To Sea of Time - TOHOKU
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Tatsuo Miyajima: Sea of Time - TOHOKU Project Special Page
Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza is pleased to present the solo exhibition To Sea of Time - TOHOKU by Tatsuo Miyajima.
Akio Nagasawa Gallery has been producing and selling a series of prints as part of its fundraising initiative in support of Miyajima’s Sea of Time - TOHOKU Project. (The link to the special page is available HERE.)
The Sea of Time - TOHOKU Project is a collaborative art project created with 3,000 participants, dedicated to honoring the victims of the Great East Japan Earthquake, preserving its memory, and envisioning a shared future.
This exhibition showcases the unique work Life Face for Sea of Time - TOHOKU, created specifically for the project.
The piece is a silkscreen work in which countless different sequences of numbers emerge from the same numerical “plates,” capturing the fleeting, momentary nature of time.
Five different plates—each varying in the quantity and arrangement of numbers—generate endless variations through reordering and recombination.
Fundraising prints created for the project will also be on view in our Viewing Room.
We look forward to welcoming you to the exhibition.
*All images on this page are for reference only and may differ from the actual works exhibited.
Artist
Tatsuo MIYAJIMA
宮島達男
Born in Tokyo in 1957. Completed postgraduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1986. Since his debut in Aperto ’88 at the Venice Biennale, he has been recognized as one of Japan’s foremost contemporary artists and has exhibited widely in Japan and internationally.
He represented Japan at the Venice Biennale in 1999 and has held major solo exhibitions at leading institutions including Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (1990), Hayward Gallery, London (1997), Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2000), Art Sonje Center, Seoul (2002), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma (2004), Art Tower Mito (2008), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (2016). His works are held in the collections of Tate, London; Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo; among others. He has also realized large-scale public art commissions such as for TV Asahi at Roppongi Hills, Benesse Art Site Naoshima, Tokyo Opera City, and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul.
Miyajima is best known for his LED counter works, based on three key concepts: Keep Changing, Connect with Everything, Continue Forever. The counters, each blinking at different speeds and never displaying zero, evoke the continuity, eternity, and interconnectedness of time and human life.
He is the founder of the Revive Time: Kaki Tree Project, which propagates seedlings from a persimmon tree that survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki and plants them worldwide. More recently, he has been engaged in the Sea of Time – TOHOKU project, which seeks to carry forward the memories of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake while envisioning a new future for the Tohoku region.
Miyajima’s solo exhibition is currently on view at the Asia University Museum of Modern Art, Taichung, Taiwan, through May 2026.