M11
Tokyo Midtown
Yuta Niwa
DESIGN & ART WALL #TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD
- [Date]
- 9/27 - End date undecided
- [Place]
- Tokyo Midtown Plaza, 1st Floor
- [Participation fee]
- Free
The Grand Prize-winning artwork by Yuta Niwa from the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2021 the temporary fences Art Competition will be featured on the temporary enclosure at Tokyo Midtown.
-Artist's Comment-
This artwork is a reconstruction based on an Emakimono (picture scroll) created in 2022.
It features the Corona Yokai “Coronamazu” and the protective deity “Shoki” leading the team of epidemics and the crowd resisting them.
Various items, including playground equipment exhibited when it won the Grand Prize at the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2021, are painted. Please enjoy.
*The TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD, now in its 17th year, is a competition held in two categories – design and art – aiming to meet, support, and collaborate with talented designers and artists.
The competition centers on the concept of Tokyo Midtown as a metropolis that cultivates and brings together “JAPAN VALUE” (contemporary Japanese values, sensibility, and talent) to share with the world.
-Artist's Comment-
This artwork is a reconstruction based on an Emakimono (picture scroll) created in 2022.
It features the Corona Yokai “Coronamazu” and the protective deity “Shoki” leading the team of epidemics and the crowd resisting them.
Various items, including playground equipment exhibited when it won the Grand Prize at the TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2021, are painted. Please enjoy.
*The TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD, now in its 17th year, is a competition held in two categories – design and art – aiming to meet, support, and collaborate with talented designers and artists.
The competition centers on the concept of Tokyo Midtown as a metropolis that cultivates and brings together “JAPAN VALUE” (contemporary Japanese values, sensibility, and talent) to share with the world.
ARTISTS
Yuta Niwa
Yuta Niwa creates works that focus on the history of invisible calamities and irresistible forces being represented as something black, using the context, techniques, and materials of Japanese painting. After graduating from the Painting Department of Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School in 2019, Niwa studied abroad in Beijing. Currently, he is living and creating at Komyo-in, a temple of Tofuku-ji. Recent major exhibitions include Art Collaboration Kyoto “Golden Fight of Gods”, “Chimera Epidemic Chronicle”, TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2021,“Namazu no Komyo”, Yanbaru Art Festival Yamahara Chishin and Art Award Marunouchi 2019.