MADARA MANJI (1988-)
Madara Manji combines various metals to create colorful patterns with a technique known as ‘Mokumegane’ (lit. wood grain metal). Different metals do not naturally mix when in a solid state, but Madara uses incredible strength to hammer the metals into each other. Finally the mixed metal is stretched and ‘shaved’ to reveal the pattern. For the artist, this process of mixing matter that naturally should not do so also represents the complex mix of feelings that a person may experience at the same time. Madara’s “Uncovered Cube” works show the impossible mixture of emotions like love and hate. On the other hand, his series of mainly blank works represent a closed soul, which does not display emotion.
1988 Born in Tokyo
Solo Exhibition
2020 MASS (Whitestone Ginza New Gallery/Tokyo)
2020 ACCUMULATION (Whitestone Gallery/Taipei)
2020 VORTEX (KARUIZAWA NEW ART MUSEUM/Karuizawa)
2017 Antagonism and Transcendence (KARUIZAWA NEW ART MUSEUM/Karuizawa)
Group Exhibition
2020 Allelopathy in Wasteland (Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery/Tokyo)
2019 Neo-Materialism (Whitestone Ginza New Gallery/Tokyo)
2018 HEBIME MADARA MANJI "ARCHETYPE" (KARUIZAWA NEW ART MUSEUM/Karuizawa)
2017 INTERMIXTURE (Whitestone Gallery Hong Kong Hollywood Road/Hong Kong)
2011 Group Exhibition(Factory Kyoto/Kyoto）
Art Fair
2020 art TNZ (YOD Gallery)
2020 AFT Art Hunting (YOD Gallery)
2019 KUNST RAI 2019 (YOD Gallery)
2018 VOLTA 14 (YOD Gallery)
2017 ART FAIR ASIA FUKUOKA 2017 (Whitestone Gallery KARUIZAWA)
2017 ART NAGOYA (Whitestone Gallery KARUIZAWA)
2012 ULTRA 005 (Factory Kyoto)
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