EXHIBITION

DMOARTS is pleased to announce Maiko Kanno's solo exhibition "Don't put them together".
Maiko Kanno lives in Sendai and this is her first solo exhibition in Kansai.
She is an artist who holds solo exhibitions in Tokyo and Sendai every year, attracting attention from collectors in Japan and abroad.
Using acrylic paints, she depicts young girls with meaningful expressions.
She continues to paint images of young girls with complex emotions hidden behind their cuteness.
In this exhibition, we will exhibit and sell all of his new works on the theme of a selfish and purely assertive girl.
We hope you will take this opportunity to view them.

【Profile】
Born in 1983. Lives and works in Sendai City.
Graduated from Tohoku Seikatsu Bunka University.
Participated in art fairs in London such as International Art Fair and Affordable Art Fair.
He has participated in group exhibitions in Los Angeles and New Zealand, and held solo exhibitions at Gallery Speak For (Daikanyama) and in his hometown of Sendai.
 He has illustrated CD jackets for Brian the Sun and designed the icsca card for Sendai City's IC ticket system.

We are now exhibiting Yoriko Youda's show Unite the Lights in DMO ARTS, Osaka.
Yoriko, based on traditional lucky sign, pattern, and concepts, express the gaps and discomfort born in the environment that has culture mixed in modern times by drawing Shishikoma, which are the guardian animals used to be lions, now turned to be dogs, in contemporary ways.

在大阪DMO ARTS目前展出曄田依子Yoriko Youda個展「かげを結う」。
基於傳統吉祥符號、圖案與概念，通過繪製獅子狛曄田表達出生在具有混在文化的現代環境中的差距和不協調感。
由於獅子狛的匠心從江?後期開始沒很大地變貌，曄田開始參考現存狗類的表情創作獅子狛讓獅子狛的史有新鮮感。

[DATES] 2015,Nov,28th(Wed)-Nov,11th (Tue)
opening reception : Nov 31, 18:00 free adimittion

Yuka Yonemasu is an illustrator who energetically active in publishing original piece of work and also creating cover design for various popular writers.
She uses acryl gouache, pens and collage art work for the first step, then she scans the art work to create final piece of work by MAC PC.
The main theme of her work is, “Is it a dream or reality or a vision?” Thus, she expresses a dreamy atmosphere mingled with dream and reality under the theme.
Yuka Yonemasu says, ‘I like a dreamy atmosphere that I could feel a sense of reality not only the fantasy of optimistic dreams.
The thing which slightly lonely, ephemeral but lively and individually strong.
I would use “circus” as an example for my art work. Because, circus is a thing that happens in a short time but creates magical and fantasy like a dream.
It seems like whole thing was a dream but it actually happened in reality and I want to express the imagination in my art work.’

Stephen Kenny who is known for his letterpress works is going to exhibit his solo show in Japan (Tokyo, Osaka, and Fukuoka).
“A TWO PIPE PROBLEM” is a letterpress studio based in Walthamstow, East London, run by Stephen Kenny.
A working graphic designer, Stephen leads his trained eyes to create a new approach to the antique art of letterpress.
At this time of the exhibition, he is going to release his new works captured ordinal scenes such as, ‘music’, ‘food’, ‘sound’, ‘happiness’ and ‘love’.
These works may seem like abstract works at first glance, but you will figure out the idea that is intended to associate ‘sound’, ‘design’ and ‘word’.
For instance, a main work of the exhibition, “RAIN IS POPCORN” captured an ordinal raining day, but when you get the deeper meaning behind the work, you will clearly imagine that little moment is the very special day.
The background colour leads to associate an ‘umbrella’ and the sound of rain sheds the umbrella associates a sound of ‘popcorn’.
The meaning of ‘food’ (popcorn) equals to ‘happiness’ and ‘peace’ and the imagination comes from ‘sound’ (rain drop). The theme colour of the exhibition is ‘BLACK & WHITE’.
The monotone colour aims audience to call the scene to mind and colours the work to create own story.
Furthermore, a work of ‘BLACK ON BLACK’ pushes to envelope on radical function of messenger and sign.
It beyonds the stereotype of letterpress and it is also a step to art not only a messenger.
He is a typography and print devotee and worked as graphic designer for 10 years.
In 2007, he launched his letterpress studio, ‘A TWO PIPE PROBLEM LETTER PRESS’ and involved in corporate branding, book and record cover design for numerous artists.
Meanwhile, he releases his original work of posters and greeting cards and he drew attention when he first exhibit at ‘PAUL SMITH SPACE GALLERY’ in Tokyo.
With that as a start, he frequently exhibits solo shows in Japan.

Exhibition in which MIC*ITAYA remixes GONTITI artwork himself.

On 9/9(Wed.), a live CD&DVD recording last year's double KANREKI festival will be released, and on 9/24 (Thu.), the earth comfort music guitar duo "GONTITI" will lead a special band for an "Autumn Band Tour" at Namba Hatch.
Mick Itaya, the package designer for the band, will hold an exhibition of GONTITI art remixes to celebrate the release of the live CD&DVD.
At the exhibition, all GONTITI artwork created by Mick Itaya since his debut will be on display.
GONTITI album art, which incorporates all of Mick Itaya's charms, including drawings, paintings, paper cutouts, and collages, has been remixed by Mick Itaya himself with his current sensibilities. The reconstructed original works will be exhibited and sold.
Also on display will be artwork from the live CD&DVD recording of this double KANREKI festival.
In addition to the original artwork, special goods and signed prints will be produced for this exhibition.
Longtime GONTITI fans and new fans alike will enjoy this exhibition.
Talk events with GONTITI and Mick Itaya, mini live performances, and autograph sessions will also be held during the exhibition period.
Collaboration with Umeda Tsutaya Bookstore on the 9th floor of LUCUA 1100 will also be held to bring the collaboration of earth comfort music and art to life.

Mick Itaya's major GONITITI artwork to date

GONTITI & Mick Itaya Talk Event + Mini Live
September 19 (Sat) LUCUA 1100 9F Umeda Tsutaya 4th Lounge
Doors open at 15:30 / Start at 16:00
Those who purchase GONTITI CD&DVD and Mick Itaya related products totaling 3,000 yen or more at DMOARTS and Tsutaya by the day of the event will receive an invitation ticket for one person.
After the talk event + mini live, there will be a reception and autograph session at DMOARTS on B1F. (18:00~)
In celebration of the exhibition at DMOARTS, GONTITI & Mick Itaya space will also appear at Umeda Tsutaya on the 9th floor. Related products will be on sale.

GONTITI Double Kanken Festival 2014 [CD+DVD].
That excitement is back again!
GONTITI celebrated their 60th birthday together in the fall of 2014.
From the commemorative concert "GONTITI Double KANREKI FESTIVAL," this 2-disc set includes a live CD of the Osaka concert and a DVD of the Tokyo concert.
Special package with art direction by Mick Itaya!
Sure to be enjoyed by core fans and newcomers alike! 
Regular price: ¥3,780 (tax included)

GONTITI Autumn Band Tour"!
9/24(Thu) Namba Hatch Doors open 18:00 / Concert begins 19:00
The band sound will be performed by Takefumi Haketa (pf), Shigeki Ichimoto (ba), and Hitoshi Kusunoki (dr)!

GONTITI
Instrumental acoustic guitar duo consisting of Gonzalez Mikami and Chichi Matsumura.
Formed in 1978 and debuted in 1983.
The simple and gentle melodies they create do not choose who they listen to, where they listen to them, or when they listen to them.
The Gonchichi sound, which naturally matches various situations, can be heard in our daily surroundings such as TV, radio, commercials, and movie music.
Their music is "Very Special Ordinary Music" (literal translation: "very special, everyday music"), which has gradually become a natural part of people's hearts and minds, and is loved by a wide range of people regardless of age or gender.
They have produced more than 40 albums to date, and more than a dozen have been released in the U.S., Asia, and other countries.
http://www.gontiti.jp/

MIC*ITAYA
Visual Artist
Graduated from Tama Art University.
Expressing the world of nature and mythology with fluid lines and bright colors, he is active in various fields including magazines, advertising, music, fashion, stage design, space design, product design, and publishing, and has held numerous solo exhibitions.
His CD design for GONTITI, the logo mark for the founding of UNIQLO UNIQLO, wall paintings and objects for Tokyo Skytree "Solamachi," the mirror work "MIRRORS," and the Japanese light fixture "Suzumo Choto" won the Good Design Award.
Stories and designs for BEAMS LIGHTS with MIC*ITAYA, a brand of BEAMS, are among his works. 
TRA," a cassette magazine he designed and published in the '80s, is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, MOMA New York.
www.micitaya.com

riya is known for her paper cutout art works will have her solo show, ‘Whale Song’ after 2 years at gallery DMO ARTS.
riya was born in Chicago, U.S.A, 1985 and she now lives in Tokyo.
She uses method of paper cutout, arranging icons of animals, humans, waves, clouds, fire and starts to create works that are somewhat magical and ethnic features with hint of ecological views.
At this time of the exhibition, riya will going to present her new works using a whale as main art motif.
The duration will be 26 of Sep (Sat)-13 of Oct (Tue) and the opening reception party will be held on 26 th of Sep(Sat) 6pm-9pm.
Please be aware that the last day of the exhibition closes at 6pm.
Deep in the past, like the beginning of something new One part of the star falls into the sea Take a pause and began Staying alive for numbers of years.
The figure takes one the shape of another being Join a ring together And I, the one who returned to the sea And I, the one who stayed on the land.
You and I share the same parts.

Fictional memories of a slightly strange family
Images like pictures on the walls of such people, decaying objects, and stains of memories.
(No one knows, it never existed.) Like a relic. /Ryosuke Matsuzono

Matsuzono will hold his second solo exhibition in a year.
The world depicted in color ink is a little cold, distant, and fascinating, a landscape of someplace other than here and memories of someone else.
Please enjoy the sensation of wandering through imaginary memories.

Public Drawing Event 8.29(Sat) from 14:00
Drawings will be done on postcard size drawing paper upon request.
3,500 yen per sheet (tax not included)

Ryosuke Matsuzono
Born in 1984 Lives and works in Tokyo　
2007 Heartland Beer Drawing Biennial Award / Tokyo Wonder Seed
2009 2010 2012 Selected / The 191st The Choice
2014 Solo exhibition "Kepakemapa" DMOARTS
http://matsuzonoryosuke.net/

DMOARTS is pleased to announce Kana Otsuki's solo exhibition "Empty Shell".
Kana Otsuki is a Kyoto-based artist who has exhibited throughout Japan.
Consistently working on the theme of "chrysalis," she has been vigorously expanding her range of expression to include her signature series of portrait images of young girls, abstract art expression, and illustration.
This is his third consecutive year and third solo exhibition at DMOARTS.
In addition to approximately 50 original artworks, this exhibition will feature and sell new My First Art works produced by giclee printing, a high quality fine art printing method, as well as postcard sets and other goods.

I have been working as an artist since 2007, and this year marks my 8th year.
All of my works can be explained by the concept of "chrysalis," which is the most important theme in my work.
I think of the butterfly chrysalis as the cohabitation of the "death of the larva" and the "life of the adult".
Since the larva dissolves itself in the chrysalis, it is impossible to tell from the outside where the death of the larva begins and at what stage it becomes an adult (new life).
Life and death are elusive, yet they "exist" as a single living organism.
In this light, I feel that many people living today are very "chrysalis-like.
It was after the earthquake that the theme of chrysalis appeared strongly in my works.
After the earthquake, I consciously incorporated the chrysalis motif into my work as an image of hope for Japan's rebirth.
We are now living in the chrysalis period.
We are now living in the chrysalis period, a period of preparation for our eventual emergence as butterflies.
However, the vague emptiness I feel in Japan today is like being inside an empty chrysalis.
I have somehow realized that the chrysalis, which I thought was a symbol of hope, is empty.
Four years after the disaster, I have come to realize that Japan has been searching for a solid "identity" (the contents of the chrysalis) ever since the end of World War II.
This is similar to the image of an "adolescent girl" who is often compared to a chrysalis.
I myself spent my girlhood in the past, and the sense of struggling to survive in the midst of emptiness seemed to me to be similar to the sense of living in modern Japan.
Modern Japan is both chrysalis-like and girlish.
It wants to believe that it has all kinds of potential, but it is still a nobody.
Yet even within this empty chrysalis (Japan), we certainly exist.
This emptiness is no one's fault, and each of us must constantly be asked and continue to answer the question, "How do we live" in this world?
That is the reality of life.
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For me, creating a work in this chrysalis shell is like creating a "mirror" reflecting the present age and ourselves.
Somewhere in there, we are capturing the contemporary Japanese image.
If you find something solid in it, I will be happy as an artist.
It may be the content of a chrysalis that may eventually become a butterfly.

KanaOhtsuki

KanaOhtsuki　Profile
Born in 1984, Kyoto-based artist.
She expresses the contemporary through girl motifs, mainly in acrylic paintings.
She started her career in 2007.
She has participated in various exhibitions both in Japan and abroad, and holds a solo exhibition about once a year in Japan.
She is also expanding her activities as an illustrator and was featured in "ILLUSTRATION 2014" in 2014.

DMOARTS is pleased to announce Ryohei Yamashita's solo exhibition "EARLY BIRD", his second exhibition at DMOARTS in three years.
Ryohei Yamashita consistently presents visual works based on the theme of "movement.
While his paintings focus on boldly capturing the movements of runners, swimmers, and dancers, he has also continued to present a variety of other works, including his Horizon series depicting the moment of sunrise and drawings that instantly depict models.
It is still fresh in his memory that he was in charge of the artwork for the "OSAKA POWER LOOP" train, which has been in operation since last June, realized through a collaboration between FM802's art project "digmeout" and the JR West Japan Group.

>For this exhibition, he has created a number of energetic paintings drawn from a perspective like a bird flying in the air in all directions and with free strokes.
The exhibition will feature new works that capture the essence of movement by capturing the dynamic material while changing viewpoints.
In addition to original works in sizes ranging from SM to B1 and drawings of people, the artist's latest original illustrations will also be on display.
In addition, iPhone covers, 2015 calendars, popular samurai tights, and other goods will be on sale.

Reception Party: 7/25 (Sat) 18:00-
Live Painting: 7/25 (Sat) 13:00-18:00

【Statement】
This exhibition emphasizes "seeing the real thing" and "sketching" more than ever before.
By visiting locations whenever possible and repeating a large number of sketches with models in front of me, I was able to fully use all five senses in my expression.
In particular, the moving croquis is a drawing of a person in constant motion, and each simple line seems to have a life of its own.
The combination of roughness and precision infuses energy into the painting and leads to the dynamic expression that is the true essence of Yamashita's work.

For this exhibition, I have been going out for an hour-long workout almost every day for the past two months and looking at the same scenery.
I wanted to put what I see and feel by putting myself in the panoramic landscape, which changes its expression every day, onto the canvas.
This is an experimental experiment to maintain my health as an artist, and I look forward to seeing how this will manifest itself in my work.

Ryohei Yamashita
He produces paintings and illustrations with the consistent theme of "dynamism".
Passed the digmeout audition in 2008.
He has also been active in art direction, creating cover illustrations for Magazine House's "Tarzan," visuals for Nike, live paintings for the music festival Summer Sonic, and the official visual for the Yokohama Marathon 2015.
http://www.artmaster.jp

DMO ARTS Kita-ku, Osaka Umeda 3-1-3 LUCUA 1100 B1F
TEL 06-6450-8187

PM Ken, who is known for his photography will have solo exhibition, crosspoint 2015 at gallery DMO ARTS.
P.M Ken found one’s leg to be a photographer with his first exhibition in 1996 and started to produce a photograph of world cityscape composite by Photoshop and Macintosh.
The unique technique and ideas widen his rage of activity in creative fields and it lead to publish his first photobook, “cross point”.
He holds solo exhibition of his outstanding monochromatic photography of composite picture on a regular basis since 2010.
This exhibition will be his third time and he is going to release his latest work related to Osaka such as Tower of Sun, Namba Street and Osaka City Central Public Hall.
He will be displaying his latest work of 20 and also his original goods.
We look forward your visit.