ABOUT
From May 8 (Wed) to May 25 (Sat), 2019, we are holding the exhibition "Connection" by Masumi Aono, a vigorous Buddhist statue restorer and sculptor.
Aono's fine and reliable woodworking techniques, as well as his ongoing questioning of "connection" with "people" that he feels and ponders through his work, are the basis of the "Tsunagari" exhibition.
In this exhibition, Aono's woodworking works express such questions and inquisitiveness.
Please come and see his works with bird motifs that shine with familiarity and softness.
Aono's fine and reliable woodworking techniques, as well as his ongoing questioning of "connection" with "people" that he feels and ponders through his work, are the basis of the "Tsunagari" exhibition.
In this exhibition, Aono's woodworking works express such questions and inquisitiveness.
Please come and see his works with bird motifs that shine with familiarity and softness.
■Writer's message
People live in search of "connection".
This is because they forget that they are alone from birth to death,
It is because we can forget that we are alone from birth to death and feel warmth.
I have been creating my work while questioning the essence of "connection".
What I am beginning to see is that the gaze at one's own loneliness is the beginning of the path to connection.
In this exhibition, I will show wood sculptures created with this thought in mind.
Please come and see them.
Masumi Aono
People live in search of "connection".
This is because they forget that they are alone from birth to death,
It is because we can forget that we are alone from birth to death and feel warmth.
I have been creating my work while questioning the essence of "connection".
What I am beginning to see is that the gaze at one's own loneliness is the beginning of the path to connection.
In this exhibition, I will show wood sculptures created with this thought in mind.
Please come and see them.
Masumi Aono
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Completed Graduate School of Tokyo University of the Arts
2017 Graduated from College of Art, Nihon University
2011 Dropped out
of Aichi University of the Arts 1988 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture
2019 Springboard 2019/(Ueno Station)
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition/(Tokyo University of the Arts)
2018 Masumi Aono Exhibition / (galleryUG)
2017 868788 Exhibition / (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo)
Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2017 / (Shin Marunouchi Building 3F Atrium)
Nihon University College of Art Joint Graduation Exhibition / (Nihon University College of Art Gallery Building)
Tokyo Five Art University Joint Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition / (National Art Center, Tokyo)
2016 Kitano Continuing Education Promotion Society Sculpture Scholarship Winners Exhibition / (A&D Gallery)
13th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition / (Oita)
Creartre / (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo)
2015 Solo Exhibition "Distant Memory"/(A&D Gallery)
2014 Nishiaizu Art Village Residence Workshop/(Nishiaizu)
The 12th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition/(Oita)
2013 Tokay Gecko Award/(Fukuoka)
Park Group Exhibition/(Taipei)
2012 Tugboat Award/(Setagaya Manufacturing School)
2010 Kodaira Art Site/(Musashino Art University)
2017 Graduated from College of Art, Nihon University
2011 Dropped out
of Aichi University of the Arts 1988 Born in Ibaraki Prefecture
2019 Springboard 2019/(Ueno Station)
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition/(Tokyo University of the Arts)
2018 Masumi Aono Exhibition / (galleryUG)
2017 868788 Exhibition / (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo)
Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2017 / (Shin Marunouchi Building 3F Atrium)
Nihon University College of Art Joint Graduation Exhibition / (Nihon University College of Art Gallery Building)
Tokyo Five Art University Joint Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition / (National Art Center, Tokyo)
2016 Kitano Continuing Education Promotion Society Sculpture Scholarship Winners Exhibition / (A&D Gallery)
13th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition / (Oita)
Creartre / (The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo)
2015 Solo Exhibition "Distant Memory"/(A&D Gallery)
2014 Nishiaizu Art Village Residence Workshop/(Nishiaizu)
The 12th Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition/(Oita)
2013 Tokay Gecko Award/(Fukuoka)
Park Group Exhibition/(Taipei)
2012 Tugboat Award/(Setagaya Manufacturing School)
2010 Kodaira Art Site/(Musashino Art University)