We are pleased to present Minako Nishiyama's solo exhibition "★PINK・Pink★" at KAIKA Tokyo by THE SHARE HOTELS, a hotel in Honjo, Tokyo.
Since the late 1980s, Minako Nishiyama has been noted for creating sculptural work that intensely highlight “girl culture” with the huge piece that is reminiscent of Licca-chan’s house (something like Barbie’s house), or work that is like the backdrop for a Takarazuka stage. Later, she began using baking ingredients such as sugar and egg-white to create ephemeral works like sugar crowns or roses that are easily destroyed.
There is seemingly no continuity in the change in the visual representation between her works from the early‘90s and the late‘90s. However, rather than concluding that the works from the two periods being in contrast with each other, it is important to note that the nature of the work has not changed, and has always existed in Nishiyama’s works.
In this exhibition, we will display a masterpiece which uses Japanese girls’ comics from the 90s as the motif and is making its first appearance in Tokyo; a flat-surfaced installation piece from 1997, and was shown in the exhibition, “De-Genderism detruire dit-elle/il” , at the Setagaya Art Museum; and a new work for “Sugar Roses” – a series Nishiyama has been creating with real sugar since the 2000s. The exhibition will embody fragments of Nishiyama’s world and philosophy.
We will also show works Nishiyama created using different media, including the early works from the1980s, the monumental “backdrop-style” pieces shown in the “Takarazuka: The Land of Dreams” exhibition (Suntory Museum in Tempozan, Osaka; Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Tokyo; Sogo Museum of Art in Yokohama, 2004), the “Sugar Rose” pieces after the passing of time, and photo pieces she has been working on in recent years. (Viewing is limited to hotel guests only.)