Ikuko Miyazaki ""Wally and Egon"

Museum Haus Kasuya

Finished

Artists

Ikuko Miyazaki

Ikuko Miyazaki, who has been familiar with dolls since her childhood and has been a self-taught doll maker, encountered the works of Egon Schiele (1890-1918), a Viennese turn-of-the-century painter, through an art book in 1995, and has continued to create her work based on Schiele's paintings as if guided by them. Rather than merely tracing the characters in the paintings as forms, Miyazaki approaches the paintings as if she were in dialogue with the models, touching them as they move across time and space.

The previous exhibition, "Ikuko Miyazaki: Egon Schiele in the Form of a Figure," held at the museum in 2017, was a great success, attracting visitors with life-size statues of Schiele and fresh-looking models drawn from Miyazaki's paintings. In the late fall of the same year, Miyazaki was allowed to spend a residency at Schiele's studio in Cesky Krumlov, where she brought a statue of Schiele larger than himself from Japan and spent time with it, creating new works while feeling Schiele's presence. The following year, from 2018 to 2019, Miyazaki realized her long-cherished goal of holding a solo exhibition at the "Egon Schiele Art Centrum" entitled "Ikuko Miyazaki Exhibition 100 Years after the Death of Egon Schiele." Having achieved one of her goals, Miyazaki's love for Schiele has never ceased, and she continues to look at Schiele's work every day to catch the energy they emit.

Schedule

Mar 11 (Sat) 2023-May 21 (Sun) 2023