Artist | AATM Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2020

[Introduction of exhibited works (25 works)]

*Some of the work photos differ from the exhibited works.
*The name of the university at the time of graduation/completion in March 2020 is specified.

*Note: Not all of the artwork pictured was exhibiting at the AATM 2020
*Note: Names of academic institutions are given as of March 2020 when the
artists completed their coursework for graduation.

*Exhibition contents and exhibition dates are subject to change without notice.

Intraoperative Democracy/Initiation Ceremony
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01Aoyama Yume　
Yume Aoyama
Tohoku University of Art and Design
Tohoku University of Art & DesignMarunouchi Award (Audience Award)

Mixing the surface reality with the emotions and speculations that linger behind it, the absurd everyday life and its strange beauty are reconstructed through the accumulation of memories, expressing an unknown nostalgia.

Attempt to express the unknown nostalgia. Reconstruct the unfair daily life, and unusual beauty by accumulating memories, cohabiting thoughts, and feelings, that moving in the back of the surface of reality.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Do you think I'm human? ／Do you think I'm a human?
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02Katsumi Asano　
Katsumi Asano
Nagoya University of Arts
Nagoya University Of Arts

What is a human? Explore the identity of humans through this world made of energy and AI robots that approach humans.

What is human? Tries to find the identity of humans through the world, based on energy, and the robots with Artificial Intelligence nearing to real humans.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
The Island of Stone Money and My Sculpture
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03KenichiIshiguro　
Kenichi Ishiguro
Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School
Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School

Working with minerals and other materials that symbolize eras and regions, he explores the possibilities of sculpture. Attempts to derive various relationships by connecting different cultures and histories.

Investigate the potential of sculpture by handling materials like minerals that symbolize the ages and the region. Try to derive diverse relationships by connecting the different cultures and histories.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
I and You (“Apparently there's this kind of songbird that thinks it dies every time the sun goes down. In the morning, when it wakes up, it's totally shocked to still be alive-so it sings this really beautiful song.”)
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04Ikuka Tottori　
Fumika Tsuchitori
Kyoto University of Arts Graduate School
Kyoto University of the Arts Graduate School

Because we are separate bodies, we are moved by the fact that we can share each other, and we can hug each other. I express that hope in my paintings.

Paint the hope, such as the amazement when we share and hug each other because we have separate bodies.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Scenery from inside the bus
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05YuhaYamaguchi　
Yuiha Yamaguchi
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate SchoolReiichi Noguchi Prize

This is the view from inside the bus I usually use to commute to school. It was raining.

The usual senior from the bus to the school, it was raining.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Kairei
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06Nobuya Matsui　
Nobuya Matsui
Musashino Art University
Musashino Art UniversityEriko Kimura Award

As I continued to draw, something I didn't understand stood in front of me that shook my heart.

When you keep drawing, and you realize that something makes your heart tremble standing right before you.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Here#2 / Here#2
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07Kanako Hiramatsu　
Kanako Hiramatsu
Kyoto University of Arts
Kyoto University of the Arts

He physically reacts to things that occur in his life and creates forms before they can be put into words. Pick up things one by one, put them down, and pick them up again.

Physically respond against something that happens in our lives before pronounce it verbally. Pick up the thing one by one, put it down and pick up again.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
100,000
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08Ayami Nagata　
Ayami Nagata
Kyoto University of Arts
Kyoto University of the Arts

Wrap small grains one by one on a huge flat surface and tie them with thread. I repeated this for half a year.

Repeating the same action for half a year, put a small piece on a flat surface and wrap up one by one, then tie-up with a string.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
I ate hay
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09Hayao Ito　
Hayate Ito
Tokyo Polytechnic University
Tokyo Polytechnic University

This work uses John F. Byrne's book ``Silent Years'' as a foreshadowing, and attempts to create an autobiography written in code.

This art piece was an attempt to create my encrypted memoir using the work "Silent Years" by John F. Byrne as a presage.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
The things we hold and keep
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10Okoshi Maruka　
Madoka Okoshi
Akita Public Art University
Akita University of Art

Exploring the sense of reality that humans are about to lose. We look at what is being lost with the development of media and the times from the perspectives of individuals with media and society.

Investigate the reality that humans are losing. Looking at something fading away with the development of media and the time from the individual and the society that have media.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Note/a note
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11Yoko Kida　
Yoko Kida
Kyoto City University of Arts
Kyoto City University of ArtsAkira Tatebatake Award/Arata Hasegawa Award

I read some past news. Then, I created the words I came up with out of china clay, fired them, and stored them.

Create a word out of porcelain clay that popped up in mind when reading an old newspaper, then bake it to preserve the word.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Oil Painting in history--Freedom
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12Ning Xu　
Kyo Nei
Tama Art University Graduate School
Tama Art University Graduate SchoolGrand Prix

He continues to take on the challenge of creating innovative paintings that allow him to share emotion, joy, and inspiration with many people, transcending the limitations of time and geography.

Challenges to create innovative paintings that could share excitement, pleasure, and inspiration with plenty of people without the limitation of regions and time differences.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
cannot see the forest for the trees
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13Kin Maki　
Kim Maki
Musashino Art University Graduate School
Musashino Art University Graduate School

He creates works that combine his interpretation of paintings with discoveries from his daily life. There are things surrounding what you see that you cannot see at the same time.

Combine the interpretation of the picture and the discovery made in our lives. There is something you don't realize is coexisting around what you see.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Posthumous manuscript/manuscript
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14Hayashi Isozaki　
Hayato Isozaki
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate SchoolShigeo Goto Award

I create works that describe my own views on life and death.

Keep striving to describe my opinion on life and death.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Container/Container
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15Zhang Jingween　
Chang Ching-Wen
Tama Art University Graduate School
Tama Art University Graduate School

I focus on the daily lives of people living in cities, and create works with the theme of "silent landscapes." I would like to depict human emotions such as loneliness, anxiety, and memories in urban life.

I am focusing on the daily lives of people living in cities and working under the theme of "silent scenery." Aiming to descript the feeling in a city life such as loneliness, anxiety, and memories.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
K.K.
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16Kou Taniguchi　
Akira Taniguchi
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate SchoolBLUE MOON Award

I draw pictures with an emphasis on tranquil emotions. What I am aiming for is quiet beauty.

I cherish the feeling of tranquility while painting. I aim to embody the serene beauty.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Turku
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17Reika Takebayashi　
Reika Takebayashi
Kyoto University of Arts
Kyoto University of the Arts

I'm thinking about the primordial story of production and the story that emerges when it stands up and comes together with the structure.

Try to think about the story that emerges when the structure stands with the initial story of the artwork.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Nine-Cats
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18Sa Bunti　
Wenting Zha
Joshibi University of Art and Design Graduate School
Josubi University of Art and Design Graduate School

A new divine beast was created by turning the cat's head upside down and combining it with a dragon, which has a good meaning in traditional Chinese culture.

Create a new divine creature through blending the upside-down cat head and traditional Chinese dragon, which has the meaning of good luck.

Exhibition Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / VENUE : Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Curious Furniture
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19Nasai Kondo　
Nanase Kondo
Tohoku University of Art and Design
Tohoku University of Art & DesignFrench Embassy Award

Old and boring things die. I felt an energy that rebelled against functionalism from old Furniture that had been excluded from a society that sought rationality.

The old furniture, antiques, and obsolete objects that eliminated from the utilitarian society conveys resisting energy against functionalism.

Exhibition Venue: Shin-Marunouchi Bldg. / VENUE :Shin-Marunouchi Bldg.
Tulip's gaze, call the ghost
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20Umino Ishii　
Amane Ishii
Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School
Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School

His interior paintings aim to create closed-off, fantasy-like spaces, and his paintings-within-paintings depict the possibility of entering other times and spaces.

Paint the interior scene paintings to seek isolated and fantastical regions. Paint a painting inside panting to find the possibility to depict the other times and spaces.

Exhibition Venue: Shin-Marunouchi Bldg. / VENUE :Shin-Marunouchi Bldg.
Momen no Handkerchief
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21Nobuto Okawara　
Nobuto Okawahara
Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School
Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate SchoolYusaku Imamura Award

I am creating a piece about the will to remain stable (ganbari).

Investigate the will power (endeavor) of stabilizing.

Exhibition Venue: Shin-Marunouchi Bldg. / VENUE :Shin-Marunouchi Bldg.
Little anniversary
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22Yoo Sora　
Yu Sora
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School

You may suddenly lose your daily life due to a disaster or accident. Every day I live, I think about the importance of the little things.

One could suddenly lose his daily life by a natural disaster or an accident. Ponder about the significance of everyday lives and trivial days.

Exhibition Venue: Shin-Tokyo Bldg. / VENUE :Shin-Tokyo Bldg.
Probable origin
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23Sho Tsuchida　
Sho Tsuchida
Tohoku University of Art and Design
Tohoku University of Art & DesignTomio Koyama Award

Human activities and relationships with the uncontrollable nature are always unstable and appear violently as a contrast. Illuminating the local landscape into the urban sky.

The relationship between uncontrollable nature and the everyday life of humans sometimes violently appears as a powerful contrast. Cast a picture of rural areas onto the sky of cities.

Exhibition Venue: Kokusai Bldg. / VENUE : Kokusai Bldg.
nayamibito/nayamibito
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24Saki Iwamori　
Saki Iwamori
Tokyo Zokei University
Tokyo Zokei UniversityAATM Mitsubishi Estate Award

It represents a person in your memory. The memories I scooped up from the ocean floor may contain ``something that all humans have in common.''

Depict a person in my memory. scoop up an image from the bosom of my recollection might contain "something that everyone mutually has."

Exhibition Venue: Otemachi Nakadori / VENUE: Otemachi Nakadori
red/red
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25Risa Tsunekawa　
Risa Tsunekawa
Musashino Art University
Musashino Art University

In response to the idea of carving the stone as if it were being rubbed, I took advantage of the properties of the material to create a lump with a raw, fleshy feel. Form of human body expression.

A form of express the human body. Create an art piece that visceral and bodily through make a balance between the characteristic of the stone and try to curb the temptation to sculpt rubbing like the stone.

Exhibition Venue: Otemachi Nakadori / VENUE: Otemachi Nakadori