ART FAIR TOKYO 2018
No.S35 Yoshimi Arts
Minako Nishiyama
 
 


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ART FAIR TOKYO 2018
No.S35 Yoshimi Arts
Minako Nishiyama

Mar 8, 2018
13:00-14:00 Press View
14:00-16:00 Private View
16:00-20:00 Vernissage
Mar 9 11:00-20:00 Public View
Mar 10 11:00-20:00 Public View
Mar 11 11:00-17:00 Public View
Hall E, Tokyo International Forum

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Yoshimi Arts is pleased to announce the solo exhibition by Minako Nishiyama in the "ART FAIR TOKYO 2018".

Since the late 1980s, Minako Nishiyama has been noted for creating sculptural work that intensely highlights “girl culture” with the huge piece The PINKÚ House (1991), that is reminiscent of Licca-chan’s house (something like Barbie’s house), or work that is like the backdrop for a Takarazuka stage, using pulp and paper as the main material. She is one of the figures that began making work through the unique medium of Japanese subculture.
Later, after the Great Hanshin Earthquake in 1995, she began using baking ingredients such as sugar and egg-white to create Sugar Crown (1999), or roses, to create ephemeral work that is easily destroyed. It is around this time that her work seemingly changes visually, however the nature of the work does not change, and rather that the aspects to continue pursuing “femininity” or human nature are expanded. Additionally, her works have utilized a wide range of methods and materials, such as work that began with her interest in light, “Ref-work” (ref paintings), which uses the reflection of color, murals painted directly onto the wall in which patterns and vague pink colors are visible, and works made with a camera.
In this ART FAIT TOKYO 2018, we will show the installation including three-dimentional works and photos of "Sugar Rose" made from sugar.

 

 

 

reference image | "~melting dream~ 2014 (Rokko Meets Art) / "Untitled" 2016 C-print, face mounted to plexiglas / "Untitled" 2016 sugar paste, wire with plexiglas case

 

Minako Nishiyama
1965 Born in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
1989 BA Kyoto City University of Arts
1991 MA Kyoto City University of Arts
1997 Six-month residency in New York supported by the Asian Cultural Council
2003 Banff Creative Residency, Canada
Lives and works in Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
 
Solo Exhibitions
2017 "MINAKO NISHIYAMA / wall works" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) 
  "MINAKO NISHIYAMA / drawings" (Yoshimi Arts/Osaka) 
2009 "i-ro-i-ki" (Gareria Punto Zero/Okayama)
2008 "i-ro-i-ki" (Kodama Gallery/Tokyo)
2007 "i-ro-i-ki" (Kyoto Art Center/Kyoto)
  "Ref-paintingsI" (Gareria Punto Zero/Okayama)
2006 "i-ro-i-ki" (Kodama Gallery/Osaka)
2005 "i-ro-i-ki" (Kodama Gallery/Tokyo)
  "RED roomI" (Gareria Punto/Okayama)
2004 "illuminé" (Kodama Gallery/Osaka)
  "Pink Vacancy" (Shiseido Gallery/Tokyo)
2003 "A Hundred Flowers Fell. So I Heard, So I Saw..." (Gallery Eve/Tokyo)
2002 "Sweet Dream" (Mitsubihi - Jisho ARTIUM/Fukuoka)
  "MINAKO NISHIYAMA" (Gallery Shimada/Tokyo)
2000 "MINAKO NISHIYAMA:destiny of Sugar Crown" (Gallery Shimada/Tokyo)
1999 "MINAKO NISHIYAMA" (Gallery Shimada/Tokyo)
1997 "Pink ♥ PiNk ♥ PinK" (Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City/Hyogo)
1995 "Curator's Eye '95" (Gallery NY House/Tokyo)
1994 "MINAKO NISHIYAMA" (Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot/Paris)
1993 "MINAKO NISHIYAMA" (Gallery Shimada/Tokyo)
1992 "♡ Erica's Palpitant Teleppon Club ♡" (Photo Interform/Interform Contemporary/Osaka)
1991 (Gallery 16/Kyoto)
1989 (Shinanobashi Gallery/Osaka)
1988 (Art Space Niji/Kyoto)
 

Group Exhibitions

2016 "stereotypical" (Gallery PARC/Kyoto)
2015 "Kawaii" (University for the Creative Arts Farnham/UK)
  "On the Exhibition Room" (CAS/Osaka)
  "Oita Toilennale 2015" (Oita)
2014 "Changing" (Takamatsu City Museum of Art/Kagawa)
  "Kyoto Seika University and Hongik University Sculpture Exhibition" (Gallery Fleur, Kyoto
  Seika University/Kyoto)
  "Rokko Meets Art 2014" (Hyogo)
2013 "Rokko Meets Art 2013" (Hyogo)
  "Setouchi Triennale 2013" (Kagawa)
  "All You Need Is LOVE" (Mori Art Museum/Tokyo)
2012 "AIR 3331" (3331 Arts Chiyoda/Tokyo)
2011 "Cafe in Mito 2011" (Art Tower Mito/Mito)
2009 "Knit Cafe in My Room by Mitsuharu Hirose and Minako Nishiyama" (21st Century Museum of
  Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/Ishikawa)
  "Art Tells the Times: Works by WomenArtists" (Shiseido Gallery/Tokyo)
2007 "Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan" ( Long March Space/Beijing;
  Guangzhong Museum of Art/Guangzhou) 
2006 "Take me with you" (Circulo de Bellas Artes/Madrid, etc.)
  "The Force of Sculpture" (CASO/Osaka)
  "collection I" (21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa/Ishikawa)
2005 "Rosa! the Exposed Color: Pink" (Chinretsukan Gallery, The University Art Muaeum, Tokyo
  University of the Arts/Tokyo)
  "ignore your perspective" (Kodama Gallery/Tokyo)
  "Animate: Anime in Japanese and Korean Contemporary Art (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum
  /Fukuoka; Sungkok Art Museum/Seoul)
2004 「OFFICINA ASIA」 (Palazzo dell'Arengo/Rimini, Italy)
  "Takarazuka: The Land of Dreams, Suntory Museum Tempouzan/Osaka; Tokyo Opera City Art
  Gallery/Tokyo; Sogo Museum/Yokohama)
2003 "party" (CAP HOUSE/Kobe)
2002 "A ★ MUSE ★ LAND 2003" (Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art/Sapporo)
  "Our Hero & Heroine Show" (Otaru City Museum of Art/Otaru)
2001 "Promenade in Asia: Cute" (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito/Mito)
2000 "Let's Entertain" (Walker Art Center/Minneapolis; Portland Art Museum/Portland; Centre
  GeorgesPompidou/Paris; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/Wolfsburg; Miami Art Museum/Miami)
1999 "Art Sweet Home" (Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art)
1998 "The Manga" (Museum of Contemporary Art/Tokyo)
1997 "De-genderism" (Setagaya Art Museum/Tokyo)
1992 "Private Diaries 10 Japanese Young Artists" (Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito/Mito)
 
Collection
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa; Takamatsu City Museum of Art