Artist

MIYANAGA Koutarou

Syncretism Style “RAKUCHU Kansei Art Exihibition Kyoto 2024”, Midera Sennyu-ji Temple(Kyoto), 2024

swaying landscape, “Rokko Meets Art 2010”, Rokko Musical Box Museum & Gardens MORINONE(Hyogo), 2010
Photo: Takashi Hatakeyama

Pulse, “Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2006”, Dragon Museum of Contemporary Art(Niigata), 2006

MIYANAGA Koutarou

Born 1969 in Kyoto, live in Kyoto
1992 B.A. in Fine Arts (Sculpture), Kanazawa College of Art

When creating works on the potter's wheel, I conceptualize the form two-dimensionally through its silhouette. This flat silhouette manifests as a three-dimensional form through the rotation of the wheel. The potter's wheel, which generates this rotation, is a tool that syncretizes the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional. Through this syncretism, codes such as materials and techniques are refined and presented as a "mode"—the artwork itself. In the contemporary era, I believe that treating various elements as codes, syncretizing them, and transforming them into works as a "mode" is a methodology toward the future rooted in our ancient ways of living. By presenting this practice and proposal within the exhibition, I aim to visualize it as a syncretic style.

Selected Exhibition

“presence in between”. MIZUMA ART GALLERY(Tokyo), 2026

“Kobe Rokko Meet Art”, Hall of Halls Rokko(Hyogo), 2010

“Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2006”, Dragon Museum of Contemporary Art(Niigata), 2006

Selected Award

“Award at the Oita Asian Sculpture Exhibition” Excellence Award, 2004

“The Kyoto City New Artist Award” 2007

“Kizugawa Art 2014” grand prize, 2014

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