EXHIBITION

We are pleased to announce our participation in the exhibition ""Dawn" CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION" to be held at Iwataya Honten, Fukuoka, Japan.
From DMOARTS, works by Mie Takahashi, Rentaro Kawamoto, Ryoki Kurasaki, and Masamitsu Okada will be exhibited.

[Artist]
Mie Takahashi
Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1994, he graduated from Yokohama College of Art and Design in 2017, and currently lives and works in Kamakura. Inspired by the doodles he casually draws on a daily basis, he creates paintings and three-dimensional works. His colorful works with abstract shapes are based on terra cotta and resin. He paints over them with his original paints and finishes them with gradation.
instagram：@mie___takahashi

Rentaro Kawamoto
Born in 1991 in Kanagawa, Japan, he graduated from the Textile Design Course in the Crafts Area at Yokohama College of Art in 2015 and completed the Sculpture Course at the same university as a research student in 2005. He continues to work mainly with textiles, focusing on the unique textures and colors of dyed fabrics and the background and story behind the materials as important elements of his work.
instagram：@rentarokawamoto

Ryoki Kurasaki
Born 1995 in Fukuoka, Japan. He creates works that encourage viewers to reexamine life and death and to be aware of the cycle of life and death through works such as portraits on canvas that are burned in a fire and wax paintings that are molded by taking a mold of the painting and pouring melted wax into the mold, which melts like a candle.
instagram：@ryokikura

Masamitsu Okada
Born 1987 in Hyogo Prefecture. Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2010. Since graduation, he has been working as a graphic designer/artist under the name OMD (O.M.D.). In parallel with client work, he produces works and zines on the theme of shapes, letters, and compositions, and since 2018, he has been developing graphics/artwork using 3DCG.
instagram：@okada_masamitsu


[Overview]
『“Dawn” CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITION』
・Date and Time
3/8(Wed.)～3/12(Sun) 10：00～20：00
*Close at 17:00 on the last day only.
・Venue
Iwataya Main Store, Main Building, 7th floor, Main Event Hall
(2-5-35 Tenjin, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka 810-8680, Japan)
For more information, click here.


Art, like music, is familiar to people, appeals to the viewer's sensitivity, and enriches the mind. The message contained in a work of art can be a hint for thought, and coming into contact with the temperament and personality of the artist can be a source of vitality for tomorrow. Encountering art that resonates with one's sensibilities can change one's sense of values and even one's way of life. In this exhibition, the Iwataya flagship store will showcase works by both young artists and masters from Japan and abroad that it recommends today.

We are pleased to announce that we will exhibit at the art market "ART MARKET TENNOZ 2023" to be held in Tennoz.
From DMOARTS, works by Aya Kurashiki, HAYATO MACHIDA, Saki Matsumura, Saneyuki Matsumoto, and Rei Kizumoto will be exhibited.

[Artist]
Aya Kurashiki
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1993. Currently based in Tokyo.
Major awards include "SPART 2017" (Akira Asada Award, 2017), "Shell Art Award 2020" (The National Art Center, Tokyo), "VIVA AWARD 2021" (Associate Artist, 2021), "WATOWA ART AWARD" (Grand Prix Award, 2021), "elephant STUDIO (Tokyo), etc.
Recent exhibitions include "(((((," Komagome Warehouse, Tokyo (2022); solo exhibition, "Asakanari, Shizen ni naka shizen ni ka. Wada Gallery, Tokyo; "Idemitsu Art Award Artist Selection" (recommended by Eriko Kimura, chief curator of Yokohama Museum of Art) at The National Art Center, Tokyo in 2022; "3331 transformed art into ''" at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo in 2023, and others.
Completed graduate studies at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2018, and Tokyo University of the Arts in 2020.
He is a student of the 26th term of the Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation. Third term student of the Kuma Foundation.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

■ Artist Statement
Kurashiki has consistently considered the distance between himself and others in the solitary existence of human beings absolutely cut off by the material wall of the body, or the categorization attached to it. In his works, Kurashiki deals with multiple media such as performance and installation, mainly two-dimensional works using transfer techniques, and attempts to communicate closely with others, seek coexistence, or fuse with others. For example, he creates works in order to even out the divide created by the fact that we have separate bodies, and to coexist with others in the real world. Or, as the ultimate form of such an act, production as an act of aiming for nirvana, in which each being is freed from its body, and while existing as an individual, blends into the whole and becomes one with the whole. Or, as a countermeasure to loneliness, the act of weaving a temporary (assumed) close relationship between the viewer and oneself by somehow inserting the work between them.
instagram：@ayakurashiki


HAYATO MACHIDA
Born in 1995 in Okinawa, Japan.
He began painting on his own, and when he was 21 years old, he met Yuken Teruya in New York, where he was studying abroad, and began working as an artist after returning to Japan. He has provided HY tour goods and adidas event logos.
Major exhibitions include "ART WONDERLAND" at Sogo Yokohama (Kanagawa/2023), "INDEPENDENT TOKYO 2022 SELECTION" at Hankyu MEN 'S TOKYO Tugboat Gallery (Tokyo/2023), "SHIBUYA STYLE VOL,16" Seibu Shibuya (Tokyo/2022), "UNKNOWN ASIA 2022 " Grand Front Osaka (Osaka/2022), "Okinawans" GALLERY ROUGHERYET (Okinawa/2022), "GEISAI #21" TOKYO BIG SITE (Tokyo/2022), "INDEPENDENT TOKYO 2022" at Tokyo Port City Takeshiba (Tokyo/2022).
Awards include the "INDEPENDENT TOKYO 2022" Tugboat Special Award (2022) and the "Turner Award 2018" Future Award (2018).

■ Artist Statement
His paintings are composed of elements inherited from Japanese and American pop culture, subculture, and local culture, which deeply influenced him while growing up. The ambivalent feelings that form the concept of his work are born from his doubts about his own sense of "being alive" and his thoughts on the social and political situation at times. The white color sprinkled in his works is a presence that appears when he reaches a point of feeling as if he wants to disappear, and it represents the confusion or neutralization of psychological thoughts and biological instincts.
instagram：@hayato_machida_


Saki Matsumura
Born in Nagano, Japan in 1993.
Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Arts and Crafts, Oil Painting Course, 2015.
Completed the graduate course in painting at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2017.
Currently based in Kyoto.
Major solo exhibitions to date include "The eyes : They see" (DMOARTS/2019), "- see sew scene -ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO SATELLITE" (ygion/ 2021).
Major group exhibitions and art fairs include ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI (2017), ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO (2018), UNKNOWN ASIA Art Exchange Osaka 2019 (2019), ART TAIPEI 2020 (2020), ART OSAKA WALL (2020), DELTA Exhibition (2021).

■ Artist Statement
He creates dynamic paintings by combining hard-edged colored surfaces created by spraying and silk-screening with uneven surfaces covered with heavy layers of paint. The clash of different elements creates a strange harmony that opens up the imagination to new sensations.
instagram：@sakimatsumura_


Saneyuki Matsumoto
1988 Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
2017 Started working mainly on client work.
2021 Started working mainly in the production of art works.
2021 First solo exhibition.
Major exhibitions include "us" (Bricolage, Hyogo/2022), Kobe Art Marché 2022 (Hyogo/2022), Independent Tokyo 2022 (Tokyo/2022), Any Kobe 2022 (Hyogo/2022), UNKNOWN ASIA 2022 (Osaka/2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL TAIPEI (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022), 100 People 10 (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL TAIPEI (Tokyo/2022), and A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022). 2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2022), 100 People 10 (Tokyo/2022), A4 WALL TAIPEI (Taipei/2022), A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA (Tokyo/2023), Kobe Art Marché 2023 (Hyogo/2023).
Awards include: 74th Gen-Ten, Honorable Mention (2018); 62nd Takarazuka City Exhibition, Tessai Art Museum Prize (2019); 44th Kobe Citizen's Art Exhibition, Kobe City Workers' Welfare Council Prize (2019); 21st Hotel La Suite DKGAP, Honorable Mention (2019); 24th Art Move Competition, Honorable Mention (2019); 69th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Honorable Mention (2019); 2nd 69th Nishinomiya City Exhibition, Honorable Mention, (2019), The 6th Tokyo Costume Design Award, Honorable Mention, (2019), The 2nd Grammatology Award, Honorable Mention, (2020).

■ Artist Statement
His works are mainly based on subcultures and Japanese illustration expressions of the 80s and 90s.
The theme of his work is to preserve pop culture, such as character expression, which is not often discussed in Western art history, in the form of art rather than illustration.
Each portrait depicts the same face. This is based on the artist's will to preserve the illustrative expression of the period in which the work was created, and the idea that by depicting the same, unifying face, the work can be viewed as if it were the viewer or a closely related person.
He works mainly with acrylics on canvas.
instagram：@m.saneyuki


Rei Kizumoto
1998 Born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
2021 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, majoring in oil painting.
2023 Scheduled to graduate from Kyoto University of Arts with a Master's degree in Oil Painting in the field of Arts and Crafts. (Final education)
Major exhibitions include "ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2022" (Kyoto, March 2022), group exhibition "grid" at biscuit gallery (Tokyo, March 2022), group exhibition "awkward sensation" at YOD TOKYO (Tokyo, October 2022), "3331ART FAIR" at DMOARTS Gallery (Tokyo, October 2022), and "Fiction and Feeling 3331ART FAIR," DMOARTS Gallery (Tokyo, October 2022), "Fiction and Feeling," Seibu Ikebukuro main store (Tokyo, November 2022).

■ Artist Statement
Colored or cut felt is placed on the floor.
Felt absorbs and reflects light, and the danger of color lurks.
It follows the light while pushing it onto the screen along with time and space.
He creates his works by interacting with materials, colors, and himself.
instagram：@rei2painting


[Overview]
『ART MARKET TENNOZ 2023』
・Date and Time
3/3(Fri.)～5(Sun.)11:00～18:00
*Close at 17:00 on the last day only
・Location
WHAT CAFE
(1-11, Higashi-Shinagawa 2-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002, Japan)

DMOARTS is pleased to announce its participation in ONE ART TAIPEI 2023, an international hotel art fair in Taipei.
From DMOARTS, works by Keeenue, Ryoki Kurasaki, Saki Matsumura, and Koga Miura will be exhibited.

[Artist]
Keeenue
Born in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1992, an artist currently residing in Kamakura.
She is develops a wide range of activities such as mural painting, presentation of paintings and three-dimensional works, and artwork provision.
Her unique and vivid view of the world, which is both figurative and abstract painting, has been supported by many people, and she has exhibited her works in various countries such as the United States, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
She has also worked on numerous collaborations with Nike, Facebook, SHAKE SHACK, etc., and is attracting attention.
Her major solo exhibitions include “The Me in the Mirror” (OIL by Bijutsu Techo / 2022) and “ODD ONE OUT” (HARUKAITO by island / 2021).
instagram：@keeenue_

Ryoki Kurasaki
Born in Fukuoka in 1995. Lives and works in Fukuoka.
Life and death are expressed through works such as portraits drawn on canvas that are burned with fire, and wax paintings molded by pouring melted wax into a mold and melted like a candle. I encourage people to reconsider and create works that are conscious of circulation.
His major solo exhibitions include “Traces Of The Soul” (DMOARTS Osaka / 2019), “Remains” Gallery Kogure Tokyo / 2019), and “The Garden of Traces” (Hiro Hiro Art Space Taipei/2022).
Major art fairs include "Art NAGOYA 2021" (Gallery Kogure Aichi / 2021), "ART FAIR TOKYO 2021" (Gallery Kogure Tokyo / 2021), and "Art Osaka 2021" (DMOARTS Osaka / 2021).
instagram：@ryokikura

Saki Matsumura
Born in Nagano Prefecture in 1993.In 2017, completed the painting course at the Kyoto University of Art and Design. Currently, he is based in Kyoto and is engaged in production activities.
She is creates dynamic paintings by combining hard-edged colored surfaces with spray and silk screens, and irregularities in which paint is heavily applied. The clash of different elements shows a strange harmony and expands the imagination to new sensations.
Her major solo exhibitions so far include “The eyes: They see”(DMOARTS / 2019),“– see sew scene – ARTISTS’ FAIR KYOTO SATELLITE”(ygion / 2021).
Major group exhibitions and art fairs include "Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi"(2017),"ARTISTS'FAIR KYOTO"(2018),"UNKNOWN ASIA Art Exchange Osaka 2019"(2019), "ART TAIPEI 2020"(2020),"ART OSAKA WALL"(2020),"DELTA Exhibition"(2021),etc.
instagram：@sakimatsumura_

Miura Koga
He creates two-dimensional works with the theme of searching for the "boundary between consciousness and unconsciousness". In order to reduce the arbitrariness that arises in the process of shaping an image, he primarily decides on the color scheme and composition in advance by means of random numbers, and takes the method of shaping it manually.
By mixing the mechanical impression created by repeating simple tasks as instructed and the irregular facial expressions created by hand drawing on the screen, you can perceive both your own assumptions and unexpected phenomena.
By going back and forth between the expected and the unexpected, I want to express the beauty that comes from the combination of various external factors that exist contrary to my own expectations.
Major solo exhibitions include “come and go” (DMOARTS Osaka / 2022) and “MtK +” (MtK Contemporary Art Kyoto / 2022).
Major group exhibitions and art fairs include "POLYPHONY" ARARIO gallery (Shanghai), "ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO2022" Kyoto Museum Annex (Kyoto), "humarishclub exhibition" humorishclub (Macao), "ART OSAKA 2021,2022" Central Public Hall (Osaka), "3331 ART FAIR" Arts Chiyoda (Tokyo), "Up_02" Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore GINZA ATRIUM (Tokyo), "Contemporary Tea Ceremony Style Exhibition-enishi Vol.12" Seibu Shibuya (Tokyo), etc.
instagram：@koga_miura2343

[Overview]
『ONE ART TAIPEI 2023』

・Date and Time
Public Days：2023.1.14(Sat)-15(Sun)　12:00 - 20:00
Collector Preview：1.13(Fri) 13:00 - 20:00
VIP Preview：1.13(Fri) 16:00 - 20:00

・Venue
Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei
No. 133, Sec.3, Nanjing E. Rd., Zhongshan Dist., Taipei, Taiwan

・Official Website
https://www.onearttaipei.com/

ONE ART TAIPEI (OAT) has many years of experience in producing international art fairs and aims to organize the best hotel art fair in Asia.
Among many art fairs, the ONE ART Taipei Committee has received awards including one of the 10 recommended art fairs in LA VIE 2015's "Taiwan's Cultural and Creative Industry 100" and the 2015 TID Award of Space Installation Art.
This year, ONE ART TAIPEI 2022 was not influenced by fashion trends and succeeded in inviting many outstanding galleries from Taiwan and abroad to participate, attracting over 10,000 visitors and bringing in excellent sales. With much support and recognition, OAT will continue to promote the beauty of contemporary art by hosting five hotel fairs from January 13 to 15, 2023 (13th: Collectors and VIP Preview).

Skeleton Crew Studio and DMOARTS are pleased to present "Creative Xcross," an exhibition combining their respective fields of expertise: digital technology for Skeleton Crew Studio and contemporary art for DMOARTS. We will introduce the works of artists who extend the expression of art from multiple perspectives, such as 3DCG, video, painting, etc., and create new intersections between them. Please take this opportunity to visit the exhibition.


【Dates】
11/11 Fri. - 11/13 Sun. 11/18 Fri. - 11/20 Sun.
【Open】
12:00 - 19:00
【Reception】
2022 11/19 Sat. 17:00 -
【Venue】
1F Skeleton Crew Studio O-DEN Bldg. 38-1 Koromonotana-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto, 604-8203
【Artists】
Masamitsu Okada(OMD), xorium, Sakiki Matsumura, Kotomi Mizobata
【Organizer】
Skeleton Crew Studio, DMOARTS
【Sponsor】
Nue Corporation, Buckskin Beer, Jienenosake Meguru
【Supporter】
UNKNOWN ASIA, FM802, FM COCOLO

DMOARTS is pleased to announce our participation in the art fair "3331 ART FAIR 2022" in Tokyo, Japan, featuring works by Mana Kawamura, Rei Kizumoto and Mitsumasa Miura.
Selection-GYM will also feature works by Kurumi Kotani, Yui Samejima, NAZE, Seisuke Nihira, and Sakiki Matsumura, as recommended by Ryo Takahashi, the gallery's director. Please see both of them together.

[Artist]
Mana Kawamura
Texts quoted from domestic and foreign literary works are expressed in acrylic paintings by the phenomenon that the paint flows down and only the outline of the letters remains, and the gods and animals that appear in Japanese mythology such as "Kojiki" and modern times. He creates oil paintings inspired by motifs drawn in novels.
In the relationship between "characters" and "pictures" that are born side by side, I am conscious of creating meaning while crossing both works.
instagram: @kawamura_drawing

Rei Kizumoto
One color plane overlaps another color plane. Space is created there, and colors influence each other. This phenomenon that occurs at the moment when the faces overlap always makes my heart flutter.
The colors and shapes of the placed surfaces sway between my consciousness and unconsciousness, and harmonize on the support.
We can perceive hardness and softness through sight. It begins with recognizing colors, shapes and textures. I want to try to express from small sensations that I forget in my daily life.
instagram: @rei2painting

Koga Miura
With the main themes of "consciousness and unconsciousness," "intention and randomness," and "production and non-production," he creates two-dimensional works using random numbers and instructions.
In the production process, such as composition and color scheme, the process that requires the artist's decision-making is determined by random numbers and output through his own body.
In the process of repeating simple tasks according to instructions, he creates accidental facial expressions that he cannot control.
https://dmoarts.com/artists/kogamiura/
instagram: @koga_miura2343

[Overview]
"3331 ART FAIR 2022"
Date: October 28th (Friday) - 30th (Sunday)
10/28 (Fri) 15:00-20:00 *Invited guests only
10/29 (Sat) 12:00-20:00
10/30 (Sun) 12:00-18:30

*Entrance reception opens 30 minutes before opening / Last entry during the exhibition is until 30 minutes before closing

Location: 3331 Arts Chiyoda
6-11-14 Sotokanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0021

●Gallery booth Mana Kawamura
Rei Kizumoto
Koga Miura

●Selection-GYM
Kurumi Kotani @kurumi_kotani
Yui Samejima @yuisamejima
NAZE　　　 @naze.989
Seishu Niihira @seishuniihira
Saki Matsumura @sakimatsumura_

HP from here▼
https://artfair.3331.jp/

Art Fair Asia Fukuoka 2022, the only art fair in Kyushu, Chugoku, Shikoku and Okinawa regions, will be held at Fukuoka International Congress Center and Hotel Okura Fukuoka from September 30 (Fri) to October 3 (Mon) (*Oct 2 for Hotel Okura Fukuoka only).
DMOARTS will be exhibiting at the Fukuoka International Congress Center, and five artists, Chari, hin, Tomoharu Osawa, Mie Takahashi, and Rooo Lou, will show their works.

[Artist]
Chari
Tokyo-based artist and illustrator.
He depicts a warm world based on a diverse range of characters, including animals, monsters, and people. In recent years, he has published a series called "Chans," which depicts the world inhabited by the main character "Chan" and his friends.
He has presented his works by participating in group exhibitions and holding solo exhibitions in Japan and abroad.
https://chari.myportfolio.com/
instagram：@chari_o_o_o_o

hin
Artist, born 1990 in Chiba, Japan, graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Graphic Design in 2014.
The concept of the production is to explore and create a therapy by Digital Detox.
The pixel representation is intended to "materialize information," and the idea of "painting the representation as if it were a spray or brush" gave rise to a technique called "virtualspray.
Attempt to detoxify the information overload from outside and inside.
He has had a solo exhibition "Virtual Spray" in Korea (LKIFgallery ,2022), a solo exhibition "Deep paper" in Tokyo (PAGIC gallery ,2021), participated in an art fair at "art stage osaka" (DMOARTS ,2022), and held a live painting event at " Livepainting" (OIL by Bijutsu Techo ,2020). Participated in group exhibitions in Tokyo, Kyoto, Shanghai, etc.
https://digmeout.net/artists/hin/
https://hin-artwork.studio.site/
instagram：@hin_ss

Hal Osawa
Born in 1997 in Tokyo, Japan. In his previous works, he has created works by running a once-drawn work through a copying machine and then drawing a printed version of the work. The copy machine is a symbol of mass production. He has been creating his own bugs on this machine. From this point on, the artist "drew" and "printed" at the same time by dropping ink directly onto the glass part of the copier that performs the exposure process.
This made it possible to visualize the act of dragging itself, uniting the body and machine where they had been separated.
The silver foil base makes light the support, and the use of CMYK suggests a photocopier printing process.
Solo exhibitions include "ERROR" (MEDEL GALLERY SHU, 2022), major group exhibitions include "KUA ANNUAL 2022 'in Cm¦ Ghost, Labyrinth, Multiverse'" (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2022), "Hajimari" (ARTDYNE, 2022), "SHIBUYA STYLE vol. 15" (Seibu Shibuya, 2021), "In between" (SkiiMa Gallery, 2021) (@Kutsuna Miwa)
https://dmoarts.com/artists/halosawa/
instagram：@oswhr

Mie Takahashi
Born in 1994 in Hokkaido. He creates three-dimensional works inspired by the lines and shapes of doodles he casually scribbles on a daily basis. Major exhibitions include "Floating Forms" (ANAGRA/Tokyo) in 2019, "Unknown Forms" (KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku/Kyoto) in 2020, and "REPEAT" (B GALLERY/Tokyo) in 2022.
https://dmoarts.com/artists/mietakahashi/
instagram：@mie___takahashi

Rooo Lou
Born in 1988 in Osaka. After working as a designer, he shifted his method of expression to illustration. Since then, he has provided artwork for apparel brands and advertisements. In recent years, he has been mainly creating artworks and actively showing them in Japan and abroad. Recent exhibitions include "base on balls" (SkiiMa gallery / Osaka) in 2021 and "Peal Light" (GALERIE OVO / Taipei) in 2022.
https://digmeout.net/artists/rooo-lou/
instagram：@rooo_lou

[Overview]
・Date & Time
2022/9/30(Fri)―10/3(Mon)
(※Hotel Okura Fukuoka only ends on October 2.)

・Preview *VIP and invited guests only
9/30(Fri) 12:00-16:00
10/1(Sat) 11:00-12:00
10/2(Sun) 11:00-12:00

・read permission
9/30(Fri) 16:00-19:00
10/1(Sat) 12:00-19:00
10/2(Sun) 12:00-19:00
10/3(Mon) 11:00-17:00

・Venue
Fukuoka International Congress Center (2-1 Ishijo-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka)
Hotel Okura Fukuoka (3-2 Shimokawabatamachi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka)
*DMOARTS will be exhibited only at Fukuoka International Congress Center.

・Official Web Site
https://artfair.asia/

Art Fair Asia Fukuoka has been held since 2015 and is the only art fair in the Kyushu, Chugoku, Shikoku and Okinawa regions.
Since Fukuoka has geographically and historically served as a window to Asia, we have adopted the theme "To be a bridge between Japan and the Asian art market" and aim to create a global art fair that introduces artists who will carry the future of Asia on their shoulders, introduces the attractiveness of domestic culture and art to Asia, and revitalizes the Asian art market.

We are pleased to present "WORKS," a solo exhibition by Kanagawa Prefecture-based artist Mie Takahashi.
Takahashi is an artist who creates sculptures mainly using terra cotta as a material. Molded from drawings he writes down on a daily basis, his works are well received for their vivid colors and matte texture. This solo exhibition, "WORKS," will focus on displaying works that are spontaneously created in the course of his life's work, and will introduce a wide range of Takahashi's works in his first solo exhibition in Fukuoka. We hope you will take this opportunity to view the exhibition.
*DMOARTS will exhibit at Art Fair Asia Fukuoka, which will be held simultaneously at Fukuoka International Congress Center from 9/30 (Fri.) to 10/3 (Mon.) during the exhibition period.

Dates | 2022.09.29 Thu. - 10.10 Mon.
Venue | TAGSTA (Space Cube 1F, 1-7-11 Haruyoshi, Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City)
Open | 7:00 - 20:00 (Open throughout the exhibition / Free admission)
Organizer | DMOARTS

MIE TAKAHASHI / Artist
Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1994 and currently based in Kanagawa, Japan, he graduated from Yokohama College of Art in 2017 in the field of Crafts.
He creates three-dimensional works based on the lines and shapes of doodles he continues to draw casually on a daily basis.
Major exhibitions include "Floating Forms" (ANAGRA/Tokyo) in 2019, "Unknown Forms" (KYOTO ART HOSTEL kumagusuku/Kyoto) in 2021, and "REPEAT" (B GALLERY/Tokyo) in 2022.
Instagram @mie___takahashi

ART OSAKA 2022, an art fair of contemporary art, will be held at Osaka Central Public Hall from July 8 (Fri.) to 10 (Sun.) [Preview: Friday, July 8, 12:00-16:00]. The exhibition will be held at the Osaka City Central Public Hall on the following dates.

[Artist]
Ryoki Kurasaki
The artist attempts to pursue the reality of the motif by burning the part of the oil portrait that used to be the eyes. The phenomena and materials generated by the flames as a metaphor for life, the exposed space, and the structure of the canvas itself are important components of the work.
https://dmoarts.com/artists/ryoki-kurasaki/
instagram：@ryokikura

Kenji Hirasawa
Kenji Hirasawa (born 1982, Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer who graduated from the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University in 2006. He completed his MFA in Photography at the Royal College of Art. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Europe and Japan, as well as at SHOWstudio, and in 2011 published a book of photographs entitled "CELEBRITY" (Bemojake) and held a solo exhibition of the same title at the gallery KK Outlet in London. In 2016, his "HORSE" series was featured in the ISSEY MIYAKE MEN Fall/Winter 2016 collection. He is currently based in Tokyo and London.
http://www.kenjihirasawa.com/
instagram：@kenjihirasawa.ig

Saki Matsumura
Born in Nagano, Japan in 1993, he completed his graduate studies in painting at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2017. Currently based in Kyoto.
He creates dynamic paintings by combining hard-edged colored surfaces created by spraying and silk-screening with uneven surfaces covered with heavy layers of paint. The clash of different elements creates a strange harmony that opens up the imagination to new sensations.
https://dmoarts.com/artists/saki-matsumura/
instagram：@sakimatsumura_

Koga Miura
He produces two-dimensional works using random numbers and written instructions, with the main themes of "consciousness and unconsciousness," "artifice and randomness," and "production and non-production. He uses random numbers to determine the process of composition and color scheme, which require the artist's decision-making, and outputs them through his own body. In the same way that an accidental expression that cannot be controlled by the artist is created through the repetition of a simple task according to instructions, he creates works in order to reaffirm and affirm the out-of-bounds nature of our daily lives.
https://dmoarts.com/artists/kogamiura/
instagram：@koga_miura2343

[Overview]
・Date & Time
2022/7/8(Fri)―10(Sun)
・Preview
7/8(Fri) 13:00―20:00 *Only for VIPs, invited guests and members of the press
・read permission
7/9(Sat) 11:00―20:00
7/10(Sun) 11:00―17:00

・Venue
Osaka City Central Hall 3rd Floor [Central Assembly Room / Small Assembly Room / Special Room]
〒530-0005 1-1-27, Nakanoshima 1-chome, Kita-ku, Osaka City

・Official Web Site
https://www.artosaka.jp/2022/jp/

ART OSAKA 2022, the 20th edition of the contemporary art fair, will be held from July 6 (Wed.) to 11 (Mon.), 2010. ART OSAKA has the longest history of any ongoing art fair in Japan, and has been a popular venue for young and mid-career artists.
This year, continuing on from last year, the festival will be held at two venues: the Osaka City Central Public Hall (designated a National Important Cultural Property), located in one of Osaka's representative cultural areas, and a new venue, the former site of the Namura Shipyard - Creative Center Osaka (Heritage of Industrial Modernization) in the Kitakagaya area where artists' studios and other facilities are located.
We hope you will enjoy "ART OSAKA 2022," which connects Nakanoshima, a cultural area attracting attention with the opening of Osaka Nakanoshima Art Museum, and free and receptive Kitakagaya through art, and enjoy the entire city of Osaka.

We are pleased to announce "come and go," the first solo exhibition in Osaka by Kansai-based artist Koga Miura.
Miura was born in 1997 in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, and graduated from Kyoto University of Art in 2021 with a Master's degree in oil painting. He creates two-dimensional works based on the themes of "consciousness and unconsciousness," "artifice and randomness," and "production and non-production.

The color scheme and composition are determined by random numbers and cannot be controlled by the artist, while the production process is done in analog by the artist.

This is the first solo exhibition in Osaka in Miura's career, having participated in numerous group shows and art fairs in Japan and abroad. In addition to new works from the series of artworks he has presented in the past, Miura will take this opportunity to showcase a new series of works to be presented in conjunction with this exhibition.

The exhibition is also one of the venues for "ART WALK Dojima/Nakanoshima," a satellite event of the art fair "art stage OSAKA 2022" scheduled to be held during the exhibition period. We hope you will take advantage of this opportunity to view art in Osaka in early summer.

[Artist Statement]
He produces two-dimensional works using random numbers and written instructions, with the main themes of "consciousness and unconsciousness," "artifice and randomness," and "production and non-production. He uses random numbers to determine the process of composition and color scheme, which require the artist's decision-making, and outputs them through his own body. In the same way that an accidental expression that cannot be controlled by the artist is created through the repetition of a simple task according to instructions, he creates works in order to reaffirm and affirm the out-of-bounds nature of our daily lives.

[Selected Exhibitions]
・AIFA gallery opening exhibition / AIFA gallery
（Switzerland、2022）
・Light Vision / humarishclub（Macau、2022）
・ART OSAKA / Central Public Hall（Osaka、2021） / Exhibit from DMOARTS
・DAWN-EXPOSITION 2021.04- / Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore GINZA ATRIUM（Tokyo、2021）
・Shell Art Award 2020 / The National Art Center, Tokyo（Tokyo、2020）
Many others

[Overview]
Koga Miura solo exhibition「come and go」

・session
5/27(Fri)-6/5(Sun) 13:00-19:00
*Open Thu-Sun during the exhibition, close at 17:00 on the last day.
Preview : 5/26(Thu) 17:00-20:00 *Admission by invitation only.

・Venue
B1F THE BOLY OSAKA, 2-1-16 Kitahama, Chuo-ku, Osaka

・Organizing, Planning
DMOARTS

Koga Miura instagram：https://www.instagram.com/koga_miura2343

art stage OSAKA, an international art fair in Osaka, will be held at Dojima River Forum from June 3 (Fri.) to 5 (Sun.) [Preview: June 2 (Thu.)]. 6 artists from DMOARTS will be presenting their works. The works of these artists will be introduced here.

[Artist]
Kurashiki aya
Born 1993 in Hyogo Prefecture. Currently based in Tokyo. 2018 Completed Kyoto University of Art and Design. 2020 Completed graduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts. He is a recipient of the 26th scholarship from the Sato International Cultural Scholarship Foundation. He was a scholarship recipient of the Kuma Foundation's 3rd scholarship.
Kurashiki deals with multiple media such as performance and installation, centering on two-dimensional works using transfer techniques, and his activities are centered on the connection with others. For example, individuals are distinguished by categories such as gender and nationality, as well as by the values formed by their personal backgrounds and environments. In addition, the physical body is never fused with others. In his works, Kurashiki attempts to communicate closely with others, to seek coexistence, or to fuse with others.
・instagram：@ayakurashiki

Nanami
Born in Osaka in 1996. He is a second year student of Leading Artists at Tokyo University of the Arts.
Based on his own philosophy influenced by Western philosophy, Buddhism and animism, NANAMI creates ceramic works mainly through fieldwork on Yakushima Island. NANAMI overlaps the "interplay of life and death" of the Jomon cedars he encountered during his fieldwork in Yakushima with the fusion of materials and the coagulation of materials in the firing process.
・instagram：@nanamikiti

Noda Jusmin
Born in 1996 in Thailand. She produces ceramic works and installations using them.
In order to clarify the multifaceted form of contemporary kôgei (crafts), the relationship between "kôgei" and "art" is discussed through his ceramic works. In the "ghost" series, he uses "cracking" as a decorative technique derived from modeling, extracting only the use from the vessels to create an ambivalent expression between the two sides of the same coin: "the representation of use and modeling.
・instagram：@jusmin_noda

Hasegawa Yuki
Painter. Lives and works in Osaka. Completed the master's program in oil painting at Kyoto City University of Arts.
Based in Kyoto at the collaborative studio "punto. While growing various plants, he became interested in the fact that plants are living creatures with a life-support system and the flow of time that are completely different from those of humans. He depicts plants as others in his paintings, referring to the history and culture of human involvement with plants.
・instagram：@hasegawayuki_works

hin
Artist.
Born in Chiba, Japan in 1990, he graduated from Tama Art University's Department of Graphic Design in 2014.
Under the production concept of "Digital Detox," he attempts to detoxify information overload by using pixel representation as the "materialization of information.
・instagram：@hin_ss

Yakushigawa Chiharu
Chiharu Yakushikawa develops her own unique paintings in various ways based on the theme of "pair" relationships.
In the "Right Hand and Left Hand" series, in which he applies paint directly to his right and left hands and paints by hand, he expresses the blending of the individual with the other by painting with pigments he has mixed himself.
・instagram：@yakushigawa.chiharu


[Overview]

・Date & Time
2022/6/3(Fri)　11:00 ～ 19:00
2022/6/4(Sat)　11:00 ～ 19:00
2022/6/5(Sun)　11:00 ～ 16:00
※Thursday, June 2 will be a special preview for press and related parties only.

・Venue
Dojima River Forum
1-1-17 Fukushima, Fukushima-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

・Official Web Site
https://artstageosaka.com/

art stage OSAKA 2022" will be the first international art fair to be held in Osaka, following "ART FAIR TOKYO" in Tokyo. Selected galleries from Japan and abroad will exhibit and sell contemporary art works condensed from the domestic and international art scene in Dojima and Nakanoshima, where postwar art flourished.
As an international and diverse art market platform, "art stage OSAKA 2022" will offer a variety of exhibitions and programs as a venue for information exchange and socializing not only among art fans and art professionals, but also among ambassadors of various countries, government officials, and key figures in the business community.
We propose a new lifestyle from "appreciating art" to "owning art" and a "new way of dealing with art" to enrich people's minds and lives through art as cultural and social capital.
The "art stage OSAKA 2022" will serve as a catalyst for the revitalization of the art market in the Osaka area in preparation for the upcoming international exposition, and will contribute to the promotion of culture and the arts, including the development of artists and art and cultural human resources, as well as the social and economic revitalization.