三越コンテンポラリーギャラリーでは初となる、三輪華子氏の個展を開催いたします。

三輪華子氏は自然から受けるインスピレーションを源泉に、陶土を用いた立体作品を制作しています。茶道の精神性と歴史的な西洋絵画との遭遇、陶芸の伝統技法と新しいテクノロジーなど、多彩な表現を織りまぜたインスタレーションやオブジェを国内外で発表し、作家としての評価を着実に獲得してきました。

今展ではたおやかな蓮華と葉をモチーフにした陶のインスタレーション「Eternity」シリーズや蓮華の蕾を象った大作「復活」、Teahouse３「妙壽庵」などを展観し、現代的な感性で新たなアートシーンを切り拓きます。三輪華子の織りなす神秘の森を、ぜひご高覧くださいませ。

日本橋三越本店

We are delighted to announce Hanako Miwa’s first solo exhibition to be held at Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery.

Based on the inspiration she receives from nature, Hanako Miwa uses clay to create sculptural ceramic works. Combining the spirituality of the tea ceremony with a masterpiece of Western painting and traditional ceramic techniques with modern technology, her varied installations and objets d’art have been widely shown both in Japan and abroad, cementing her reputation as an artist.

This exhibition will present the Eternity series, a ceramic installation that uses the delicate, graceful flowers and leaves of the lotus plant as its motif, Resurrection, a large-scale work depicting giant lotus buds, and her Teahouse 3 ‘Myoju-an.’ These works demonstrate her contemporary aesthetics and represent a new development in the art scene.  We hope that you will come and experience firsthand the mystical forest envisioned by Hanako Miwa.

Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store

倒木に種子が落ちて新たな生命が育まれます。森は生と死の循環で出来た地上の楽園。「復活」はそこに咲く幻の花を土で表現致しました。

森の中にはTeahouse 3「妙壽庵」が佇んでいます。レオナルド・ダ・ヴィンチ晩年の住まいクロ・リュセ城を訪れた後、ルーヴル美術館にてダ・ヴィンチのある絵画を目にしたことがTeahouse 3 を作るきっかけとなりました。手の指と野性性をモチーフに闇の中で光を感じる一畳半の空間は三輪華子とnSTUDIOとの共同制作です。

「Eternity 」は昨年、デンマーク フーア島のFur Museumにて展示致しました。蓮は今から約一億年前に地球上に存在し、生命力の強さと豊穣を象徴しています。瞬間、瞬間、全てのものは変化しているように見えますが、人間の時間を超えた永遠の時も存在します。明け方、蓮田を訪れると、朝露に濡れた無数の蓮の葉が芳香と共に光輝いていました。太古より続く生命の連鎖、植物エネルギーの流れ。その光景は私にとって永遠を表していました。

本展の実現に向けてご協力下さいました皆様に感謝致します。

三輪華子

Seeds drop on a fallen tree, giving birth to new life. The forest is a Paradise on Earth resulting from this cycle of life and death. In Resurrection I have expressed a vision of the imaginary flowers that bloom there through clay.

The Teahouse 3, Myoju-an, stands within the forest. The idea to create the Teahouse 3 came to me after visiting Le Château du Clos Lucé, where Leonardo da Vinci spent his later years, and then looking at one of his works in the Louvre Museum. Based on a motif of fingers and wildness, this diminutive space, the size of one-and-a-half tatami mats, allows the viewer to feel the presence of light within the darkness and was made by Hanako Miwa in collaboration with nSTUDIO.

I was pleased to present an installation of ceramic art works, entitled Eternity, at the Fur Museum in Denmark last year.

The lotus plant has existed since the days that dinosaurs roamed the Earth—approximately one hundred million years. The lotus is a symbol of vitality and fertility. Everything appears to change, moment by moment. Eternity is the succession of moments that transcends human perception of time. Visiting a lotus pond at daybreak, I see myriads of lotus leaves shining with the morning dew, their fragrance filling the air. The vitality and energy of these plants have continued through the ages since prehistoric times and to me, they embody eternity.

In closing, I would like to express my gratitude to everybody through whose support this exhibition was made possible.

Hanako Miwa