist, from her ‘Rain series, which also attracted attention at her solo exhibition ‘Memory and History’ held in 2018 at the Pola Museum of Art. The aim of Hirano’s style is to make the twisted and faded colors of the umbrellas more apparent by returning them to their original state and to strongly evoke the presence and physicality of the people who wore them, as well as their personal memories. The works have the power to make viewers feel the importance and magnanimity of seamlessly considering the public time of history and society and the private time of personal memories.
On the seventh floor, visitors can view the paintings of artist Aimi Mizukami from 2017 to 2021. In the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011, Mizukami became more aware of the fact that she was living in the time between disasters, and as an expression of this awareness, she painted in fluorescent colors, which are dangerous and fade quickly, until 2017. Since then, she has been looking at the world on a larger scale, and from 2018 until today, she has been trying to capture a different time axis from the “here and now” in which modern people live through her paintings while increasing her originality by mixing the world’s oldest desert sand and shell powder in her materials.
Venue: 3F “111-Ichiichiichi” Front: Mirai Mizue, 6F Urban Core: Kaoru Hirano, 7F Event Space: Emi Mizukami
Schedule | Jun 29 (Tue) 2021-Jul 22 (Thu) 2021 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Tokyu Plaza Shibuya https://shibuya.tokyu-plaza.com/en/  | ||||
| Location | Shibuya Fukuras, 1-2-3 Dogenzaka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0043 | ||||
| Access | Direct walk from the West exit of JR Shibuya Station. | ||||
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