I will hold my last solo exhibition in Japan, as I will be moving out of the country for a while from this spring, 2024. It will be held from April 12 to 15, 10:00 to 21:00 at my studio in Ota-ku, Tokyo.
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I will be leaving Japan and relocating overseas for a while after May 2024. I will be training in art overseas.
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The last event will be held at Atelier U+Me, a studio created by Kota, an artist of oneness. This is a place that will never exist again, and it is also the site of his solo exhibition, where I will hold a meditation surrounded by many artworks. And this meditation will be very different from ordinary meditations.
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In other words, it is just a painting. In rough terms, it is a canvas on which colors have been added. However, it is also “just a painting. Looking at the figures, it can be said that mankind gives a very high value to art. So why is art so expensive? Here is an artist’s view on the subject.
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Why do people buy art? Here is my own take on the motivations and reasons for this, as I am currently an artist by profession. Why do business owners often own art? As an artist, I have seen many people buying artwork up close and personal. I have also seen the reasons and commonalities among them through my own sales of artwork.
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This expresses how seemingly different worlds are, in fact, connected. It symbolizes the concept that everything in this cosmos is fundamentally one.
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For a limited time, 50% of the sales from my artwork will be donated for disaster relief for the 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake.
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I didn’t know why, and I had no proof. But maybe—just maybe—we’ve been here, with these people, in this place, in this moment, thousands and tens of thousands of times before.
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I have forgotten everything, and arrived in this world. This self is not alone. I am with myself. Now, I and I are here. I journey with myself.
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Maybe I would have died back in third grade, at eight or nine years old. Thinking that, a strange feeling sprouted toward this life that had been extended back then. A feeling that was tender, grateful, like a guardian saying, “You’ve come this far.”
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