《Newspaper 99-N》1999 old newspaper 《Newspaper99-NG》Japanese paper, iron powder, styrofoamModern society enabled especially the women to live diverse ways of living and have new values which were completely incomparable with the past. It is said that gender stereotypes have become less prominent and today is even celebrated as an age for women’s empowerment, yet behind the scenes, there has been a long history with highlights and shadows.
Gallery Yamaki Fine Art has been introducing many solo exhibitions of women artists. Through engaging with these artists, we have come to realize that they did not always receive the right evaluation, and noticed furthermore of their difficulties of having to face institutional, social and notional barriers. On the other hand, keeping distance with such oppression, these women never gave up in presenting their works and challenged new mediums with a persistent attitude to pursue new and unique expressions.
By revisiting such backgrounds and expressions, we trace back the path of how female artists today have come to express their languages. And by doing so, we will question on what basis the artists had been evaluated, how their awareness have changed, taking the social backgrounds surrounding the situations of art and women into consideration. We hope that will lead to our deeper understanding.
The fifth exhibition features Kimiyo MISHIMA who represents postwar Japanese art.
Among various works of Mishima, “paper”, especially newspaper motif works will be the main exhibition for this time. 《Newspaper 99-N》《Newspaper 99-NG》 are the two most important ones that is to be exhibited in Kansai area for the first time. They were exhibited in her solo show “Crazy Paper” at INAX Gallery in 1999. From the 1980s, the artist has keenly worked on big scaled artwork, in which these two works included. She says she expressed “the crisis of newspaper endangered by the internet” in these two. Newspapers ranged flat on the wall are conspicuous in them. They are in a way the outdated information that are useless and as such, overwhelming. They are also witnesses of the past and have their own character and tranquility as such. Despite of losing the inevitability due to the IT dominance, paper media are still cycling around us and continue to be disposed. We may expect in them not the information, the content, but just the scrap of paper, the material that is ephemeral but beautiful.
There has lately been soaring revaluation of MISHIMA. We hope that this exhibition including the monumental works that will be exhibited for the first time in Kansai will shed some lights to our modern society.
【Selected solo Exhibitions】
2024“Kimiyo Mishima” Nerima Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2023“MISHIMA Kimiyo: Play Watch Create” Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, Japan
2023CADAN: CADAN: Gendai Bijutsu 2023, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth, Tokyo
2022“Kimiyo Mishima”, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo Japan.
2020Mishima Kimiyo, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
20204th Collection Gallery Exhibition: Mishima Kimiyo, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
2018'Works since the painting period 1970-,' Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan.
2018Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Switzerland.
2017"Newspaper99N/ Newspaper99-NG,” Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe, Japan.
2017Frieze New York 2017, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art Booth, New York, USA.
2017“Early Works,” MEM, Tokyo, Japan.
2016Taka Ishii Gallery, New York, USA.
2015“Kimiyo Mishima at Art Factory Jonanjima, Tokyo, Japan.
【Selected Group Exhibitions】
2024'Here and There and Back Again, Japanese Art 1964 – 2024' Nicolas Krupp Gallery （Switzerland）
2024'Artist ni Manabu Sekai no Mikata' Ashiya City Museum of Art and History (Hyogo)
2024Group Exhibition: group exhibition: Relief to Three Dimensional, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2023"Re: Starline 1963-1970/2023 Sympathetic Relations between the Museum and Artists as Seen in the Trends in Contemporary Japanese Art Exhibition", The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2023"11thEnku Grand Award Exhibition: Resonances-Transmission and Creation in the Spirit of Enku-", The Museum of Fine Arts Gif ,Gifu,Japan
2023The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia
2022“POLA MUSEUM OF ART 20th ANNIVERSARY: From Monet to Richter, featuring works from the new collection”, POLA MUSEUM OF ART, Kanagawa, Japan
2022“VOID of NIPPON 77: Postwar Art History Landscape Sequence”, GYRE GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
2022Mori no Iro, Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Kobe
2022“In Commemoration of the Gold Prize of the Ceramic Society of Japan, Takuro Kuwata and Kimiyo Mishima Exhibition” Kochukyo, Tokyo, Japan
2022GYFA Show II “Post-war Female Artists
2022Listening to Clay, Joan B Mirviss LTD, New York
2021Metamorphosis and Evolution, emmy art+, Tokyo
2021Another Energy: Power to Continue Challenging 16 Women Artists from around the World, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2019ELLE LOVES ART, Tokyo
2019"Children and Adults : What Does This Look Like? ," Ashiya City Museum of Art & History, Hyogo, Japan
2019"The Yamamura Collection: Gutai and the Japanese Avant-Garde 1950s–1980s," Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
2019'Taipei Dangdai Art &Ideas', Gallery Yamaki Fine Art booth, Taiwan
2018Collection 2: The 1980s Zeitgeist as a Point of Departure, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
2018“Shigeji and Kimiyo Mishima,” MEM, Tokyo, Japan.
2017Art Basel Hong Kong 2017, MEM Booth, Hong Kong.
2017Chronicle, Chronicle!, Creative Center Osaka, Japan.
2016Taipei Art Fair, Sokyo Gallery Booth, Taiwan.
2014“Identity and Originality" Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo, Japan.
2014“Currents: Japanese Contemporary Art,” Christie's Hong Kong.
2012"The Link Between Words and Art: An Homage to Nakahara Yusuke" Gallery Yamaki Fine Art, Hyogo
【Awards】
2022the 11th Enku Prize
2022the 63rd Mainichi Art Award
20212021 Agency for Cultural Affairs Commissioner's Commendation
2019The 5th Ando Tadao Cultural Foundation Award, Japan
2019Sardi per l’Arte Back to the Future Prize, Turin, Italy
2002Received Yaizu Mayor’s prize at the show ‘Humor’, Shizuoka, Japan.
2001The Contemporary Sculpture exhibition, Yamaguchi Prefectural Prize and The Citizen Prize, Ubeshi Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan.
1996Sai no Kuni Chokoku Variety 1996, Grand Prize, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
1989International Ceramics, winner of the Copper Prize, Tajimi Gymnasium, Japan.
1988Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture Exhibition 1988, Gold Prize, Gifu Toki City Culture Plaza, Japan.
1974International Ceramic Exhibition, winner of Gold Medal, Faenza, Ceramic Museum, Faenza, Italy.
1966Kansai Dokuritsu Effort Prize at Kansai Dokuritsu Exhibition, Japan.
1965Winner of the Prize at the Ninth Annual Shell Exhibition, Shirokiya Department Store, Tokyo, Japan.
1964Kansai Dokuritsu Prize at Kansai Dokuritsu Exhibition, Japan.
1963Dokuritsu Winner of the Grand Prix at Exhibition.
【Artist Information】
Kimiyo MISHIMA
SessionSat. Sep 2, 2017 - Sat. Sep 30, 2017 Closed on Sundays and Mondays
Hours11:00－13:00 / 14:00－19:00
PlaceGallery Yamaki Fine Art
Venue3-9-5-2F Motomachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0022
ContactTEL: 078-391-1666 FAX : 078-391-1667 MAIL: info@gyfa.co.jp
AccessOne minute walk from Motomachi Station, West exit (JR/ Hanshin Line)
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