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Tsuyoshi Ozawa "Pangaea"
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Tsuyoshi Ozawa
MISA SHIN GALLERY is pleased to present Ozawa Tsuyoshi’s solo exhibition Pangaea, on view from November 4 through December 6, 2025. The exhibition takes the concept of “Pangaea”— the primordial supercontinent in which all the world’s landmasses were once connected— as a point of departure to envision an image of “a world as one” in our present age, where divisions deepen across various aspects of society.
In 2024, Ozawa conducted a workshop in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, inviting eight citizens from diverse backgrounds to draw world maps purely from memory. He then cut and reassembled each map like puzzle pieces, merging them into a single continent. Onto these reconfigured maps, the artist layered impressions from his conversations with the participants as well as their favorite colors, creating eight distinct visions of Pangaea.
In addition to this painting series, the exhibition features several new works, including I turned a Gennai-ware world map into a single continent (2025), a reconstruction inspired by an Edo-period world-map plate from The Kagawa Museum’s collection of Gennai ware (a type of tricolor ceramic produced under the guidance of Hiraga Gennai). Other highlights include Pangaea Globe, in which Ozawa paints the supercontinent on a wooden sphere made from felled trees, and new paintings depicting his own version of Pangaea.
“Whether we feel it or not,” Ozawa reflects, “the ground we live on is always moving slowly. In hundreds of millions of years, the six continents will collide, connect, and eventually become one again. When I think about the Earth on that kind of scale, the fragmented and dysfunctional world we live in today starts to feel so small and insignificant. It might be a bit forced, but I wondered if it was possible to visualize the idea of the world being one.”
Art may not have the power to change the world in an instant, yet Ozawa believes in the quiet force of art, its ability to gradually and deeply permeate people’s hearts and minds, and he continues to listen closely to that potential. Without fueling division in the name of righteousness or surrendering to despair, his works manifest a modest, human-sized wish—an image of unity embodied in the form of the ancient supercontinent, Pangaea.
In 2024, Ozawa conducted a workshop in Beppu, Oita Prefecture, inviting eight citizens from diverse backgrounds to draw world maps purely from memory. He then cut and reassembled each map like puzzle pieces, merging them into a single continent. Onto these reconfigured maps, the artist layered impressions from his conversations with the participants as well as their favorite colors, creating eight distinct visions of Pangaea.
In addition to this painting series, the exhibition features several new works, including I turned a Gennai-ware world map into a single continent (2025), a reconstruction inspired by an Edo-period world-map plate from The Kagawa Museum’s collection of Gennai ware (a type of tricolor ceramic produced under the guidance of Hiraga Gennai). Other highlights include Pangaea Globe, in which Ozawa paints the supercontinent on a wooden sphere made from felled trees, and new paintings depicting his own version of Pangaea.
“Whether we feel it or not,” Ozawa reflects, “the ground we live on is always moving slowly. In hundreds of millions of years, the six continents will collide, connect, and eventually become one again. When I think about the Earth on that kind of scale, the fragmented and dysfunctional world we live in today starts to feel so small and insignificant. It might be a bit forced, but I wondered if it was possible to visualize the idea of the world being one.”
Art may not have the power to change the world in an instant, yet Ozawa believes in the quiet force of art, its ability to gradually and deeply permeate people’s hearts and minds, and he continues to listen closely to that potential. Without fueling division in the name of righteousness or surrendering to despair, his works manifest a modest, human-sized wish—an image of unity embodied in the form of the ancient supercontinent, Pangaea.
Schedule | Nov 4 (Tue) 2025-Dec 6 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Nov 8 (Sat) 2025 17:00 - 19:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.misashin.com/en/exhibitions-en/ozawa-tsuyoshi-pangaea-en/ | ||||
| Venue | Misa Shin Gallery http://www.misashin.com/ | ||||
| Location | 1F 3-9-11 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047 | ||||
| Access | 11 minute walk from exit 4 at Shirokane-takanawa Station on the Namboku or Toei Mita line, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6450-2334 | ||||
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