Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi (hereinafter referred to as AATM), which began in 2007, is held with the aim of discovering and nurturing young Artist, and will celebrate its 17th edition in 2023. We have held exhibitions of selected works from graduation works from major art universities and graduate schools across the country, and have introduced approximately 500 Artist at the past 17 AATMs.
The Window Gallery in Marunouchi will exhibit the works of Katsumi Asano, the Grand Prix winner of AATM2023, Wang Ting, winner of the Mitsubishi Estate Prize, and four Artist who have participated in past AATMs and continue to be active. ―from AATM'' will be held.
Through the works of young Artist, we will continue to encourage young Artist from Marunouchi.
We will continue to provide you with opportunities to spread your wings around the world.
Date and time: Fri January 12, 2024 to Sun, March 17, 2024 11:00-20:00 *18:00 on the final day
Venue: Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery
Exhibited works
[AATM2023 award winners]
Katsumi Asano
This world is filled with countless energies. Human beings are collections of energy, and even things that at first glance may be considered lifeless, such as light, the atmosphere, and even smartphones and buildings, are ultimately made up of energy that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
The world is created by this power, and sometimes resonates beyond dimensions, repeating changes and cycles. It is an infinite circle in which both the front and the back exist at the same time, and we can be said to be part of that cycle.
I call the collection of thick paint and wavy brushstrokes born from this inspiration ``energy techniques,'' and continue to create them. Energy that intersects and accumulates through paintbrushes and paints. It is leading me to the core of this world.
AATM2023 Grand Prix
He paints figures that seem to ooze out waves, and the paintings themselves transform to create spaces where mechanical energy itself emerges.
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1997. In 2020, graduated from Nagoya University of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Fine Arts, Western Painting 2 course, and in 2023, completed Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Research Department.
Main exhibitions: “Goodbye!/The Penultimate Truth” Nihonbashi Anarchy Cultural Center (2023), Solo exhibition “Energy that shakes the soul” myheirloom (Tokyo, 2023)
Ting Wang
Parts of primitive nature that can be controlled are carefully selected and introduced into cities, making them ``second nature.'' However, "second nature" still remains unstable. Consumerism seeks the precision and unity of matter, turning the original motherly earth into a mechanical earth, creating a ``false nature.'' They feel secure in the precision of artifacts and are accustomed to an industrialized existence. Visually, plastic plants are close to reality, but when you touch them, you realize that they are a collection of inorganic materials. They faithfully provide the illusion of false nature from a distance. Artificial objects so close to reality that they create a natural uncanny valley effect. It was only when I touched the strong, wild stems of the weeds growing in the wilderness that I suddenly realized that I had arrived at true primeval nature.
AATM2023 Mitsubishi Estate Award Winner
Her work focuses on plants, feminism, and ecological art, and she uses art to conduct research into the mutual influence of plant ecosystems and humans.
Born in 1997 in Anhui Province, China. Completed graduate school at Kyoto City University of Arts in 2023.
Main exhibitions: “Where is hito” (MEDIA-SHOP Gallery, Kyoto, 2022), “Kyoto Station Building Art Festival” (Kyoto Station Building, 2022), “Ikebukuro Art Gathering Public Exhibition IAG AWARDS 2023” (Tokyo Art Theater ) “Metasequoia Kyomachi Boli Art Fair” (2022)
AATM Alumni (Artist from AATM)
Shoichi Okumura
As you walk through the ``garden'', you will notice that ``Bonkei'' and ``Taihu stones'' are scattered here and there. These are small separate worlds set within the ``garden'', but the ``garden'' itself is a microcosm of a real or imagined paradise, and in this sense, it is nothing but a similarly condensed small separate world. This structure is depicted not only as a garden, but also in paintings such as Northern Song landscapes and mandalas, architecture such as Siheyuan and Tulou, and stories related to Taoyuanland such as Dream of the Red House, all of which have been described as ``concentrated''. It expresses ``a small other world'' = ``a nested paradise.''
Based on this "nested" structure, he depicts a modern paradise by combining the imaginary "tropical" and digitally homogenized objects.
AATM2015 Shu Uemura Award
AATM2017 Received Imamura Yusaku Award, French Embassy Award, Marunouchi Award (Audience Award)
Using Japanese painting materials, he creates gorgeous, utopian-like paintings that are rooted in traditional Chinese landscape paintings and mandala-like structures.
Born in 1989. In 2017, completed the Japanese painting research field at Tama Art University Graduate School of Painting.
Main exhibitions: Solo exhibition "-Fictional Travelers-" (Tokyo, 2021), Solo exhibition "Tropical Cosmo" (Kyoto, 2022), Solo exhibition "-Imaginary Tropical-" (Tokyo, 2022)
Akiko Hashimoto
I mainly create ``pictorial landscapes.''
It is a moment of contact and connection between the here and now and the distant place depicted, and it is about capturing the immeasurable distance that lies in between.
Furthermore, it is an attempt to transform the entire space into a single itinerary that visits two distant locations.
-About this work
In order to construct the room prepared for continuing walking along this itinerary, I created a spatial sketch of a fragmentary image of the room.
We continue to walk, enjoying the environment of the here and now, and responding to the path that appears on paper.
Transparent glass that blends into the landscape will serve as a guidepost.
This is your itinerary, and it can also be a way to mark the time and days of your life.
AATM2015 Exhibition
The detailed pencil drawings on paper are sometimes folded, taped to the wall, or incorporated into Furniture, creating a modest yet magnificent landscape.
Born in 1988. Completed graduate school at Musashino Art University in 2015.
Main exhibitions: "Inviting the Shadow" International Art Center Aomori (2022), "I saw it, it was yours." Gallery Koyanagi (Tokyo, 2021), "Ask him" Shiseido Gallery (Tokyo, 2022), "Yesterday's" story” Cite international des arts (Paris, 2018)
Shinichiro Koromo
He depicts everyday objects such as ancient tombs, clay clay figures, people, still life, and houses in spaces with rural landscapes such as mountains and fields. Through my paintings, I would like to show how we can face and view the times, situations, and landscapes within the flow of nature and time.
Something that is still there even after a long time has passed. Landscapes that accompany people's lives. The shape and color of accumulated things, time and atmosphere. I look at these things from various angles and draw them by walking and feeling them.
Exhibited at AATM2013, AATM2016
He freely paints in oil paintings the shapes excavated from the perspective of clothing, such as ancient tombs, clay clay figures, landscapes including people and fields.
Born in Gunma Prefecture in 1987. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University in 2013, majoring in painting. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2016, majoring in painting.
Main exhibitions: "curator's vol.4 Shinichiro Iro "Kofun, Mountain"" GALLERY TAGA 2 (Tokyo, 2023), solo exhibition "Lying Landscape" See Saw gallery + hibit (Aichi, 2023), "project N 75" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2019) “Go to the museum to find that scenery” Takasaki City Art Museum (2022)
Hinako Miyabayashi
I'm looking for the inevitable. A phenomenon that happens right in front of your eyes, an unexpectedly surprising moment. The leaves fall, wither and take shape. The letters in the letters that were sent cease to be words and appear as a piece of scenery. Even if you can't see it, there's definitely a logical necessity to it. Hair waving in the wind, hair wet from the shower water, children's hair soft and letting light through. I will never forget the two-ton roll of women's hair I saw at Auschwitz in Poland. Things that used to be commonplace change at a certain moment. It's something before we can recognize it in words, and while confirming the existence in front of us, we stand up, including those around us, and what looks like a presence becomes a painting. The branch that you can see now will disappear from the scenery in one step.
AATM2021 Satoshi Tatehata Award winner
He draws personal memories, letters, words, and other everyday scenes, and creates a pictorial space based on them. Born in Hokkaido in 1997. Graduated from Tama Art University, Faculty of Art, Department of Painting, Major in Oil Painting in 2021. In 2023, graduated from the Faculty of Visual Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts and received the Meister Schuller from Thilo Heinzmann. Currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in painting.
Main exhibitions: GALERIE BERND KUGLER (Innsbruck, 2023), “project N” Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2024), Gallery 38 (Tokyo, 2024)
If you are interested in exhibiting works, please contact info.aatm@gmail.com.
