KOTARO NUKAGA to participate in 'KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2025'
KOTARO NUKAGA is pleased to announce our participation in ‘KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2025’, Japan’s only art fair dedicated to crafts held in Hyatt Centric Kanazawa, Kanazawa, Japan from November 28 to 30.
KOTARO NUKAGA will present works by four artists: Mariko Kobayashi, Nanami Inoue, Yohei Chimura and Teppei Miyake.
Mariko Kobayashi employs textile-based methodologies, weaving together diverse techniques and materials to conjure a singular world through the layered interplay of color and form. The plants and animals that appear—evoking the relationship between nature and humankind—embody the many interconnections that structure our reality.
Inoue’s practice explores a distinctive approach to painting that seeks to eliminate the artist’s subjectivity through repetitive gestures such as drawing lines, embroidering, and sewing beads. Her works focus not on depicting something specific, but on the act of creation itself—producing paintings that “depict nothing, yet something.” Freed from symbolic meaning, her paintings act as “shifters,” gaining meaning only in context and suggesting a vision of transient universality.
Chimura’s series The Experiment on the Origin explores themes of “herald” and “origin” through forms born from molten glass and metal interacting with natural forces like gravity. Both materials influence each other. Rejecting hierarchy between media, Chimura treats glass and metal equally, reflecting his background in both fields. This philosophy enables seamless fusion, emphasizing balance and elemental transformation in his work.
Teppei Miyake explores how existence and absence can be made perceptible, excavating geological strata to bring buried histories back into focus. The sand he uses in his works is quarried in Chiba, a region that also supplies raw materials for the concrete used to reclaim land around the Tokyo metropolitan area. Encountering his works, viewers are invited to sense a cycle of time: memories of once-abundant seas, and the recognition that even the concrete beneath our feet will eventually weather and return to the earth’s layers.
Additionally, at the artist talk to be held on November 29, Yohei Chimura will take the stage to share episodes related to the exhibited works and their creation.
We look forward to welcoming you at the venue.
【EXHIBITION DETAILS】
KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2025
Venue: Hyatt Centric Kanazawa 2, 4, 5F（1-5-2, Hirooka, Kanazawa, Ishikawa, JAPAN）
Period:
VIP Day （by Invitation only）
November 28, 13:00 – 19:00
Public Days
November 29, 11:00 – 19:00（Around 14:40, Yohei Chimura will participate Artist Talks）
30, 11:00 – 18:00
Artists:
Mariko Kobayashi
Nanami Inoue
Yohei Chimura
Teppei Miyake
Booth No: 515
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