Yoshimi Arts - ART OSAKA 2024 Expanded Section

Jul 18 (thu) - 22 (mon), 2024
18(thu)　　　　　 14:00-19:00 Open to the Public
19(fri)－21(sun)　11:00-19:00 Open to the Public
22(mon) 　　　　 11:00-17:00 Open to the Public
Creative Center OSAKA
4-1-55, Kitakagaya, Suminoe-ku, Osaka, 559-0011, JAPAN
ART OSAKA | https://www.artosaka.jp/

Yoshimi Arts is pleased to announce that the gallery will be participating in “ART OSAKA 2024” to be held in July.
We have been selected for the "Expanded Section" which will be held at the Creative Center Osaka in Kitakagaya, and we will exhibit "♡Cinderella's Dream Stage♡" (1996) by Minako Nishyama at our booth.
Also at "Expanded plus", we plan to exhibit her "Sakura Painting", in addition, three-dimensional works and photographic works of roses made of sugar.

"♡Cinderella's Dream Stage♡":
This piece was featured in the 1997 solo exhibition "Pink♥PiNk♥PinK" (Otani Memorial Art Museum, Nishinomiya City / Hyogo).
Nishiyama transformed her collection of paper toys for young girls into life-sized models. The artwork embodied both the foreground and background of the stage, symbolizing the contrast between fantasy and reality.
By deliberately using cardboard as the material, she created a two-dimensional world reminiscent of a stage backdrop to highlight superficiality and the interplay between light and shadow.

image | ♡Cinderella's Dream Stage♡　1996　Acrylic paint on corrugated paper boards　h.343×w.625×d.325cm
photo by Koichi Nishimura　©Minako Nishiyama

Minako Nishiyama　
Minako Nishiyama is an artist who garnered attention with her three-dimensional works that incorporate Japanese ‘girl culture’, including "The Pink House" (1991), reminiscent of the life-size Barbie house-like ‘Licca-chan’s house’, and Takarazuka Revue’s backdrop-esque pieces. She is one of the leading figures who integrated the unique Japanese subculture as the medium for works of art.
Two works from Nishiyama’s Telephone Project, "♡Erica’s Palpitant Teleppon Club♡" (1992) and "MOSHI MOSHI Pink ~ the other side of the telephone ~" (1995), both inspired by the adult-entertainment business in the 90s, have indicated that the duality of pink, which symbolizes girl culture and the sex industry in Japan, intersects with consumer culture.
To probe ‘the essence of things’, since the late 1990s she has been using baking ingredients such as sugar and egg whites to produce "Sugar Crown" (1999), or roses, creating sweet and delicate works, in an attempt to render their transformation over time. Furthermore, her exploration has extended to a wide range of materials and methods, as seen in her Ref-work (ref paintings), a series of mural works that pursue barely visible patterns using the reflection of colors, discovered through her strong interest in light; and her latest works incorporating video.
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