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.
Manami Higashi
[handling artist]
For my works, the rotation expresses the immortality,
dimension and time flow, The 3-dimensional rotation of the character resembles the transmigration of the soul in the Buddhism believe,
It’s representing birth and death in the circle of life in the same way the figurine is rotating.
The motifs are characters from Japanese animation and comics.
The act of painting and letting the animation figurine rotate expresses the flow of time and the many different views of rotation.
This figurine as a symbol of today’s society is combined with the classic element of oil painting.
Today’s motif and the classic way of painting result in exactly the same time flow as the motif itself.
1988 Born in Kanagawa, Japan
2011 MA, Joshibi University of Art And Design, Kanagawa, Japan
2013 BA, Joshibi University of Art And Design, Kanagawa, Japan
Exhibitions
2018
ART OSAKA 2018 / HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA
REUNITE / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
2016
the art fair +plus-ultra 2016 / Spiral Garden
Future Exhibition / Gallery Nichido
Collaboration Project / RISE GALLERY and MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
8 Japanese Women Artists / Bernarducci Meisel Gallery
2015
Collaboration Project / RISE GALLERY and MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
the 100-gou Exhibition / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
◎ / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY
ASIA WEEK NEW YORK 2015 / Bernarducci Meisel Gallery
2014
Mai Takayama・Manami Higashi / M50 JOSHIBI ART GALLERY, Shanghai
KOH−JUTSU depart remix vol.2 / TAKASHIMAYA Nihombashi
HYOH-BYOH KOH-JUTSU chapter 5 / Spiral Garden
CHAOS*LOUNGE vol.6 / billiken gallery
2013
CHAOS*LOUNGE vol.5 / billiken gallery
Moeglichkeit 4 / Roentgenwerke AG
Little Akihabara Monument / Gallery midori-so
Awards
2014
Tokyo Wonder Wall
2013
Fukuzawa Ichiro Award