MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY was launched in January 2013. Our mission is to introduce and encourage emerging talents that we felt in love with. We explore artists and their work across various media that meet our two criteria; creativity and independence.
The Art of Memory, or Ars Memoriae, is found in ancient Greek literature, and particularly developed in medieval Europe.
One of these methods is called “The Method of Loci”. The user of this technique draws a real or imaginary house, city or palace inside their head which contains a hundred rooms and quadrates to place symbols and images within it, partly on the floor and partly on the four walls.
These represented images help the user of this technique to enhance and recall their memories.
I aspire to deepen the consideration of the embodiment of memory in art which can be seen in a society before disenchantment through ars memoriae and oral literature.
Artist HP:http://www.hinamaekawa.com
1990 Born in Chiba, Japan
EDUCATION :
2014 BFA,Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Design
2016 MFA,Tokyo University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts
Currently underway of studying in Doctor’s Program, Department of Fine Arts at Tokyo University of the Arts
Sep. 2018 (expected) – exchange student in MFA at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
EXHIBITION
2018
Hommage / Sansiao Gallery Hong Kong
O+ Exhibition / SHINSEIDO HATANAKA
2017
MEMENTO / Sansiao Gallery Hong Kong
Handpicked artists / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
Special Edition 2007 / Rise Gallery
ShinPA2017 / Obuse Museum・Nakajima Chinami Hall
Ueno no Mori Exhibition / Hotel New Otani Tokyo
2016
L’ESPOIR Exhibition / Ginza Surugadai Gallery
Oni no Hashi・little by little / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
Shell Art Award 2016 / The National Art Center, Tokyo
MITSUKOSHI × TUA / MITSUKOSHI Department Store Nihombashi in Tokyo
nine colors X / SEIBU Department Store Shibuya in Tokyo
Japanese Women Artists / Bernarducci Meisel Gallery, New York
O+ Exhibition / SHINSEIDO HATANAKA
2015
O+ Exhibition / SHINSEIDO HATANAKA
Next Art Award / The Asahi Shimbun Company-Tsukiji in Tokyo・Matsuya Department Store-Ginza in Tokyo
nine colors IX / SEIBU Department Store Shibuya in Tokyo
2014
Young Artist Exhibition III selected by Yamamoto Fuyuhiko / Gallery Echo-ann
nine colors VIII / SEIBU Department Store Shibuya and Ikebukuro in Tokyo
2013
WONDER SEEDS 2013 / Tokyo Wonder Site
nine colors VII / SEIBU Department Store Shibuya and Ikebukuro in Tokyo
2012
Shibuya Style vol.6 / SEIBU Department Store Shibuya in Tokyo
ULTRA005 / SPIRAL
AWARD
2016
Selected for Shell Art Award
2015
Selected for Next Art Award
2013
Selected for WONDER SEEDS