EXHIBITION

Commemorating the 2nd anniversary of the opening of JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan.
The OSAKA DREAMS," a gathering of contemporary art galleries in Osaka, was held in May 2011 to celebrate the grand opening of the JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan.
Following last year's and the year before, we will hold the third installment of this event.

Galleries with a connection to Osaka will gather at this art spot in the center of Osaka, which is booming with the rush of urban development.
JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan is also celebrating the second anniversary of its opening, and the Umeda area of Osaka will become even more exciting.
The 6th floor Art Liberation Zone and the 3rd floor DMO ARTS art spaces in the store and OSAKA ART COMPLEX (Tezukayama Gallery, Tenjensha, YOD Gallery, Yoshimi Arts), a group of galleries leading the Osaka art scene, will collaborate to present a selection of their best artists. The selection of the best artists from each of these galleries will be presented.
The artists will perform together with rich individuality across genres.
From Osaka to the world.
JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan, as the hub of Osaka's contemporary art scene, will introduce the latest "OSAKAN ART" to a variety of customers. Please look forward to it.

＜Participating Artists＞
■Hana Inoue ｜ Yoshimi Arts selection
1982 Born in Hiroshima Lives and works in Tokyo
2006 Taikiyo Sato Public Art Exhibition (Fukuchiyama City Taikiyo Sato Memorial Art Museum/Kyoto)
2008 Hiroshima City University Graduate School of Art, M.F.A., Prix la Jeunesse Prize Geibikai Exhibition (Fukuya Hacchobori/Hiroshima)
2009 Solo exhibition "Ca la fu le zu" (Yoshimi Gallery/Osaka) KOBE ART MARCHE-Yoshimi Gallery (Crowne Plaza Kobe/Kobe) Hana Inoue and Shiho Yamamoto two persons exhibition (Daimaru Tokyo Store Art Gallery/Tokyo)
2010 BODAIJU FESTA-Yoshimi Arts (Ramada Hotel Osaka/Osaka) KOBE ART MARCHE-Yoshimi Arts (Kobe Portopia Hotel/Kobe) Yoshimi Arts opening exhibition "0 +" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka)
2011 Solo exhibition "Monogatari" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) Hana Inoue and Shiho Yamamoto two person exhibition (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) Garyu-Zakura Japanese Painting Grand Prize Exhibition (Hida-Izan Cultural Exchange Center, Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art/Gifu) Insight Repetition/ Repetition II (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka)

■Kotatsu Iwata ｜ TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY selection
1974 Born in Osaka
2005 NYCoo Prize, NYCoo Gallery, New York
2006 "The Jean Gates Award", New York
2007 Solo exhibition "Bring It on Home to Me" at ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION/New York, Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2007 at Tokyo Bijutsu Club, Tokyo, "Spirit Award" at NYCoo Gallery/New York
2008 Solo exhibition "Can't Find The Way" at 680 Fifth Ave/New York
2009 Solo exhibition "GET WHAT YOU NEED" at TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY/Osaka, Korea International Art Fair 2009, COEX, Korea
2010 GALLERY'S RECOMMENDED YOUNG ARTISTS (TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY/Osaka) Korea International Art Fair 2010 (COEX/Korea)
2011 The NY Coo Cllection vol.0 (NYCoo Gallery/New York)
2012 Solo exhibition "What a cool ! (TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY/Osaka) 2012 Solo exhibition "What a cool !" (TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY/Osaka) "Utsukushikimono: Charm of Miniatures" (JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan/Osaka) Art Show Busan 2012 (BEXCO Exhibition Hall/Korea)

■Nobuyuki Ogawa ｜ YOD Gallery selection
1963 Born in Kyoto
1989 Selected for the Kyoto Exhibition and the All Kansai Art Exhibition? 1989 Selected, Kyoto Exhibition, All Kansai Art Exhibition
1993 Selected, Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition
1994 Selected, Kyoto Craft Biennale
1996 Selected, Sogetsu Flower Vessels Biennial Exhibition, Mashiko Ceramic Art Exhibition, Kyoto Art Craft Exhibition
1997 Selected, Saga Goryu Flower Pottery Exhibition
2000 Minister of International Trade and Industry Award, Kiyomizuyaki Ceramic Ware Exhibition, Kyoto, Japan
2002 Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award, Kyo-yaki and Kiyomizu-yaki Pottery Exhibition
2003 Faenza International Ceramic Art Exhibition, Faenza, Italy, Silver Plate Prize / Ravenna Prize, Solo Exhibition? Flowers in Heaven, Earth, Earth and its Space
2005 Faenza International Ceramic Art Exhibition, Faenza, Italy, Gold Plate Prize /President's Award of Rotary Club, solo exhibition "Mostra Personale di Ceramica".
2006 Museum of Ceramics, Sevres, France
2008 Solo Exhibition "Vessels of Aloofness" at the Museum of Ceramics, Sevres, France.

■Takeshi Kajimoto ｜ DMOARTS selection
1974 Born in Osaka
1997 Selected for the 2nd Sam Hall Grand Prize
1998 Solo Exhibition "Takeshi Kajimoto Exhibition" at Gallery Kuruse
2000 Solo Exhibition "Takeshi Kajimoto Exhibition" (City Gallery) Group Exhibition "Thinking VII" (City Gallery)
2001 Group Exhibition "Thinking VIII①" (City Gallery) "Thinking VIII②" (City Gallery) Group Exhibition "Vibrating Plane" (City Gallery) "LIFE" (City Gallery)
2002 "Takeshi Kajimoto Exhibition" (City Gallery)
2003 GEISAI#3 (Pacifico Yokohama/Yokohama) GEISAI MUSEUM (Roppongi Hills Mori Tower/Tokyo)
2008 GEISAI MUSEUM 2 (Tokyo Big Sight/Tokyo)
2009 OTHER PAINTING IV (Pepper's Gallery/Tokyo)
2010 Solo exhibition "Takeshi Kajimoto cutting life" (Standing Drinking Gallery Newspaper Woman/Osaka)
2011 Solo exhibition "Takeshi Kajimoto exhibition World is Kaleidoscope" (iTohen gallery/Osaka) Art Stream 2011 in DAIMARU SHINSAIBASHI FM802 Prize (Daimaru Shinsaibashi/Osaka)
2012 Group exhibition "Atarashii riddle ga kita" (Kadoma Shimin Bunka Kaikan Lumiere Hall/Osaka)

■Nina Kawamata ｜ YOD Gallery selection
1987 Born in Ibaraki, Japan
2011 Gombessa proposal ep1 "I am Japanese" (BAMI gallery/Kyoto) ELEVEN Girls Art Collection (Matsuya Ginza/Tokyo) ZOU - Japanese Painting or Not - (Kaigan-dori Gallery CASO/Osaka) Sanja Sanba (YOD Gallery/Osaka) 2012? (YOD Gallery/Osaka) 2012? Newly Born Form (JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan/Osaka) Two Artists Exhibition (Ginza Mitsukoshi/Tokyo) Kyoto Nanasei (Gallery I/Kyoto) SPURT Exhibition (Kyoto University of Art and Design Galerie/Ove) Glamorization (Waka no Ura Art Cube D1/Wakayama) Group Exhibition (Takamatsu Tenmanya/Kagawa)
2013 Completed graduate course in Art Expression, Kyoto University of Art and Design

■Miki Kitamura ｜ DMOARTS selection
1990 Born in Kyoto
2010 Selected for the 9th TIS Open Call "My One Picture" Selected by Izuru Aminaka, Exhibition of works by 6 Kyoto art universities "Itohen Exhibition" (Kirakuto Plaza - Kyoto Industrial Hall/Kyoto) Group Exhibition "pi2 Exhibition" (Kyoto)
2011 The 12th Note Exhibition, juror's prize, Ryoji Arai, The 176th The Choice, runner-up
2012 Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Design, Department of Visual Design, Illustration Course

■Takahide Komatsu ｜ TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY selection
1979 Born in Miyazaki, Japan
2006 ART SHANGHAI 2006 (Shanghai Mart/Shanghai) Solo exhibition "Japanese Ecosystem" (Gallery Celeste/Fukuoka)
2008 Solo exhibition "Coexistence" at TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY (Osaka), Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2008 (Tokyo Bijutsu Club/Tokyo)
2009 Solo exhibition "moment-" (Gallery PLOT/Tokyo) YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2009 (Taipei) Solo exhibition "-coexistence-" (Gallery Forty-Seven/London)
2010 "Rain Poem", solo exhibition at Art Fair Tokyo 2010 (Tokyo International Forum/Tokyo) (KOMINJYA Gyararyi HANA-Usagi/Fukuoka)
2011 Solo exhibition "Ephemeralness" at TEZUKAYAMA GALLERY, Osaka, Japan Art Fair Tokyo 2011, Tokyo International Forum, Tokyo, Japan Solo exhibition "Kyosei" at Artelier, Fukuoka, Japan ART TAIPEI 2011, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan Fine Art Asia 2011 (Hong Kong Convention Center/Hong Kong)
2012 Takahide Komatsu Solo Exhibition (CORNER/Miyazaki)

■Naoto Tabata ｜ art liberation zone selection
1969 Born in Mie Prefecture
1992 Graduated from Meiji University, Faculty of Law
2004 Studied under Jun Mukoshi of Kutani
2005 Selected for the Ishikawa Traditional Crafts Exhibition Selected for the Traditional Kutani Yaki Exhibition
2011 Awarded the Technique Prize at the Traditional Kutaniyaki Exhibition, solo exhibition (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Crafts Salon/Tokyo)
2012 Exhibition of Ceramic Boxes (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Craft Salon/Tokyo)

■momo irone ｜ Tengensha selection
2008 Group Exhibition "Color Drop" (Coastal Gallery CASO/Osaka) Group Exhibition "New Genre Art by girls" (Gallery Tenjensha/Osaka)
2009 Solo exhibition "Sugar Salt" (Bodaiju Cafe'/Osaka) Solo exhibition "Kioku no Kakurega" (Tenjensha/Osaka) Bodaiju Art Market (Bodaiju Cafe'/Osaka) REAL OSAKA (Bunkamura (Bunkamura Gallery/Tokyo) ART OSAKA-SENGENSHA- (Dojima Hotel/Osaka)
2010 YOUNG ART taipei 2010 (Sunworld Dynasty Hotel/Taipei)ART OSAKA-Exhibition House- (Dojima Hotel/Osaka)Sakura Exhibition 2010 (AG Gallery/New York)
2011 HOPE WORK2011 （Kaigan-dori Gallery CASO/Osaka） Solo Exhibition "momo no Sekku" （Exhibition House/Osaka） THE OSAKAN DREAMS （JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan/Osaka） Art Fair Kyoto （Hotel Monterey Kyoto/Kyoto)
2012 Miniature Art Exhibition (JR Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan/Osaka)

■Haruka Yamagishi ｜ DMOARTS selection
1989 Born in Kyoto
2013 Graduated from Kyoto Seika University, Faculty of Design, Department of Visual Design, Illustration Course

■Shiho Yamamoto ｜ Yoshimi Arts selection
1982 Born in Gifu
2004 "HOPES2005", Selected Graduation Works Exhibition of Hiroshima and Okayama Prefectural Universities (Fukuyama Museum of Art/Hiroshima)
2008 Hiroshima City University Graduate School of Art and Design, Completion of Painting Course, Geibikai Exhibition (Fukuya Hacchobori/Hiroshima), Galleria Reino Grand Prize Exhibition (Hiroshima Prefectural Museum of Art, Kenmin Gallery/Hiroshima)
2009 Solo Exhibition "Shiho Yamamoto Japanese Painting Exhibition? Heartbeat? (Daimaru Kobe Art Gallery/Kobe) KOBE ART MARCHE-Yoshimi Gallery (Crowne Plaza Kobe/Kobe) Spring Inten Exhibition (Mitsukoshi Nihombashi Honten/Tokyo) Hana Inoue and Shiho Yamamoto two person exhibition (Daimaru Tokyo Art Gallery/Tokyo)
2010 Solo exhibition "Shiho Yamamoto - Shin-On -" (Yoshimi Gallery/Osaka) KOBE ART MARCHE - Yoshimi Arts (Kobe Portopia Hotel/Kobe) Yoshimi Arts opening exhibition "0+" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka)
2011 Hana Inoue and Shiho Yamamoto two persons exhibition at Yoshimi Arts/Osaka.
2012 Solo exhibition "Shiho Yamamoto -Sanzo-" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) Insight5 Re-recognition-landscape (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka)

From Wednesday, April 3, 2013 to Tuesday, 16th, 2013 DMOARTS

We will hold a planning exhibition that produces the stationery brand "HIGHTIDE" based in Fukuoka.
Please enjoy creative creativity from Fukuoka to the world at DMOARTS.

BAKIBAKI pattern is not a painting, it is just a sign.
These are not the artist's own words, but I think we can get closer to the essence of his work if we see it that way.
A signature is the simplest form of self-expression. 
From signing a contract to writing a signature on a piece of colored paper or tagging a wall of a building. 
Unlike the previous two, the third is intentional logging.
It may be the same as marking an animal, but it takes on a different meaning when we look back on it later.
--It may be a footprint of human history, or it may be a message to future generations.
What will the BAKIBAKI log become over time? 
It will be left everywhere with the artist who travels around the country.
The sequence is like a never-ending Kintaro candy.
(Text: Kawako Hasegawa)

We will exhibit and sell collaborative works by BAKIBAKI, a street artist known for his activities with the live painting unit DOPPEL, and Masahiro Inoue, a Kyoto-style tableware craftsman.
The works blend casually with people, objects, and spaces, and yet make a strong statement.
Please enjoy the fusion of the latest street art and tradition in contemporary Japan.

BAKIBAKI／Kohei Yamao
Born in Osaka in 1978 and currently lives in Tokyo.
Artist and director of Arahabaki.
In 2001, formed the live painting duo "DOPPEL" in Kyoto, collaborating with various companies from the underground club scene.
In 2007, he began his career as a solo artist with a solo exhibition, and has since released beautiful paintings featuring idols and character cards with the motif of "Desire Kamasoku".
He has been trying to express himself from various angles with his unique viewpoint based on the source of Japanese popular culture.
His representative works, which could be called aesthetics of repetition, commonly known as "Baki Baki," his lifework, are interpreted as "Japanese" or "modern," and are shown in live performances. He has been involved in traditional folding screens, murals inside and outside stores, public art, and bookbinding for musicians, mainly through live painting.
http://www.yamaokohei.com/

INOUE MASAHIRO
Born and currently resides in Kyoto. He is a first-class master of Hotezo-gyoji.
He has been engaged in new and restoration of mounting for shrines and temples, as well as for axes, frames, and folding screens related to Japanese paintings and calligraphy.
He has also produced many works that incorporate new art and design by utilizing the traditional materials and techniques used in Kyo-motogu as an approach to modern architectural styles, including works by Japanese painters and calligraphers, and works that fuse modern art and Kyo-motogu.
Through Kyo-motogu, he is committed to the transmission and dissemination of traditional techniques.
Kyowatch Inoue Kouyado　http://www.miyabi-ex.jp/

OPENING RECEPTIONSaturday, April 20, 2013, 18:00?20:00 DMOARTS Everyone is free to attend.

Mollusc-like body, tentacle-like eyelashes.
Artist Mitsuru Saegusa depicts women with supple lines and psychedelic colors.
Enjoy the stylish artwork created by multiple layers.

Mitsuru Saigusa
Passed digmeout audition in 2005.
Participated in art books and exhibitions in Hong Kong such as "sticker graphics2", "CREAM#5 "MAYTHEFORCEBEWITHYOU" and "Hello Kitty Secret House".
He has attracted attention in the Asian region.

2007 "digmeout EXHIBITION" COMPUND GALLERY, Portland
"SAY NO LIMITS! exhibition", Beijing
Solo Exhibition "GUM" OFFICE, Tokyo
2008 "COMPOUND+Grafuck EXHIBITION "Neulovers""
Solo Exhibition "Chewing Me!" digmeout ART&DINER, Osaka

The solo exhibition “Portrait of nobody” by Tokyo based artist, Takashi Saito will be held at the art gallery and shop DMO ARTS.
He create works based on massive expression, also use his original style like simplified form, blurring of contours.
“I’m interested in the way how can I draw a portfolio not drawing specific someone” by Takashi Saito.
In this exhibition, we can see his original expression that he create some variations from one portrait.
Takashi Saito “Portrait of nobody”

Date: February 27th - March 19th, 2013
Opening hours: 10:00 - 20:00Opening reception: March 2nd, 18:00 - 20:00

Opening reception On Saturday, 9th February 18: 00-20: 00 Everyone can participate.

Mio Matsumoto Profile
Born in 1976.
Mio grew up in Kobe, Japan.
At the age of 20, Mio decided to study in United Kingdomand therefore moved there.
Mio graduated from Kingston University with a 1st-class degree inIllustration and graduated from the Royal College of Art with a MA in communication art and design.
During her study, Mio built up her drawing style based on the observation of things around her.
Using smooth pen work, she draws portraits of everyday life and ordinary people.
She enjoys working in various fields such as advertising, editorial and fashion.
Her work can be seen inmagazines like ELLE Japon, Ginger Numero Tokyo, and Vogue Japan.
She had illustrated over 6 yearsfor a weekly fashion column in Stella magazine by The Sunday Telegraph.
Her advertising clients include Jigsaw, Marc by Marc Jacobs, Miller Harris, Nissan, RioBlush and SpaceNK.
In addition to her published work “My Diary”, her first publication in 2008 from Jonathan Cape publisher,United Kingdom, Mio has created a memorable love filled flick book “Kiss”.
Mio is currently living and working in Tokyo.
Last year, she created a main visual image for Horse Racing in Japan.
Also released original productsthough Jed Root x Francfran collection by Francfranc.
www.miomatsumoto.com

Art is a rich and great waste, a play that stimulates the imagination, and a universal means of communication.
There is a door of wonder on every person's side, and when you open it, you will find a world that is a little more delightful than today.
In a public place, we set up something special every day as if it were a festival.
The wall there is always something fun, and when you go there, you can meet someone, feel happy, be a little bit moved, and touch something unique.
The only thing you can get is to involve and connect with artists and many people.
We open numerous doors.

DMOARTS will hold an exhibition of new "three-dimensional" works in the space of My First ART, hoping that something will remain in each of them for a long time, just like reverberations. Original goods for each artist are also in the works.
Come and discover these up-and-coming young artists.

■Participating Artists
Takahiro Ikeda
Born in Shiga in 1983, Ikeda graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2007.
Ikeda uses decorative abstract imagery to express the allure of sweet and bitter chocolate.
By using cocoa powder as pigment to bring the texture and color closer to the real thing, he creates delicious works that evoke memories of when anyone has tasted chocolate.
2011 "choco color" [2kw gallery, Osaka]
choco taste", [Hyogo/GALLREY 301due].

Kazuya Kitaura
Born in Osaka in 1983.
Completed the three-dimensional sculpture course in the design art major at Osaka University of Arts Junior College of Arts in 2005.
In 2010, he demolished his atelier "Miyanomae 24," which he had spent four years building on a mountain in Toyonou, Osaka, and relocated to Nishinakajima, Osaka.
Currently working at the atelier "24 Nakajima".
He creates kibori works with pop colors and kitschy motifs that coexist with the ruggedness of the wooden carving marks, and that cannot help but make the viewer smile.
2012 "Sculpture in a clothing store" [BRU NA BOINNE TOKYO, Tokyo
2011 "Sculpture in a Curry Shop" [Curry&chai little GANESH, Hyogo, Japan　
Kibori Exhibition, Ban Gallery, Osaka, Japan
 http://kazdose.com/

Yoshihiro Sagawa
1983 Born in Osaka.
2005 Graduated from Osaka College of Art, Department of Design and Fine Arts, majoring in sculpture.
He is a literate physical artist who deconstructs letters and words and transforms them into three-dimensional works with great physical seriousness.
His works stimulate the hot and sad part of everyone's heart.
2009 "After School After School Exhibition" [Former Rissei Elementary School/Kyoto] Solo exhibition "Motion and Trouble Why" [GALLERY Hane Usagi/Kyoto
2012 Solo exhibition "orz" [GALLERY wks. / Osaka)
 http://www.sagawatakahiro.com/

Naoto Kita
Born in Kyoto in 1985.
Graduated from Osaka University of Arts in 2010 with a Master's degree in Metal Crafts.
He creates three-dimensional works using metal as his main material with a human motif.
His works are somewhat sad and melodious, and show the hard material of metal in an organic way.
2009 "KITA NAOTO METAL EXHIBITION" [Gallery Maronie, Kyoto]
2012 "Adventurers of Beauty" [Osaka Mitsukoshi Isetan] "Kizugawa Art" [Kyoto].

 Kazuya Kitaura's Kibori Workshop
2013.2.11 Monday 13:00-18:00

Opening Reception January 19th 18: 00 - Everyone can participate.

I am familiar with it and I do not feel anything.
I do not stop mind, because I think that it is natural.
But if you look at it and add a little imaginative power there, it becomes a very strange and attractive world.
The world I think, it is a little manke, but it is bad, it seems like a normal world not to be seen normally.
Perhaps it may have been seen before, a scene that may possibly meet tomorrow-Ayako Motonaga

Language is a word to celebrate.
Power lives in words, blessing words bring happiness.
A good word enters from the eyes, arrives at the lips, and can be launched, from which prayers can be put in one stroke so that a gorgeous year can be opened.
Continuing from last year, DMOARTS 's New Year's Holiday will hold a work exhibition by Yoriko Youda . Prior to this exhibition, as last year, she dedicated Yoriko Youda to Sumiyoshi Taisha.
Please enjoy lucky works with auspicious words, calling luck just by decorating them.

■ Opening Party December 29 (Sat) 18: 00-20: 00 DMOARTS Anyone can participate

It is a gift.
Small and cute things.
Even if it is not a jewel, it is sparkling and shining.
Beautiful things.
Cool stuff.
Those who can feel that it is precious.
Everyone is delighted with the gift, the people, the people who watch it, and the people who watch over it.
Around the circle like Rondo, a new imagination is born.
A testimony that leads to happy.
What you want to hug.
The theme of this exhibition is twinkle.

It is sometimes wrapped in and carried by those embracing the sparkle of the moment and the warmth of eternity, aware of the feelings that connect people and the small sign that feels in the heart.
It is a beautiful and charming world of angels and goddesses over the witness of peace and love to the future or from the future.