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Idea Drawing for Sea of Time-TOHOKU

Tatsuo MIYAJIMA

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This is the initial idea drawing for Sea of Time – TOHOKU, a project conceived in the wake of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and envisioned to be created with 3,000 participants.

Although no location or workshops had yet been determined at the time, Miyajima was driven by a strong desire to take action as an artist—an effort to hold himself accountable for feeling powerless in the immediate aftermath of the disaster.

Year
2025
Medium
Archival Pigment Print, Silkscreen on paper
Sheet Size
546 x 790 mm
Editions
35

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.

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