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At the Park Hotel Tokyo, we welcome our guests with hospitality in the form of “arrangement”, one of Japan’s aesthetic values, expressed through the medium of art. As part of this initiative, we hold a series of art exhibitions, “ART colours”, representing the four seasons of Japan.
Winter 2022-Spring 2023 exhibition will be curated by gallery UG and Gallery Ishikawa. Artworks from the two galleries, closely following and working with the artists, will decorate the Atrium of Park Hotel Tokyo with a sense of the future.
In Japan, “shun (the best season)” is enjoyed through the terms “hashiri (beginning of the best season)”, “sakari (top of the best season)”, and “nagori (remains of the best season)”. This may be described as a Japanese sense of beauty, in which people accept and enjoy the coming winter, and while regretting the passing of winter, savor and enjoy the joys of the coming spring. “Hashiri” is also a time of longing and hoping for the next season, imagining that a prosperous future will come very soon. While experiencing the changing seasons, please enjoy artworks using various motifs, techniques, and materials, as if you were enjoying the “hashiri” of the seasons, imagining the bright and abundant “Colors of the Future” through the exhibition.
Period: November 14 (Mon.) 2022 – May 21 (Sun.), 2023
Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Atrium (25F)
Admission: Free
*The exhibiting artist Yumi Hosaka will create an “Artist Room” in which the entire guest room will be an artwork.
*Some artworks on exhibition will change between the winter and spring exhibition seasons.
[Curated by] gallery UG, Gallery Ishikawa
[Designed by] Design Studio PHT
[Video Produced by] antymark annex
[Organized by] Park Hotel Tokyo
[gallery UG] | Kazuko NEISHI | Nobuko NUMANO | Misako MAEGAKI | [Gallery Ishikawa] | Yumi HOSAKA | Shotaro MURAKAMI | Haruna ASANOI | AKIY | Mino WATABE | Une ASAI | Makiko TAKAHASHI | Atsushi ADACHI
| Afternoon Tea “Floral & Herbs” | |
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| Period | March 13 (Mon.) – May 21 (Sun.), 2023 |
| Restaurant | ART colours Dining 25F |
| Serving Time | 12:00 – 2:00 p.m. (Last Entry) |
| Price | JPY 6,000 per person *Tax and service charge included |
| *Advance reservation required 2 days in advance before 2:00 p.m. *2 hours time limit/*Reservations available from 1 person |
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| Inspire | Nobuko Numano “Field” |
| Sea Bream & Yuba steamed with Cherry Blossom | |
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| Period | March 14 (Tue.) – May 21 (Sun.), 2023 |
| Restaurant | Japanese restaurant Hanasanshou |
| Price | a la carte JPY3,000 Course JPY10,000 *Tax and service charge included |
| *Advance reservation up to 4 days before (a la carte & Kaiseki) | |
| Inspire | Shotaro Murakami “Anemone” |
| Following Wind | |
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| Period | March 13 (Mon.) – May 21 (Sun.), 2023 |
| Restaurant | ART colours Dining /Bar the society 25F |
| Price | Cocktail JPY2,000 Mocktail JPY1,500 *Tax and service charge included |
| Inspire | Mino Watabe “Wind Passing Through” |
Born in Wakayama Prefecture
Lives and works in Saitama Prefecture
After graduating from high school, joined an animation background company.
Afterwards, worked as a freelance animation background artist for TV, movies, commercials, etc.
Currently selling works through e-commerce sites and exhibitions nationwide.
■Awards
Kyoto Shimbun Award at the Postcard Collection 2019 (Be Kyoto)
Theme Award at the Tsukushi Award 2019
Special Jury Award at the Independent Tokyo 2020
Where we stand is in the middle of the past and the future.
We live in the middle world and beyond that future.
I have faith that the world will get better and
I do not want to be anxious.
I draw the things that light up the future, the things that show us the direction we are aiming to achieve.
Born in Tokyo, Japan
2018 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Design
2020 Completed Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Design, Drawing and Decoration Laboratory
Awarded the Metro Cultural Foundation Award at the 68th Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibition
Concept of Production
He creates vivid color surfaces with an accumulation of fine touches of colored pencil and focuses on still life paintings. He has been actively exhibiting his works in solo and group exhibitions, mainly in Tokyo.
1990 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2021 Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture
2014 M.F.A. in Sculpture, Tokyo University of the Arts
Exhibitions
2021 Solo Exhibition at Gallery FACE TO FACE / Tokyo
2020 Solo Exhibition at Yokohama Takashimaya / Yokohama
2019 Solo Exhibition at Gallery FACE TO FACE / Tokyo
2018 Solo Exhibition at Gallery FACE TO FACE / Tokyo
2017 Solo Exhibition at Nihonbashi Takashimaya Art Gallery X / Tokyo
Solo Exhibition at Gallery Gigi / Kanagawa
Born in Saitama Prefecture
2011 … Established a new business in the environmental field and dedicated to being the company president. At the same time, started to create artworks.
2020 … In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, began to share artworks on various social media sites, hoping that people worldwide will “discover new possibilities”. In order to convey this message, the theme “Cracks” came up.
2021 … Started to apply for prizes and sell artworks.
Concept of Production
As the metabolism of “destruction” and “creation” accelerates, the world is questioning the reason for the existence of “individuals”.
“When something disappears, something new is born.
The current situation we are facing is not only negative, but also bright for the birth of new possibilities.”
The “cracks” that I put in my works are the beginning of all things, and the trigger of infinite possibilities that each one of us can look through.
I believe my role is to create a new day for people to receive such possibilities.
Exhibitions
2021 Exhibited at “M.A.D.S. Exhibition” in Milan, Italy.
Exhibited at “Heart Art in KYOTO 2021 AIDS charity exhibition 2021” at KYOCERA Museum of Art and received the Excellence Award.
Participated in “The 5th Mahoroba Asuka Art Exhibition” and received the Chairman’s Art Award.
Born in Tokyo, Japan
2014 Graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course
2016 Completed Master’s program at Tama Art University Graduate School, Department of Painting, Oil Painting Course
Concept of Production
Nature creates curves, and humans create straight lines.
Straight lines do not exist in nature. By drawing from natural motifs, such as plants and the sea, and by drawing in straight lines, I create paintings that exist in the middle of contrasting positions, such as natural and artificial, organic and inorganic, and figurative and abstract.
■Awards
2022 Grand Prize at the 19th Art Gallery Home Call for Entries
2015 Shintaro Ishihara Jury Award at the Tokyo Wonder Wall Open Call 2015
Excellence Award at the TURNER AWARD 2014
2014 19th Fukuzawa Ichiro Award
■Exhibitions
2022 “Straight in nature” (Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo)
2021 “Fluctuation” (KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo)
“WAVE” (Shonan T-SITE / LIFE sea, Kanagawa)
2020 “Mino Watanabe Exhibition” (LIFE son, Tokyo)
2019 “FORM” (Gallery Momo projects, Tokyo)
PROJECT dnF Fukuzawa Ichiro Award-winning artist exhibition vol. 8 Mino Watanabe “Botanical garden” (FUKUZAWA Ichiro Memorial Museum, Tokyo, Japan)
2016 humanité lab vol. 56 Mino Watanabe Exhibition “Horizon” (Galerie Tokyo Humanité, Tokyo)
Born in Wakayama Prefecture
Started working as a graphic designer in 2013, and started working as an artist in 2021.
Once, while meditating, experienced a state of “selflessness”. Based on the sensations felt at that time, the scenery seen, and the experience, paints a mental image of how it felt afterwards.
Concept of Production
Since childhood, she has had a phenomenon in which undulating transparent objects appear when concentrating on something. Her desire to pursue the mysterious nature of that objects has led her to create works using “undulations” as a motif.
In particular, she uses “undulations” in her works to express her view of the world of meditation, as they often appear in her vision when meditating.
Awards
2021 Selected for ACT ART AWARD
2021 Selected for IAG AWARDS
2021 Independent Tokyo 2021
Juries’ Special Award Kazuo Noguchi (REIZINSHA GALLERY) Award
Juries’ Special Award Yoji Kuruma (KURUM’ART contemporary) Award
Juries’ Special Award Ryoko Kido (KIDO Press) Award
1998 Graduated from Musashino Art University College of Art and Design, Department of Crafts Design
2000 Graduated from Tokyo Glass Art Institute
2010 Established STUDIO BAU GLASS in Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Concept of Production
Strange fantasy creatures that appear in “dreams” during sleep. It was nine years ago that I started creating fantasy creatures in glass. The first glass fantasy creature I created was a fluid, green-colored creature called ” Incarnation of the Forest”. For about eight years, I have held solo exhibitions of my fantasy creature series in Kansai (Kyoto and Kobe), but from 2021, I changed the presentation venue to Tokyo, where I am working hard to create new works with a renewed motivation. In these uncertain times, I would be happy if you could feel the life force of these fantasy creatures, which have created a paradise named “Silence and Peace” and are evolving freely in their own minds.
Atsushi Adachi is an artist who creates works based on the theme of “recording memories.” He believes that in “things” that exist, the memories of the times, history, and people are engraved. And by materializing these memories based on resources from those times, he creates a “record” of memories, which were something invisible.
In recent years, he has been presenting artworks that express “records of memories” using not only papers but various other materials and methods of expression.
He has exhibited internationally and domestically, including a solo exhibition in New York.
Chef Patissier
Born in 1993
Graduated from Gunma Culinary Institute in 2016 and began working at Park Hotel Tokyo’s Art Colors Dining in the same year. Winner of the in-house culinary contest. He meticulously and colorfully transforms new ideas into works of art.
Head Chef
Born 1979 in Kanagawa Prefecture.
After graduating from the Tokyo Technical College for Cooking in 1999,
he studied Japanese cooking at “Hatsuhana” in a Hakone hotel, honed his skills at “Hanasansho” at the Park Hotel Tokyo, the Hyatt Regency Tokyo, and “Kappo Takumi” in Nishi-Azabu,
and was appointed as Head Chef at “Hanasansho”, Park Hotel Tokyo.
Cocktail Designer
– Graduated from New York Bartending School.
– While studying at the university, he studied classical cocktails in New York and then he went to Europe to study mixology cocktails.
– Besides working at Park Hotel Tokyo as a bar manager, after winning awards in various competitions, he launched the Gastronomy Algorithm that creates new cocktails with companies, makes a collaboration of chef’s dish and his cocktails, opens seminar, produces bar tools, and more, and he is active all over the world.
– While keeping the traditional style in his mind, he uses the latest bar tools, unconventional materials, and cooking techniques to finish cocktails, and he has belief of taking lessons from history.
New leaves – BY Mino Watabe
This stylish painting depicts a sprout of an augusta plant growing from winter to spring. Artist Watabe takes photos of natural objects and then draws its shapes with a pen repeatedly. While drawing, she keeps trimming the curves, transforming them into straight lines. This style gives birth to fascinating paintings encompassing nature and human skill. This wonderful artwork also underwent this process before creation. This painting shows the moment before a ripened sprout is about to open, making one feel a sense of freshness. The usage of oil paint brings a good balance between soft and deep colors interacting with straight lines. I feel refreshed anytime I see this painting, and I hope you feel the same way.
cloudy – BY Haruna Asanoi
In addition to the weather-related meaning, the word “cloudy” also has the meaning of “dull” or “depressing.”
The artist says she chose this title from the expression and the color of the clothes in the artwork.
The indescribable ennui expression on its face suggests a somewhat gloomy atmosphere.
However, if one were to look at this work without knowing the title, would they get the same impression?
The way it stares at a single point may seem as if it has made up its mind to do something.
Titles are often filled with the artist’s thoughts, but one way to enjoy art may be to look at it with your sensibilities and not be bound by the title.
meditation – BY Une Asai
In creating this artwork, the artist Une Asai spent a great deal of time meditating.
The artist mentioned that when relaxing, she feels like creating a painting.
When you look at this painting, we recommend you relax and talk with it.
It may give you a hint of something you are contemplating.
What is Here – BY Misako Maegaki
What comes to your mind when you think about your hometown?
Landscapes of cities, oceans, and mountains.
There are many precious things, just as many as people.
The ships of this work represent those irreplaceable precious things.
Nostalgic, somewhat lonely, and comfortable feeling that you do not wish to disappear will make you feel warm inside.
Try finding your own ship and layering colors of yours.
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