Exhibitions

Miki Tomii “The World of Little Bubbles”

Miki Tomii “The World of Little Bubbles”

Upcoming

03.30 Sat.—04.14 Sun., 2024

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of Miki Tomii, featuring the new works that remind us of the coming of spring.

Tomii uses clay and glass to create her works by playing with “temperature,” “time,” and “gravity.
They let us universally connect to the strength of nature and life and the profound serenity of the world.
She aims to express the intimacy of these different materials by diverting hand kneading, the traditional technique.
The two materials erode each other, and the boundary becomes blurred.
After firing, the pieces are buried in pure white talcum powder in the kiln, and the temperature is lowered over time.
It is a delicate and loving process, like digging out buds from a snowfield.

We will also introduce the new lineup of Tomii’s blown glass.


Riichiro Shinozaki “Vessels of Twinkling Stars”

Riichiro Shinozaki “Vessels of Twinkling Stars”

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09.23 Sat.—10.09 Mon., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Riichiro Shinozaki’s “Vessels of Twinkling Stars.”

Some stories are not to be told but read from.
One person’s back contains enormous memories, sometimes more eloquent than expressions.
Shinozaki aims to unravel them one by one, put them right, and search the stories from their bits of memories in this exhibition.
He likened the backs of the figures to “vessels.” He will depict how the circulating records of daily life have infinite possibilities and are connected to a larger circle.
When the repetition wavers. That is the beginning of creation.

PAINTER CAT Exhibition

PAINTER CAT Exhibition

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09.02 Sat.—09.18 Mon., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present the PAINTER CAT Exhibition by Takuya.

PAINTER CAT, an art brand with the iconic cat character “REXY,” was born just before 2022. Since then, PAINTER CAT has been releasing paintings without a pause.

Cool, cute, and beautiful, REXY has always kept a “REXY-like” personality on canvas and is a fixed symbol.
In contrast, the background’s bright, varied, and fluid colors complement this simple character with white fur.
This contrast between “fixed” and “fluid” is what makes up the image of the PAINTER CAT.

The images include shots of REXY as a model, colorful silhouettes, and REXY in a deformed form, all with an awareness of the “contrast.”
Please enjoy the world of PAINTER CAT.


Masaharu Shin solo exhibition “The Practices of Humanity and Relationships”

Masaharu Shin solo exhibition “The Practices of Humanity and Relationships”

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08.05 Sat.—08.20 Sun., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present Masaharu Shin’s third solo exhibition, “The Practices of Humanity and Relationships.”

Through the first exhibition, Shin started creating a series of artworks as a device to evoke certain emotions. The following year, he evolved the series by adding elements derived from his relationships.

Shin says that his works are also “a way of having conversations with people who like contemporary art,” always arranges readable quotations, does not hide the links with the secular world, and deliberately weaves in the social nature of art.

This exhibition presents his thoughts and current position regarding human beings and relationships.
Please come and enjoy the show.

  • Closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays

Hanako Kimura Exhibition “Reflective Save Points”- OSAKA

Hanako Kimura Exhibition “Reflective Save Points”- OSAKA

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08-03 Thu. — 08-28 Mon., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present “Reflective Save Points,” a solo exhibition by Hanako Kimura in the lounge of THE BOLY OSAKA, 6th floor.

The exhibition will display several series by Kimura in the same space.
In addition to her iconic series “SIGNS FOR [ ],” Kimura will release “SIGN FOR [Summer, 2022],” which has red neon light in the night sky instead of blue neon light in the clear sky, and “My Brand New Shit,” a series of new works that express Kimura’s identity as a contemporary artist.

Many of Kimura’s works have a glossy texture. The surface of acrylic and chrome reflects its surroundings like a mirror, allowing the pieces to interact with each other.
Furthermore, by taking the viewer to the surface, Kimura invites the viewer into a gray zone of “looking/being looked at.”

Venue

THE BOLY OSAKA 6F lounge (1-16, Kitahama2, Chuo-ku, Osaka City, Osaka 541-0041)

  • You can take the elevator to the 6th floor and see the exhibition in the lounge.
  • Guests are staying at the hotel. We kindly ask for your consideration, especially during the nighttime.
  • For inquiries about the exhibition, don’t hesitate to contact PAGIC Gallery. The hotel front desk is unable to assist with that.

Group Show ‘SUILO’

Group Show ‘SUILO’

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7-28 Fri. — 07-31 Mon., 2023

Hanako Kimura / Masaharu Shin / kinwin / Chen Jing-hyung / nelku

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present the group show “SUILO” in Kitahama, Osaka.
Four artists with roots in Japan and abroad, including Taiwan, will gather in Kitahama, Osaka.

SUILO—waterways were urban arteries that transported goods and connected people.
Even after industrialization, which gradually handed over this role to subsequent technologies, waterways have shown us that they are indeed connected, transcending the boundaries between towns and cities, countries and nations, and mountains and oceans.
Even today, when information is transmitted by cable, nostalgic waterways still have the power to draw people to them, giving us an intuitive sense of openness and joy.

SUILO presents artworks with limitless power, like waterways that can float even the heaviest of materials and reach the farthest places.

Artists

HANAKO KIMURA

Born in Kyoto, currently lives in Osaka.
Graduated from Doshisha University, Department of Aesthetics and Art Theory, Faculty of Letters.

Kimura focuses on touching the gray zone that lies between the two extremes of “existence/non-existence” and “different/same.” She develops conceptual works that incorporate a sense of the times.

In recent years, she has not limited herself to photography. Still, she has also been involved in three-dimensional works and installations.

Masaharu Shin

Born in 1996 in Osaka, Japan
Completed with M.A. at the Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School in 2021

Shin explores the significance of art in society.
He is motivated by a genuine interest in what changes have occurred up to the present day and how artists have evolved their thinking and expression. This intuitive and improvisational work is built on a foundation of rational thought that assembles facts.

kinwin

Born in 1982 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Graduated from Fu-Hsin Trade & Arts School in 2001
Graduated from Design and Arts, Dayeh University in 2005

In today’s society, speed is needed to satisfy various needs, and there is a sense of urgency about people, things, and events. Kinwin believes that by slowing down, searching deep into our hearts, and questioning our fundamental selves, we can make everything meaningful because people have the desired happiness.

Although all of this may seem at odds with each other, the concept of “sacrifice” that lies within and beyond the concepts of right and wrong gives the viewer dreams and hopes, expressing blessings in a unique and fantastical worldview.

Chen Jingheng

Born in 1996 in Taiwan
Graduated from Hsing Wu University

Something cultivated through the interaction between Taiwanese pop culture and temple culture has taken shape one after another in the creation of the “Happy Birds Days” series.
The concepts of the series are “Creation,” “Positivity,” “Cooperation,” and “Lovely.”
By drawing artworks from museums and galleries and collaborating with his worldview and various life scenes, he energetically creates artworks that can “make everyone even happier.”

*A show by Eunoia will be held at the same venue. Please enjoy it as well.

nelku

Graduated from Bunka Fashion College in 2018

Nelku changes her residence every month and travels around the world.
Nelku creates focusing on illustration and animation.

The emotions and memories of people resonate with her and inspire her artwork.

Inspired by empathy for people’s feelings and memories, the series “Memories” is based on photographs of memories and episodes, and the paintings are interspersed with unrealistic motifs associated with them.
The works are somehow nostalgic, even though they are not his own memories.

See Also

AFFORDANCE
by Eunoia

Date & Time

7-28 Fri. — 07-31 Mon., 2023
11:00–19:00 (Last day until 4:00 p.m.)

Venue

KITAHAMA N GALLERY
(The basement of THE BOLY OSAKA, 1-16, Kitahama 1, Osaka City)


Mariko Yamazaki exhibition ‘GR27B9

Mariko Yamazaki exhibition ‘GR27B9

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07-07 Fri. — 07-23, Sun., 2023
* Opening day starts at 4 pm 

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present Yamazaki’s solo exhibition entitled “GR27B9”.
The stage for this exhibition will be Yamazaki’s memories and records of her travels to various places and her return.
She captured what moved her emotions through her eyes, photographs, and rough sketches.

The paints in the sketches are carefully recorded to express her fresh memories.
GR27 and B9 are derived from the letters and numbers assigned by the artist to manage the colors.

The time spent with the trimmed sceneries, the colors converted into paints, and the brush closing the usual application to create a work of art depicts the expectations and emotions of the journey until they become artworks can also be called a ramble.

We hope you will enjoy the experience of reliving a short trip.

MARIKO YAMAZAKI

Illustrator / Lives and Works in Kyoto.0
Graduated from Osaka Municipal Kogei High School Design Course
Graduated from Osaka Designer’s College, Department of Graphic Design

Since 2001, she has worked on illustrations for men’s fashion magazines and other publications. She is known for her realistic and stylish depictions, from landscapes to portraits. Her warm touch and dramatic presentation that makes full use of light and dark and shading, despite his use of digital technology, are very appealing.

By courtesy of VISION TRACK


Momo Hoshitani exhibition “365”

Momo Hoshitani exhibition “365”

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06-03 Sat. — 06-18 Sun., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present Momo Hoshitani’s solo exhibition “365”.

Hoshitani depicts a variety of people in a wide range of life stages.

Each of them is outstandingly humorous, pop, and fresh. The vivid and slightly mysterious scenes are like miracles of precious moments. But each painting, each moment, is a normal, everyday life.

“Every moment of every day is precious” is carefully expressed through 365 days of daily life. Please enjoy the brilliance of life as seen through Hoshitani’s eyes.

Closed: Wednesdays and Thursdays

HANAKO KIMURA solo exhibition “Reflective Save Points”

HANAKO KIMURA solo exhibition “Reflective Save Points”

Archive

05-13 Sat. — 05-28, Sun., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present “Reflective Save Points,” a solo exhibition by Hanako Kimura.

The exhibition will display several series by Kimura in the same space.
In addition to her iconic series “SIGN FOR [ ],” Kimura will release “SIGNS FOR [Summer, 2022],” which have red neon light in the night sky instead of blue neon light in the clear sky, and “My Brand New Shit,” a series of new works that express Kimura’s identity as a contemporary artist.

Many of Kimura’s works have a glossy texture. The surface of acrylic and chrome reflects its surroundings like a mirror, allowing the pieces to interact with each other.
Furthermore, by taking the viewer to the surface, Kimura invites the viewer into a gray zone of “looking/being looked at.”

closed: Wednesdays and Thursdays
Artist in the gallery: May 13, 14, 20, 21


toetiee exhibition “If I had wheels, I would be a bike.”

toetiee exhibition “If I had wheels, I would be a bike.”

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04-15 Sat. —04-30 sun., 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of toetiee “If I had wheels, I would be a bike.”
toetiee majored in Production Design in the US and advertising design in Europe. She has built her career in New York, Tokyo, and Amsterdam. This is the first solo exhibition in Tokyo for the artist, who has returned 5Japan to work as an artist.

toetiee works with acrylic paint, risograph printing, and other media. Her works embrace imperfection, offering glimpses of her humanity through their gaps and scuffs.

In this exhibition, she will present new pieces, including an installation, on the theme of “Bike.” Bikes, or tricycles and bicycles, are the first means of transportation that many people acquire, and they symbolize physical and mental freedom.
Visitors can view the works on a tricycle so that they can be in the shoes of a child. Please enjoy the experience of becoming a part of the bike and the artwork itself.

If I had wheels, I would be a bike.

If you attach wheels, anything can become a bike.
You can run to wherever you like and call it when you need it.
And the moment you sit on a bike, you also get wheels, transforming yourself into an original bike that can take you wherever you want to go.

Artist’s Statement – toetiee

toetiee

Artist / Resident of Nanto City, Toyama Prefecture
2002 – Graduated from the School of Filmmaking, Production Design at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, USA
2012 – Graduated from the Advertising Art Direction at Miami Ad School in Hamburg, Germany

[Experience]
2002 – Assistant Designer, Set Design Studio, New York, U.S.A.
2003 – Producer, major advertising agency, Tokyo, Japan
2005 – Graphic Designer, Design Studio, Tokyo, Japan
2012 – Conceptor and Designer, Advertising Agency, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2014 – Freelance Art Director and Designer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2015 – Art Director and Designer, Toyama, Japan
2018 – Developed PPPD: persistent perceptible posture-induced dizziness
2021 – Opened “Risogura,” a hands-on risograph printing studio

[Awards]

2013
*Clio Awards 2015, Direct Bronze
*Cannes Lions,2013, Shortlisted

2015
*One Show 2015 Social Media Silver Pencil
*One Show 2015 FilmBronze Pencil
The New York Festival, 2015 Direct & Collateral SECOND PRIZE AWARD
The New York Festival, 2015 Film THIRD PRIZE AWARD
*Cannes Lions, 2015 CYBER SILVER 
*Cannes Lions, 2015 FILM BRONZE 
*Clio Awards 2015, Engagement/Experiential Bronze
Epica Awards 2015 Direct Marketing Glod & Grand Prix

2021
TOYAMA ADC Award, Runner-up Grand Prix

And more

*The World’s Top Three Advertising Awards

Instagram @toetiee_0

Shoichi Tsurukawa Exhibition

Shoichi Tsurukawa Exhibition

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03-21 Tue —04-02 Sun, 2023

PAGIC Gallery is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of Shoichi Tsurukawa.
Tsurukawa uses a dyeing technique called “tsutsugaki,” in which he paints his works as if projecting his inner, mixed world.
Tsurukawa creates a unique matiere by sewing the dyed fabric and creating a three-dimensional effect, which makes the most of the characteristics of the support medium, cotton cloth.
The composition of his paintings, which are based on “precision” and “delicacy,” can be said to be the very act of gouging out the artist’s sensitive feelings.
The stubborn core of the artist’s desire to depict the essence of human nature – something common to all human beings with the surface scraped off – never fades away, and the artist’s “ideals” and “life” pile up like debris shattered by reality.
The world of Shoichi Tsurukawa, drowning in colorful joy, anger, sorrow, and pleasure, exists here.

Shoichi Tsurukawa 鶴川勝一
Born in Tokyo, 1984.

Instagram @shoichi_tsurukawa
http://kinoshokikaku.jp/home/artists/tsurukawa/

Miki Tomii Solo Exhibiton “AONOSEKAI”

Miki Tomii Solo Exhibiton “AONOSEKAI”

Archive

02-18 sat—03-12 sun, 2023

  • Closed on Wednesdays and Thursdays
    (Exception: Open on Thursday/Holiday 23, instead of Tuesday 21 closing)
  • Close at 6:00 p.m. on the last day

Tomii’s artworks were created by the bargaining of ‘temperature,’ ‘time,’ and ‘gravity’ using clay and glass.
They fundamentally contain the strength of nature and life, a profound serenity, and a gentleness that universally connects to them all.

Her experimental approach, in which she constantly repeats “reaction” and “transformation” in pursuit of a form suitable for her own expression, is her specialty. By diverting hand building, she aims to express the intimacy of different materials, clay and glass. She explores the ambiguity of erosion and boundary in the world woven by the different materials.

The process of removing a work of art buried in pure white talc powder from the kiln, where the temperature has been lowered over time, is like that of budding crystals carefully dug out from a field of snow. It forms delicate colors and shapes.
Tomii adds a mineral attraction to the glass, seeking a method to interact with the glass itself.

Miki Tomii | 冨井弥樹

Born in Yamagata Pref., 1997.
Graduated from Akita Public University of Arts, Course of Creative Manufacturing Design.
Completed a master’s degree in glass art at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2022.
Currently working as a trainee at the Seto City New Century Crafts Museum.
Instagram @miki.tomii

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