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Yoshimi Miyamoto "Internal sight"
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Yoshimi Miyamoto
Imura art gallery is pleased to announce that it will host the sixth solo exhibition by Yoshimi Miyamoto.
An artist who has single mindedly pursued monochromatic painting since her college years, Miyamoto has maintained a simple passion at the center of her artistic journey―to capture the phenomenon we call light.
Her exploration began with presentations of light passing through pressed or freeze-dried flowers, and grew to encompass works such as images of light and shadows cast on sculptures or white-dyed flowers, and impressions of potted flowers bathed in the intense sunlight of a foreign setting. While her paintings incorporate a diverse array of subjects for their motifs, they all embody Miyamoto’s quest to understand how to capture light.
In 2022, Miyamoto unveiled a set of new light-themed paintings that used as motifs the glassware creations of Émile Gallé and the Daum brothers. Describing the process behind them, she explained, “I painted three types of light―light that expresses the radiance of the glass surface, light that passes through the glass from the inside, and light that enables us to distinguish objects. ... As I painted, however, I was gnawed at by this feeling that I wasn’t fully engaging with the glass itself. It was a sense that I was painting the phenomena occurring on the surface of the glass.”
The upcoming solo exhibition will present new paintings that depict plants encased in ice. This new motif goes back to her thwarted attempted to capture glass itself and uses the space artificially created within ice to evoke the world between the front and back surfaces of glass. These works, with their depiction of the explosion of bubbles formed within that tiny space, seem to express the artist’s enduring craving for light.
Be sure to visit and see the latest stop on Miyamoto’s journey of exploring light.
An artist who has single mindedly pursued monochromatic painting since her college years, Miyamoto has maintained a simple passion at the center of her artistic journey―to capture the phenomenon we call light.
Her exploration began with presentations of light passing through pressed or freeze-dried flowers, and grew to encompass works such as images of light and shadows cast on sculptures or white-dyed flowers, and impressions of potted flowers bathed in the intense sunlight of a foreign setting. While her paintings incorporate a diverse array of subjects for their motifs, they all embody Miyamoto’s quest to understand how to capture light.
In 2022, Miyamoto unveiled a set of new light-themed paintings that used as motifs the glassware creations of Émile Gallé and the Daum brothers. Describing the process behind them, she explained, “I painted three types of light―light that expresses the radiance of the glass surface, light that passes through the glass from the inside, and light that enables us to distinguish objects. ... As I painted, however, I was gnawed at by this feeling that I wasn’t fully engaging with the glass itself. It was a sense that I was painting the phenomena occurring on the surface of the glass.”
The upcoming solo exhibition will present new paintings that depict plants encased in ice. This new motif goes back to her thwarted attempted to capture glass itself and uses the space artificially created within ice to evoke the world between the front and back surfaces of glass. These works, with their depiction of the explosion of bubbles formed within that tiny space, seem to express the artist’s enduring craving for light.
Be sure to visit and see the latest stop on Miyamoto’s journey of exploring light.
Schedule | Feb 8 (Sat) 2025-Mar 1 (Sat) 2025 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.imuraart.com/exhibition/2025/01/post-26.html | ||||
| Venue | Imura Art Gallery Kyoto https://www.imuraart.com/ | ||||
| Location | 31 Higashi Maruta-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 606-8395 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from exit 4 at Jingu Marutamachi Station on the Keihan line. | ||||
| Phone | 075-761-7372 | ||||
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