EXHIBITION

Maiko Kanno exhibition “Her House Has No Roof”

2017.9.22 fri. - 10.5 thu.
OPEN 10:00-21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party with the artist on Friday, September 23 from 18:00 - 21:00 (no reservation is needed)

DMO ARTS is pleased to present the Maiko Kanno’s solo exhibition “Her House Has No Roof”.  This solo exhibition is her 2nd time in 2 years in Osaka.
Sendai based artist Maiko Kanno draws girls capturing variety of emotional moments by acrylic pencil painting methods.  Her colorful and detailed touch attracts wide range of audiences.  A part of her drawing is for CD jackets of the rock band Brian the Sun, she has wide variety of work as an artist.
This time there are about 30 paintings including new works.  Goods are also sold at our gallery store during the exhibition period only.  Please don't miss this event!

Maiko Kanno
Born in 1983, based in Sendai, Miyagi prefecture.
Graduated from Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University.
Kanno joined several art fairs such as International Art Fair and Affordable Art Fair in London and Taiwan.She has had group exhibitions (in LA and New Zealand) and solo exhibitions (in Tokyo, Sendai and Osaka) so far.She has designed for the CD jackets of Brian the Sun and for IC card ICSCA by transportation bureau of city of Sendai.
maikokanno.jp

PLAY SMALL
KIWI SEMI × KAYA MORISHITA
Exhibition & Limited shop

2017.9.8 Fri.-9.21 Thu.
OPEN 10:00-21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)

DMOARTS is pleased to announce that we will have the exhibition and the limited shop event of works created by the KIWI Seminar students at the department of spatial design of Kyoto University of Art and Design.  This is the yearly event in summer and we are proud of doing it again this year.

For this project, students have to handle and organize every single flow from creation planning of each item to exhibit, production, packaging and displaying to its sales. PLAY SMALL is the theme of this year.  We are very happy to show variety of small pieces of fashion, jewelry, art work, zakka and graphic that young students thought of creative ideas and produced during this event at DMOARTS.

Furthermore, Kaya Morishita who is out of this seminar and now is the artist of DMOARTS collaborates with her juniors by her SMALL works.  Please expect and don’t miss this unique event “a fusion of art and design” conducted by young students.

Renew your eyes

/ Fashion
/ Jewelry
/ Art work
/ Zakka
/ Graphic

KIWI SEMI （The department of spatial design of Kyoto University of Art and Design)
森下 茅 KAYA MORISHITA

Venue : DMOARTS
Dates : Friday September 8 to Thursday September 21
Time : 10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)

2017.8.18 fri. – 9.07 thu.
DMO ARTS is pleased to present the KOJI TOYODA’s solo exhibition “just take it easy”.
“Be yourself and just take it easy”
It’s easier said than done.
When you are in the wrong mood, look up the sky and breathe deep, think something good, listen to good music …. that’s surfing for me.
I introduce this kind of feeling through my artworks.
Enjoy your life!
Koji Toyoda

Koji Toyoda
Since his first art exhibition at the international surfing museum in Huntington Beach, California in 1997, he keeps creating “surf art” inspires from messages and the state of minds he gets from surfing. Many collaboration with brands and companies have been developed so far. He is also an art director of “Surf art? Japan” publishing by Bueno! Books. Owner and director of PALM GTAPHICS
www.sora-umi.com
Friday, August 18 –Thursday, September 7 at DMOARTS
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Friday, August 18 from18:00- (no reservation)

2017.8.4 fri. - 8.17 thu.
2 madness, MADBUNNY from Berlin and MISTERWIM from London come to DMOARTS this summer! The UK art team who creates decorations and props for worldwide mega music festivals such as Glastonbury Festival (UK) and Fuji Rock Festival (Japan). And, two main standing out artists from the UK art team will do joint exhibition at DMOARTS.
MADBUNNY from Berlin, the only one Japanese artist in the UK art team. He is a main artist of Tower Record and Fuji Rock of Fuji Rock Festival 2017.
http://www.madbunny.net
https://www.instagram.com/m_a_d_b_u_n_n_y
http://tower.jp/article/news/2017/05/19/n101

MISTERWIM from London, the artist for “The Palace of Wonder” and the main tower at the Fuji Rock Festival

http://www.misterwim.com
https://www.instagram.com/misterwim

All artwork to sell during this exhibition is one of the kind. Come and experience this super rare collaboration between 2 geniuses in the world of art.
 Artists at Gallery during August 4th – 6th
 Reception party on August 4th Friday 18:00 – (no reservation)

Chigusa Aihara’s solo exhibition - YUMEOCHI
2017.7.21 fri. - 8.3 thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased to present Chigusa Aihara’s solo exhibition “YUMEOCHI”. Aihara is the Tokyo based illustrator and this is her 2nd solo exhibition in 6 years in Osaka. Her works drawn by acrylics, color inks, pens and pencils are mysterious world emerges images of close yet far, existing or illusion.
In addition to new artworks for the exhibition, she introduces works that are exhibited in Harajuku, Tokyo in last November. Her original goods are also sold during the exhibition.

Chigusa Aihara
Illustrator based in Tokyo.
She started as a professional illustrator since attending to CWC “Chance” exhibition. Her illustrations has been known and often seen in magazines and advertisements.
Past exhibitions:
-“Suteki na something” at DMOARTS (Osaka), GALLERY SPEAK FOR (Daikanyama)
-“SCENENS” at L'illustre Galerie LE MONDE (Harajuku)

Friday, July 21 –Thursday, August 3 at DMOARTS
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, July 22, 18:00- (no reservation)

2017.7.7 fri. - 7.20 thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased to present “Floating Reality” the 1st solo exhibition by Chikako Toya. Toya’s inspiration comes from a moment of ordinal people’s life, animals, flowers and nature. She draws these adding pattern like motives colorfully. In this exhibition, she will introduce “arcadia” like vision of harmony with nature alternating between reality and unreality.

Chikako Toya
Illustrator based in Tokyo, born in Kyoto. Mainly working for illustrations of adverts and editorials. She has expanded her works as an artist since this year.
Winner of Yoshihiro Taniguchi Award at UNKNOWN ASIA ART EXCHANGE OSAKA 2016

Friday, July 7 – Thursday, July 20 at DMOARTS
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, July 8, 18:00- (no reservation)

DMOARTS will exhibit at ART OSAKA 2017

Friday, July 7, 2017 - Sunday, July 9, 2017
Hotel Granvia Osaka, 26th floor

DMOARTS will exhibit at ART OSAKA 2017, the 15th annual contemporary art fair.
ART OSAKA is Japan's largest art fair specializing in contemporary art, and is the longest-established and most supported art fair in Japan. 54 galleries from Japan and abroad (21 from Kansai, 27 from outside Kansai, 3 from Taiwan, 2 from Korea, and 1 from Macau) will participate.
The exhibited works range from affordable pieces by new artists to masterpieces by internationally renowned artists, with a total of over 150 artists. The genres of art on view are not limited to painting, sculpture, printmaking, and photography, but also include installations that use the entire space, offering an opportunity to view high-quality contemporary art all in one place.
ART OSAKA, a hotel-style art fair, will be held in a hotel room, close to the living space, where gallerists with their unique aesthetic sense will recommend high-quality artworks for comparison, and visitors will be able to purchase their favorite works on the spot. We hope that not only art lovers but also all those who are interested in art in their daily lives will enjoy a new way to interact with the world of art, which will expand through the purchase of artworks.

We have selected artists from DMOARTS who are exhibiting for the first time. We hope you will enjoy this exhibition at the hotel, which is different from the usual gallery setting.

[Exhibiting Artists] Murayama、Maria、Matsumura Saki、okoimatsu、Uchida Fumitake、Miyahara Nonomi、Yen Tzu-Sung

[ROOM] 6306

【Artists】
Murayama Maria
2010 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Sculpture
2012 M.F.A. in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts
After completing his master's program, he has participated in residencies in Japan, China, and the Netherlands, and is currently based in the Kanto region of Japan.
He became interested in the fact that taxidermy, the placement of animal carcasses as a part of decorations in everyday spaces, weakens resistance to corpses, and began creating ceramic works with stuffed animals as a motif. Through his works, he expresses the ambiguity between ornaments and carcasses, life and death.

Saki Matsumura
1993 Born in Nagano Prefecture
2017 MFA in Painting, Kyoto University of Art and Design
Using acrylic paint as her main painting medium, this artist incorporates silkscreening techniques and other techniques to create graphically expressive works. She creates sharp paintings by combining geometric motifs, lines, and universal shapes in her compositions. This is his first exhibition at an art fair since graduating from university. He is one of the young artists whose future activities are highly anticipated.

okoimatsu
Born in Nagano Prefecture. Moved to Tokyo as a child. After studying abroad in London, currently based in Sapporo.
The casual changes in ordinary things and big changes in unimportant things that make up the daily street corner. He creates works with motifs of small things that are constantly changing next to everyday life. He globally explores the traces of "dynamics" that shape cities. His current motif is a test pen in the pen section of a stationery store. He reproduces the lines and scribbles of the trial scribbles in the form of reproductions and composes them on the canvas. After graduating from an art college in England, he spent several years in London before returning to Japan five years ago and settling in Hokkaido.

Fumitake Uchida
Born in Kyoto in 1981, graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Major solo exhibitions include "Skin Mirror" (2010, GALLERY SPEAK FOR). In 2008, four of his works were selected for MoMA's "DESTINATION JAPAN," and he was in charge of illustrations for the New York, Paris, and London editions of LE BOOK, a world-renowned creator's yearbook. He has also created jackets for music DVDs and CDs, including "HOSHIZORA NO LIVE V Just Ballae" in 2010, and his painting projected on the entire stage of the musical "Take Flight," directed by Amon Miyamoto, has attracted much attention. He is also developing expression using sound, releasing his first album "Sleeping Forest" in April 2013. He exhibited at UNKNOWN ASIA 2016.

Nonomi Miyahara
1992 Born in Tokyo, Japan
He is a graduate of Kyoto University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts and Crafts, Integrated Arts Course, 2015
He combines various everyday objects, mainly ceramics, to create installations that evoke the past and the future. Nakajima Mugi Prize, and Shinsuke Suzuki Prize.

Yen Tzu-Sung
Photographer living in Taiwan.
My early works were shot using black and white negatives of documentaries. The imaginations evoked by the satire, social contradictions, and other black humor in these images played a large role in the images of these works.
Recently, in addition to such documentary photography, the artist has also developed a deeper commitment to abstract concepts and minimalism. In a series of works, the artist's life experiences, as well as special moments and events in his life, are illuminated and expressed.

【Overview】
ART OSAKA 2017
Friday, July 7 - Sunday, July 9, 2017

・preview
July 7, 2017(Fri)14:00 - 20:00
*Invited guests and press only

・read permission
July 8, 2017(Sat) 11:00-20:00
July 9, 2017 (Sun) 11:00-19:00
*Admission until 1 hour before the end of the fair

・venue
Hotel Granvia Osaka 26th floor
3-1-1 Umeda, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0001, Japan
Tel.06-6344-1235

digmeout artist, YUGO. releases new pieces “Girls” at his solo exhibition held in Osaka, Tokyo and the first time in Fukuoka.
In this series, he draws the world of depressed and sometimes dirty daily life of youth that he was inspired from lyrics of his favorite band, San Francisco based “GIRLS” (2007-2012).
In addition to original drawings, goods especially for produced for this solo exhibition will be sold at each venue.
Each venue will present different pieces. Come and enjoy his new inspiration!

YUGO. (digmeout artist)
Illustrator, design works and art direction to rock bands, musicians, apparel companies, music events and fashion magazines. All-around artist especially for music and fashion fields.

Venues:
Osaka / DMO ARTS
6/16-7/6

Tokyo / TOKYO CULTUART by BEAMS
7/28-8/16 *Opening party 6pm-8pm 7/28

Fukuoka / TAGSTA
9/2-9/30 *Opening party 6pm-8pm 9/2

2017.6.2 Fri.-6.15 Thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased present Koji Shiroshita & TACO Exhibition “_act_Draws”.

Drawing alone, and drawing together.
These two artists run brushes alone and together, and it emerges something new expression.

Drawings by Shiroshita and TACO alone and together emit a power that many contributors such as designers, translators and photographers identified with. Then, “act” was formed to connect performers from different fields. “act” keeps performing in many places since a series of exhibition held in Osaka, 2014. Now, “act” gives new world at DMO ARTS this time.
http://www.act-art.jp

Date and Venue:
Friday, June 2 – Thursday, June 15 at DMO ARTS
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, June 3, 18:00- (no reservation)

2017.5.19 Fri.-6.1 Thu.

DMO ARTS is pleased present the solo exhibition of Yuma Yamashiro from Friday May 19.
The Kansai based artist, Yuma Yamashiro creates composition and three dimensional works. Architectural buildings and urban plans are sources of her inspiration and she filtered these into her own creations. She sees real and unreal things from a panoramic viewpoints to portray.

Date and Location:
Friday, May 19 – Thursday, June 1
10:00 – 21:00 (closing at 18:00 at the final day)
** Reception party on Saturday, May 20, 18:00- (no reservation)


Statement:
“When I work, I look for a relation nature between a sense of panoramic ‘playful’ eye-tracking that is like when I see a map, and a sense of presence in a diagram with picturesque color configurations. The relationship I found counteract, opposing by practical visualization emerged from lives. My aim is to express this balance to something neutral trusting the state of surface.”

Biography:
Born in Ibaraki city, Osaka in 1987.
Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, faculty of Art

Solo Exhibitions at:
2016 STREET GALLERY, Kyoto
2015 KUN ST ARZT, Kyoto
2014 GLAN FABRIQUE la galerie, Osaka

Group Exhibitions at:
2016 2kw GALLERY, Osaka
2015 KOBE ART VILLAGE CENTER, Hyogo
2015 OSAKA MUNICIPAL LIFELONG LEARNING CENTER, Osaka
2014 Gallery PARC, Osaka
2014 IBARAKI CREATE CENTER, Osaka
2013 KYOTO SEIKA UNIV., Kyoto
2013 gallery ARTISLONG, Kyoto
2012 KYOTO SEIKA UNIV., Kyoto
2012 JOKAISO, Aichi
2012 GALLERY FLEUR, Kyoto