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This summer, the 30 meter open air atrium at Park Hotel Tokyo will turn into a “well”!?
-At the Bottom of a Well- Aki Narita x Yoko Naito Art Exhibition will be held as the 25th exhibition of ART colours which celebrates the four seasons of Japan with arts. This is a collaboration exhibition by two artists who have gained popularity through the Park Hotel Tokyo’s Artist in Hotel Project, where they each created a hotel room named after a fish, which are “Geisha Goldfish” and “Carp.”
Wells probably exist, or have existed, everywhere in the world. For human beings, who are not able to survive without water, wells are a primitive and fundamental blessing from God. From ancient times, it has been sanctified and considered to be the entrance to other worlds that connect to the underworld, and as a forbidden place that must not be infringed upon. Many of you probably know of ghost stories related to wells here in Japan as well. Also, it is said that there have been actual cases where carps were released as guardian angels.
Aki Narita is an artist with a style as if there is fierce passion dwelling within deeply settled latent memories, and Yoko Naito draws the internal impulse that wells up in search of truth using a pragmatic and free technique. The artworks of these two contrasting female artists will turn the hotel’s atrium on the 25th floor into a well in the sky. At night, the projection mapping video will flow through the entire walls, and the works of the two artists will swim freely in the simulated well space. In this space, where it is like a well filled with cool water, please enjoy a moment forgetting about the sweltering summer heat.
Period: June 11 (Mon.) – September 2 (Sun.) , 2018
Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: 25F / 31F
Admission : Free
[Cooperated with]Shinobazu Gallery 、HAGURODO
[Video Produced by] antymark annex
[Produced by] creative unit moon by KON-KON
Price: 1,200 JPY (2:30-10:00 p.m.)
* Tax and service charge included
Price: 1,600 JPY
* Tax and service charge included
* Served as on of desserts in Afternoon Tea with Wagashi
“Even now, I live at the bottom of a burning well. Fire trucks will not come to the bottom and there are no exits. I will continue to draw forever, just staying at the bottom, longing for a shocking, unexpected happiness that will someday ring to the Realm of the Seventh Sense.”
Born 1966 in Aomori Prefecture. From when she was very small, using cartoons and picture books as models, she started painting. Coming up to Tokyo from Aomori, when she was about 20, she started out as an artist after meeting the art critic Yoshie Yoshida and others. Since her twenties, she often interacted with great masters like Eikoh Hosoe, Yütokutaishi Akiyama, Kei Hiraga and Tetsumi Kudo, and raised the standard of art. Currently, she displays her works in private exhibitions, special exhibitions, and illustrations.
“It is said that there are proverbs related to wells from all over the world from various ages. For example, ‘The frog in the well knows nothing of the great ocean’, ‘Truth lies at the bottom of a well’, and so on. There are indeed limits to what you can see, and truth is exceedingly far away. However, at the same time, these lessons that people have been familiar with from long ago, tells us that people have continue to direct their attention toward the extremely magnificent and the unknown, to the complex pulse = the underground water veins. Perhaps our eyes are constantly directed towards the ‘bottom of the well.'”
Born 1985 in Chigasaki city, Kanagawa Prefecture. Having left high school before graduation, became an autodidact and started painting with a variety of techniques from oil painting, Nihonga (Japanese painting), ink drawing to printmaking. Holds private exhibitions at Tokyo galleries such as Hagurodo and TOKYO YAESU T-BOX, and also exhibits widely in group projects, and at many national and international art fairs.
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