I want to cherish the origins of Japan!
That's my imaging, which is an ultra-ancient soul!
30,000 years ago, the whole world was hammered stone tools, but only Japan was polished stone tools.
And the Jomon civilization began 16,000 years ago.
The pattern of Jomon pottery is not just a pattern, but is said to be a barrier to protect the sacred water in the pottery.
I heard the voice of onomatopoeia.
For the production, I visited the Mawaki ruins in Noto.
At the Mawaki ruins, there is a row of wooden pillars that reproduce 4,500 years ago and a 9-meter log boat.
The vertically circular pillars are arranged in east, west, north, south, and north, and the three pillars are arranged in a straight line in the direction of sunrise and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes.
In the repeated process of sunrise and sunset, people in the Jomon period built facilities to learn about the changing seasons, cultivated plants, planted trees, made accessories such as kohaku and agate, and made clothes.
I am sure you must have felt the changes in light, wind, and ocean currents.
I think they prayed to the souls of the holy water, the moon, the holy fire, and the earth, and created peaceful life activities that believed in the calendar of the stars and the sun.
I will continue the exhibition "The Sacred Nature and the World of Water".
Painting production: Hirotaka Reike
Video production: Ariyasu
fromAriyasu ArionVimeo.
Japan Federation of Artists, Agency for Cultural Affairs, Shizuoka University Department of Education, Department of Fine Arts, Educational Painting
【Exhibition History】
Born in Hyogo Prefecture in 1953
1983~88 Solo exhibition every year (Gallery Space Adesso, Ashiya)
1983 Grand Prix of the Finale International Art Exhibition, Asahi Art Gallery, Tokyo
1983 Invited exhibition at the 39th Salon de Mé (Espers Pierre Cardin, Paris)
1987 Grand Prix of the Finale International Art Exhibition (Ginza Matsuzakaya Cattleya Salon, Tokyo)
1987 Invited exhibition at the 42nd Salon de May, Musée National de Palais, Paris
1987 Wangbunsha OMNI Art Exhibition, Prize-winning Works Exhibition, Yurakucho Seibu Art Forum, Tokyo
1987 The 8th Auburn Paper Art Exhibition (Auburn University, Alabama, USA, Library)
1988 JACA88 Japan Illustration Exhibition (The Japan Foundation toured TCC Bangkok and Thailand)
1989 Europaria Japan 1989 (Petit Forma Museum, Couban City, Belgium)
1990 Solo Exhibition: Contemporary Art and Ikebana (Dentsu Ad Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo)
1990 Illustration New Wave 100 Artists Exhibition, Dentsu Gallery, Ginza, Tokyo
1993 Artist of Hyogo (Museum of Modern Art, Hyogo, Tsunashiki Tenmangu Shrine, Kobe)
1993 Solo Exhibition: Messages from Plants (Nishiwaki City Okayama Museum of Art, Atelier)
1994 Solo Exhibition, Awa no Sato Art Forum (Gallery Yume Corridor and Machiya, Hallelujah Confectionery, Tokushima)
1994~1995 Went to France as an overseas trainee for artists of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (dispatched for 1 year)
1995 Solo exhibition with ochre, Gallery Bernanos Paris
1999~2009 Cover picture of all 7 volumes of "Shinshaku Kojikiden" written by Kuniharu Abe (late).
2003 Art Exhibition of Play Encounters (Hyogo Prefectural Tajima Longevity Township, Purchase Award)
2007 Prospects of Tomorrow's Art (Hira Museum of Art, Shiga Prefecture)
2008 The 34th Kobe Geibun Art Exhibition (35th Anniversary Exhibition) (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Harada no Mori Gallery)
2009 Published "Let's Draw in Circles" in the March issue of the JAKEN Newsletter (Japan Agency for Cultural Affairs Artist Overseas Trainee Association)
2009 Presented the 35th Kobe Geibun Art Exhibition "Prayer of Life" (Kobe Museum of Art, Kobe City)
2009 A New Wind from Hira Part 63 "Prayer to the Earth" (Hira Museum of Art, Shiga Prefecture)
2009 Presented the exhibition "Prayer and Life" (Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Gallery Building 3F)
2009 Presented the exhibition "Prayer" by the museum lecturer (Atelier Okayama Museum of Art, Nishiwaki City)
2014 Presented the Amagasaki Art Festival "Sea Breeze" (Amagasaki Cultural Center, Hyogo Prefecture)
2016 Presented solo exhibition "CoroCoro Landscape", GALLERY ART POINT bis, Tokyo
2017 Solo Exhibition "Transparent Universe Exhibition" (K.B Gallery, Hiro Corporation, Kobe)
2018 Presented the 16th NAU 21st Century Art Joint Exhibition "The Soul of the Rough Sea", The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Solo Exhibition "Sora no Drops" Exhibition (K.B Gallery, Hiro Corporation, Kobe)
2019 Solo Exhibition "The Shape of Rain" Exhibition (Gallery & Salon Avis Filma, Kobe)
2020 Solo Exhibition: The World of Sacred Nature and Water, Gallery Land's End, Himeji
