25 May - 14 June, 2011Adding Dimension

Born in 1976, Saitama Japan
2001 BFA, Painting, Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo, Japan
Viwa started working in 2005, lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.

Solo Exhibition
2007
'Mogra', Tokyo, Japan

Group Exhibition
2011
'Adding Dimension', Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong

2010
'Expanding Horizons : Manufacturing Landscapes', Art + Shanghai, Shanghai, China
'MIYABI', Sunjin Galleries, Singapore

2008
DWP Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
'Esquire Magazine Exhibition', Sunshine Studio, Tokyo, Japan
'QUZILA' with Geoff McFetridge and Yu Nagaba, Sunshine Studio, Tokyo, Japan

2007
'move art management', Tokyo, Japan
'Tokyo Wonder Seeds(conpetision)', Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

Art fair
2008
'Aosando Art Fair', hpDECO, Tokyo, Japan

Others
2007
'SIGG', bottle graphic, Switzerland

2006
'soDA magazine#28 asia-alias', Switzerland

The objective of my work is to recreate the modern versions of decorative arts and their structures from the Edo Period. My works are based on the premises that the paintings on traditional folding screens, byobu, and traditional sliding doors, fusuma, primarily serve a decorative purpose, and that the role of the images and patterns on the surface, represented using the déformer method, is to provide a contrast in order to bring out their decorative function. I believe that, aside from serving as a medium of expression for the artist, paintings can also play a decorative role.