AOYAMA

Continue Forever

Tatsuo MIYAJIMA

6/24 - 8/28/2021
*We will be temporarily closed on July 24.

GALLERY HOURS | Thu.–Sat. 11:00–13:00, 14:00–19:00
CLOSED | Sun–Wed., National Holidays

SUMMER HOLIDAYS | August 12–14, 2021

*As a consequence of the new declaration of emergency, the exhibition will be extended.

Photo by Nobutada Omote

Tatsuo Miyajima is a conceptual artist who is internationally renowned for his sculptural installations incorporating digital counters and based on three key concepts: “Keep Changing,” “Connect with Everything” and “Continue Forever.”

Shown at the “Continue Forever” exhibition at Akio Nagasawa Gallery Aoyama, the centerpiece here is a set of new drawings revolving around Miyajima’s own hand-written numbers, transformed into a digital font.

The exhibition “Keep Changing” is also concurrently shown at Akio Nagasawa Gallery Ginza. See more information from here.

The items on display at these two exhibitions can be understood as indicating a new frontier in Miyajima’s work, and in this sense, they are certainly opportunities that are not to be missed.

Artist

Born 1957, Tokyo. Lives and works Ibaraki, Japan.
Three guiding principles represent the foundation of Miyajima’s art, which he outlines as keep changing, connect with everything, and continue forever. ‘A constant is the fact that we are always changing’, he observes. ‘In Western thought, permanency refers to a sense of constancy, without change. In Eastern and Buddhist philosophy, change is natural and consistently happening’. Explaining the importance of connection, he expands: ‘As humans and living beings, we cannot and do not exist independently. We are only able to live within relationships in this world.’ The third principle – expressed through the perpetual cycle of birth, death and regeneration – refers back to the first two, for ‘that is the structure of life and of truth’.