Exhibitions

Jeff Koons "Balloon Dog (Blue) (reproduction)" Resin cast, 29.5×31.4×12.3cm

Christmas Art Fair
December 5(Sat)–25(Fri), 2020

We hold "Christmas Art Fair" following last year with gratitude for customers' patronage.
The collection of MIZOE ART GALLERY focuses on painting ranging from works by deceased artists to ones by young artists.


Hiroshi YOSHIDA "Mt. Fuji from Musashino" Woodcut print,40.5×27cm, in 1928

Exhibiting artists
Zenzaburo KOJIMA/Ryohei KOISO/Kenichi NAKAMURA/Takuji NAKAMURA/Shigeru MORITA/Hitone NOMA/Takanori OGISU/Hiroshi KANOSUE/Yukio KODAMA/Kazu WAKITA/Ryonosuke FUKUI/Wasaburo ITOZONO/Chozaburo INOUE/Ryo HIRANO/Yoshika FUJITA/Hiroki ODA/ Chimei HAMADA/Shin MIYAZAKI/Hiroshi NAKANE/Ei-Q/Genichiro INOKUMA/Toshimitsu IMAI/Kokuta SUDA/Shosuke OSAWA/Tatsuoki NANBATA/Zenzo SAKAMOTO/Waichi TSUTAKA/Ay-O/Mitsuo KANO/Hiroshi YOSHIDA/Hasui KAWASE/Tatsuo TAKAYAMA/Nampu KATAYAMA/Fumiko HORI/Takashi ASADA/
Pablo PICASSO/Salvador DALI/Joan MIRÓ /Marc CHAGALL/Léonard FOUJITA/Toulouse LAUTREC/Fernand LEGER/Willem de KOONING/Antoni CLAVE/Antoni TÀPIES/Jeff KOONS/Ben SHAHN/Joel SHAPIRO/Paul AIZPIRI/Jean CARZOU/Andre BRASILIER/Jacques DEPERTHES



Flower Park - Christmas Wreath Making Workshop
We will make a full-fledged lease. The interior is nicely colored with a diameter of about 30cm. Children are also welcome to join.

Date: 12,14,15th Dec ,2020
Time frames/ 2 classes from 14:00 and 16:00(60 min)
Location/ FLOWER PARK (next to MIZOE ART GALLERY)
Fee/ 3,500yen (material and participation fee included)
Reservation/ 092-739-8783 FLOWER PARK
http://flowerpark.info/

＊The deadline for reservation is 2days before of the lesson's date.
＊Capacity for each lesson is 3 people.
＊We also have a New Year's arrangement class, so please contact us.

Christmas Present Lottery
If you purchased 3,000 yen worth of either paintings, flowers, or wines during the fair, you can get the privilege of "Christmas Present Lottery"!The gifts include a lithograph as a special prize, a set of two glasses by Baccarat, original wines, a poinsettia, an original calendar of MIZOE GROUP, and coupon tickets.



Paul AIZPIRI "Roofs in Paris" Oil, 54.5×46cm
Chonan YAMAGUCHI "Work" Watercolor 37.8×26.9cm
Hitone NOMA "Rose" Gouache 40.8×31.8cm

"A Story of the Kind World" Fumihiro OGA Exhibition
December 12th (Sat) – 27th (Sun), 2020

10:00am – 6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Vanue: MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO

*The artist will be present at the gallery on 12.13.24.25.26.27 December, 2020.

▼Opening event
December 12th (Sat) 15:00 start
Please enjoy the chat with the artist.
He will also read aloud his original poem with music.(Acoustic guitar performance by Shoichi Shimura)

His imagined landscape appears like the world of a fairy tale at a glance although the sorrow of human being and melancholic elements are hidden. The sophisticated colors are created by adding lots of layers of paint like textiles. You will be immersed in the world of artworks full of poetical sentiment created by Fumihiro Oga.

Fumihiro OGA / 1971 Born in Matsuyama-shi, Ehime Prefecture. Majored picture book writer course at Osaka Sogo College of Design. A number of solo and group exhibitions inside and outside Japan. Won the grand prize at Message from the Young Painters Show. The Hakone Open-air Museum prize at Painting Japanese Nature Exhibition. Many illustrations for cover pages including "the Disease of Soseki Natsume and 'Ten Nights Dreaming" by Norihiko Miyoshi, "Thinking of Modern Folk Tales" by Miyoko Matsutani. Appeared on the TV programme by BS Fuji “Night Before The Break ~ Next Generation Artists ~” on 12 January 2018. Published the poetry and art book "the Pocketbook of a Night Bird" ( 9 April 2016, planning and publishing department of Gallery Echo-ann).

The 35th Anniversary of the Death
Rey CAMOY Exhibition
November 14th (Sat) – November 29th (Sun), 2020
10am – 6pm　＊Open every day during the exhibition.

Rey Camoy who ended his life at the age of 57 thirty five years ago. He faced themes that are universal among people including life and death, getting old, loneliness, and love. The pieces of his artworks the style of which seems to gouge out inside of objects still do not stop attracting many people across generations.
What did the painter look at and wanted to tell us who flamboyantly run through his life while struggling between despair and hope?
We hope this exhibition consisting of 15 works becomes an opportunity to face Rey Camoy, the lone painter again.
We are waiting for your visits to our gallery.

Rey CAMOY: Born in Kanazawa, Ishikawa in 1928. (Legally domiciled in Nagasaki.) Graduated from Kanazawa College of Art. Merit Award in the Showakai Exhibition. Minister of Education Award in the Niki Exhibition. The 12th Yasui Award. A member of Nikikai. Solo Exhibition in the United States. Died in Kobe in 1985.

〈Exhibition commemorating Open after renovation〉
New annex “Collection Exhibition” Saturday October 17th - Monday November 23th
Main building “Selection Exhibition” Saturday October 17th - Sunday November 1st

　
Rey Camoy "Church" / Genichiro INOKUMA "EXPRESS WAY Q"

It has been 12 years since our gallery was opened at the current place in 2008. We are profoundly grateful for your patronage and support.
This time, we opened a new gallery next to the current gallery to expand the scale. We will work harder for holding more fascinating exhibitions, discovering talented artists, and introducing various artworks in the two different spaces.
In the exhibition commemorating the opening, we introduce artworks reflecting two policies of our activity. The first is “Collection”. We collect great works around the world to make a place in which people seeking art can meet works at any time. The other is “Selection”. Finding great artists is essential for growth of a gallery. We exhibit the works of the artists whom we selected, and whom we are walking together with.
The thing we cherish in handling art is that they are “things that remain through ages”. We offer universal values which does not depend on fashion and market, and which move people in any generation. (Mizoe Art Gallery, Kazunobu Abe)

“COLLECTION” exhibiting Artists:
Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Marc Chagall, Alberto Giacometti, Fernand Léger, Wassily Kandinsky, Moïse Kisling, Hanjiro SAKAMOTO, Toshiyuki HASEGAWA, Yasuo KAZUKI, Genichiro INOKUMA, Takeo YAMAGUCHI, Rey Camoy, Hideo Benjamin NODA, Wasaburo ITOZONO, Ryo HIRANO, Hiroki ODA, Kokuta SUDA, Teppei UJIYAMA, Setsuko MIGISHI, Fumiko HORI, Gyoji NOMIYAMA, Tomonori TOYOFUKU, Chimei HAMADA, Yoshio YOSHIMURA

“SELECTIONE” exhibiting Artists:
Keiichi INOUE, Takeshi WEI,Fumihiro OGA, Tamie OKUYAMA, Masahito KATAYAMA, Shin KAMIKAWA, KIM MYUNG SIK, Isamu KOSJIMA, Keisei KOBAYASHI, Takahide KOMATSU, Nami SHIBATA, Satoru JOGASAKI, Mitsuko TABE, Kota NAKAMURA, Satoru MINAMI, Kikuma MOCHIZUKI, Takashi YATOJI, Kenpei YUNDE

The new annex of Mizoe Art Gallery opens as a new landmark!

A relaxing space of art in the city of Fukuoka.
The new annex of Mizoe Art Gallery opens as a new landmark!
The new annex is a space with a sense of liberation thanks to the atrium of 5m ceiling height. In the building, we can feel the scent and warmth of trees that is the basis of Mizoe Group. Mizoe Art Gallery will keep on contributing to Fukuoka with art.

ambivalence: Kota NAKAMURA exhibition
Nov. 7th(Sat) - 23th(Mon), 2020

Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA
*The artist will be present at the gallery on 7,8,21,22,23 November, 2020.
*Talking event from 2pm on 7,22 November, 2020.

Ambivalence - this exhibition title implies the world expressed in Kota Nakamura's artworks. Beauty and ugliness, life and death, for example.
That was what caused the frisson when I saw his work for the first time. The beauty of a moment when a bullet pierces matter. A transient and also beautiful shape drawn by time and trajectory that should be an action of taking a life away. A contradiction that it is made by the gentle-mannered and calm person.
His history is also interesting as he has a grandfather who is a Western-style painter, Takuji Nakamura, and he learned contemporary art in New York in early time where he experienced the simultaneous terrorist attack.
I want to know more deeply about this artist, I want to see what kind of works and exhibition space he creates. Such thoughts urged me to this solo exhibition.
This is his first solo exhibition in Fukuoka. Please look forward to it.(Kazunobu Abe : MIZOE ART GALLERY)

Kota NAKAMURA
Born in Kamakura city, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan in 1975
Graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY in 1999.　Completed MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 2003, and received Ph.D from Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo in 2010.
Selected finalist for the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art of Toro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo in 2015.
Won the Bronze prize in Tokyo Art Olympia in 2017, and exhibited Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh in 2018.
Many exhibitions held in New York and abroad, currently based in Tokyo.


Border
in 2019 / bullet, glass, and film / 18 x 18 x 0.4in each

“FORM” Nami SHIBATA Exhibition
Sept. 12nd Sat - Sept. 27th Sun, 2020

When I paint, my attention focuses on superficial elements such as painterly shape and silhouette of motifs. The brush moves without intention to paint particular objects. Paint piles up on a canvas without anything to claim.

I concentrate on fussing over forms which is a meaningless action. I spend energy on it. I consider trying to choose this way or that ( maybe I am just playing pretending to think). I become happy or hate the shape depending on the result from the function and motion of the body.

The images I saw one day somewhere transform on the canvas. They may have appeared in my dream, maybe someone I saw yesterday.

To concentrate on forms seems to be similar to fussing over the way of breathing. In what way, how much I inhale and exhale, I am just repeating it.

Nami SHIBATA

Nami Shibata:
Born in Kumamoto in 1985. Graduated from Fukuoka Prefectural Dazaifu High School. Left Onomichi City University Graduate Program in Arts & Design before graduating. Selected for TOKYO WONDER WALL 2009 (and again in 2010.) “ROOFS” was exhibited at Tokyo Wonder Site Emerging 2010. Selected for Shell Art Award 2013. Solo and group exhibition in Tokyo, Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Kagawa and more. Has exhibited at Art Fair Tokyo since 2014.

"Tree" Oil on Canvas, 15.51×10.11 inches, in 1963

Gyoji NOMIYAMA exhibition
-The Painter and the Journey of Painting -
August 22nd(Sat) - September 6th(Sun), 2020

10:00am-6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA
*The artist will be present at the gallery from 16:00 on the 22nd August.



I knew a collection of Gyoji Nomiyama by accident. Fate meant us to meet it.There was full of dreams and hopes of the painter and the path he has walked. Paintings travel as a painter does. It leaves parent and travels from people to people around the world.
We will exhibit 45 paintings including oil and watercolor created during the period from the 1940s to the 90s including the time soon after the war and the Paris period. Please look at the world Gyoji, a painter who turns 100 this year.

Gyoji NOMIYAMA
1920 Born in Fukuoka. Graduated from the Oil Painting department at Tokyo University of the Arts.52-64 Stayed in France. The Yasui Prize. 68-81 Provided teaching at Tokyo University of the Arts.The Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. Fukuoka Prefecture Culture Awards. Mainichi Art Award. Person for Cultural Merits. 2014 The Order of Culture.




"Queen" Watercolor on Paper, 23.77×16.02 inches, in 1967

　
'Kudara Kannon on a moonlit night' Oil painting 1621cm×970cm
'A prolific apple tree on a moonlit night' Oil painting 1621cm×970cm

Kenpei YUNDE exhibition –The voice of soil−
July 11th Sat. - July 26th Sun., 2020

10:00 – 18:00 (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA

The artist will be present on 11,12,13,14,15,18,19,25,26 July in the gallery.

◆Event 1
「Live painting performance – New impressionism of Yunde style」
14:00- 7/12(Sun)
※Free for viewing

◆Event 2
「Kazokuwari (かぞくわり)」Film showing & Public talk
　7/25(Sat),26(Sun)

[Schedule]
13:00- Reception
13:20-15:30 Film showing
15:40- Public talk & Introduction of the artist’s atelier by Kenpei YUNDE and Shohei SIOZAKI
(Contents: the backstory of the film, the movie of the painting process)

[Admission]
¥1,000（with a free drink） The capacity is 10 people
*Reservation required

[Introduction]
Director / Scriptwriter - Shohei SHIOZAKI
About: This long film is the story of a talented painter from Nara prefecture.
Kenpei YUNDE painted all the works in the film and we can see plenty of his works.



Kenpei YUNDE is an artist to the core. I thought like this when I heard his comment for my phone-call.
he said “I can’t go out anywhere because of Corona, so I just engage in painting in the atelier. I finished much more works.”
His concepts, “From the footing, from the soil”, expresses in the specific painting style of repeating the process of glazing and scraping more than 50 layers through one year.
He says “Since this world’s value is dramatically changing, I want everyone to enjoy and feel my works. All of them have the voice of soil and put down the roots in the earth.
This is the best time for Kenpei YUNDE’s exhibition. We really look forward to seeing you in our gallery. – Kazunobu Abe, Mizoe Art Gallery

【Kenpei YUNDE】
1970 Born in Osaka, Japan.
1996 B.F.A from Osaka University of Arts.
2013 Received the Minister of Education Award.
Currently a member of Issuikai standing committee, Kensuikai standing committee, Japan Artists Association, and more.

"Tree" Oil on Canvas, 15.51×10.11 inches, in 1963

Gyoji NOMIYAMA exhibition
-The Painter and the Journey of Painting -
June 27th(Sat) - July 12th(Sun), 2020

10:00am-6:00pm (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO

I knew a collection of Gyoji Nomiyama by accident. Fate meant us to meet it.There was full of dreams and hopes of the painter and the path he has walked. Paintings travel as a painter does. It leaves parent and travels from people to people around the world.
We will exhibit 45 paintings including oil and watercolor created during the period from the 1940s to the 90s including the time soon after the war and the Paris period. Please look at the world Gyoji, a painter who turns 100 this year.

Gyoji Nomiyama
Born in 1920, in Honami village(Izuka city), Fukuoka prefecture. 1943 Graduated from the Oil Painting department at Tokyo University of the Arts. Conscription, sent to Manchuria. 52-64 Stayed in France. 58 The second Yasui Prize. 68 The assistant professor at Tokyo University of the Arts (a professor from 72 to 81). 92 The 42nd the Minister of Education Award for Fine Arts. 94 The 1st Fukuoka Prefecture Culture Awards. 96 Mainichi Art Award. 2000 Person for Cultural Merits. 2014 The Order of Culture.





"Pleasure" Watercolor on Paper, 12.40×9.29 inches, in 1959

　
'Kudara Kannon on a moonlit night' Oil painting 1621cm×970cm
'A prolific apple tree on a moonlit night' Oil painting 1621cm×970cm

Kenpei YUNDE exhibition –The voice of soil−
June 6th (Sat) - June 21st (Sun), 2020

10:00 – 18:00 (Open every day during the event)
Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO
*The artist will be present on 6,7,8,9,20,21 June in the gallery.

◆Event 1
「Live painting performance – New impressionism of Yunde style」
14:00- 6/7(Sun)
※Free for viewing

◆Event 2
「Kazokuwari (かぞくわり)」Film showing & Public talk
　6/20(Sat),21(Sun)

[Schedule]
13:00- Reception
13:20-15:30 Film showing
15:40- Public talk & Introduction of the artist’s atelier by Kenpei YUNDE and Shohei SIOZAKI
(Contents: the backstory of the film, the movie of the painting process)

[Admission]
¥1,000（with a free drink） The capacity is 15 people
*Reservation required

[Introduction]
Director / Scriptwriter - Shohei SHIOZAKI
About: This long film is the story of a talented painter from Nara prefecture.
Kenpei YUNDE painted all the works in the film and we can see plenty of his works.



Kenpei YUNDE is an artist to the core. I thought like this when I heard his comment for my phone-call.
he said “I can’t go out anywhere because of Corona, so I just engage in painting in the atelier. I finished much more works.”
His concepts, “From the footing, from the soil”, expresses in the specific painting style of repeating the process of glazing and scraping more than 50 layers through one year.
He says “Since this world’s value is dramatically changing, I want everyone to enjoy and feel my works. All of them have the voice of soil and put down the roots in the earth.
This is the best time for Kenpei YUNDE’s exhibition. We really look forward to seeing you in our gallery. – Kazunobu Abe, Mizoe Art Gallery

【Kenpei YUNDE】
1970 Born in Osaka, Japan.
1996 B.F.A from Osaka University of Arts.
2013 Received the Minister of Education Award.
Currently a member of Issuikai standing committee, Kensuikai standing committee, Japan Artists Association, and more.