LA STANZA DI KEY HIRAGA
Opere degli anni Settanta
Studio Gariboldi ha il piacere di annunciare l’apertura della mostra La stanza Key Hiraga. Opere degli anni Settanta.
La personale riunisce un nucleo di opere folgoranti e psichedeliche dell’artista giapponese ispirate alla Parigi degli anni Settanta.
Fino al 16 luglio 2026
Da lunedì al venerdì, dalle ore 11.00 alle ore 13.00 e dalle ore 14.00 alle 18.00.
La Stanza di Key Hiraga è parte integrante del progetto Italy-Japan. Artisti Giapponesi a Milano dal 1960.
FullOfArt. Prossimo incontro Viaggio in Giappone, la geografia e le case, 18 giugno ore 17.00: clicca qui
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🔹#FullofArt è un progetto di Studio Gariboldi in cui l’arte si intreccia alla letteratura, al cinema e alla musica.
🌱Scrittori, saggisti, poeti, psicologi, filmaker, pittori, storici dell’arte si alternano in galleria e dialogano tra loro e con il pubblico.
La dimensione degli incontri è intima e approfondita, per questo l’ingresso è libero ma la prenotazione è obbligatoria.
📍È un format di Elisabetta Bucciarelli per #StudioGariboldi.
Comunicazione e accoglienza Linda Morando di Custoza.
Banco Libri @scatolalilla di Cristina di Canio.
✉️ Per info: press@studiogariboldi.com
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•18 giugno 2026, Francesca Scotti, Marta Fanasca, Damiana De Gennaro, Viaggio in Giappone: la geografia e le case
•21 maggio 2026, Paolo Linetti, Chiara Bottelli, Le preziose carte giapponesi di Lucio Passerini
•23 aprile 2026, Paolo Di Stefano, Tullio Pericoli, Una giornata meravigliosa
•26 marzo 2026, Linda Bertelli, Marta Equi Pierazzini, Martina Cavalli, La critica secondo Carla Lonzi
•11 dicembre 2025, Eugenio Gazzola, Paolo Di Stefano, Tullio Pericoli, L’Antivassalli
•20 novembre 2025, Fluido, un reading di e con Roberta Scorranese
•13 novembre 2025, Francesca Scotti, Francesca Pieri, L’arte di separarsi
•11 novembre 2025, Stefano Turina, Natsuko Toyofuku, Omaggio a Katsumi Nakai e Tomonori Toyofuku
•16 ottobre 2025, Gianni Biondillo, La costruzione del potere. Perché l’architettura fascista non esiste
•25 settembre 2025, Giorgio Cardazzo, Maurizio Zorat, Daniele Nalin, Who is he?
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On view
🔹PARIS – MILAN
Between the mid-1960s and the early 1970s, Paris and Milan played a pivotal role in the artistic development of Key Hiraga and Aiko Miyawaki. After settling in Paris in 1965, Hiraga created his celebrated series The Elegant Life of Mr. H, a visionary and ironic body of work that captured the vitality of urban life while reflecting his engagement with the French movement of Narrative Figuration. During the same years, Miyawaki worked between Tokyo, Milan, and Paris, developing the brass and steel sculptures for which she became internationally known, including the works produced between 1966 and 1969.
🌱 While Hiraga explored modernity through vivid, imaginative narratives, Miyawaki expressed it through refined sculptural forms shaped by light and space. Although their artistic languages differed, both artists found in Europe an important environment for exchange with contemporary avant-garde movements, while maintaining a distinctly Japanese sensibility. Their works offer two complementary perspectives on the postwar experience of space and time, a dialogue that has also emerged through the recent exhibitions dedicated to both artists by Studio Gariboldi.
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Photo 1. Aiko Miyawaki, Work, installation, 1965-1968, brass, structure containing 289 pipes.
Photo 2. Giovanni preparing the exhibition Aiko Miyawaki, Sculpture 1965–1975, in 2022
Photo 3. Aiko Miyawaki, Sculpture 1965–1975, Installation view, Studio Gariboldi 2022. Courtesy Ph Michele Sereni
Photo 4. Key Hiraga, untitled, 1971, oil on canvas
Photo 5. Linda preparing the exhibition Key Hiraga’s room, 2026
Photo 6. Elisabetta looking at the exhibition Key Hiraga’s room, 2026
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Monday – Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm | 2:00 – 6:00 pm
Saturday by appointment
Info: press@studiogariboldi.com
www.studiogariboldi.com
Corso Monforte 23, Milano
KEY HIRAGA’S ROOM
1970’s Works
7 May – 16 July 2026
HANDS
Hands seek, welcome, brush against, hold, tremble, heal, mend, support, protect, intertwine, reveal, and ultimately let go, transforming every gesture into a silent form of relationship, attention, and care.
In the paintings of #KeyHiraga, hands seem to express a yearning toward the other. In an age marked by distance and mediation, the act of touching and grazing another body takes on meanings different from those it held when the works were first conceived and created. For today’s viewer, it becomes the search for presence and contact.
The artist’s figures appear to entrust to their hands what their faces can no longer convey. Through gesture, the body attempts to transcend the boundary that separates individuals, imprisoned within appearances and imposed roles. Within proximity, there may still exist the possibility of mutual recognition.
The grasping hands, in their unease, also evoke desire and obsession, yet at the same time a fragile longing for belonging. In this way, Key Hiraga transforms the body into an emotional language and touch into a poetic form of connection.
Picture: Key Hiraga, Untitled, 1971, oil on canvas, details, 130 × 165 cm.
The exhibition is part of the project ITALY-JAPAN, Japanese artists in Milan since 1960s, held under the patronage of the Consulate General of Japan in Milan.
Monday – Friday
11:00 am – 1:00 pm | 2:00 – 6:00 pm
Saturday by appointment
Info: press@studiogariboldi.com
www.studiogariboldi.com
Corso Monforte 23, Milano
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🔹#KeyHiraga was a Japanese painter born in Tokyo in 1936. After graduating in economics from Rikkyo University, he devoted himself entirely to painting. In the 1960s he moved to Paris, where he developed a style influenced by Pop Art and psychedelic art.
🌱His works explored themes of desire, consumer society, and sexuality through an ironic and satirical figurative language. He died in 2000 in Hakone, Japan.
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🔹KEY HIRAGA’S ROOM
1970s Works
7 MAY - 16 JULY 2026
Pics: details of Hiraga’s works.
✨Monday - Friday
11:00 am - 1:00 pm | 2:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday by appointment
📍info: press@studiogariboldi.com
www.studiogariboldi.com
Corso Monforte 23, Milan
#modernart #japaneseart #contemporaryart #studiogariboldi
The mouth in the paintings of #KeyHiraga is a central and recurring element.
It often appears distorted, gigantic, or caricatured, immediately attracting the viewer’s attention.
Through this figure, the artist expresses desires, instincts, and the tensions of modern society.
The mouth becomes a symbol of communication, but also of consumption and excessive pleasure.
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🔹KEY HIRAGA’S ROOM
1970s Works
7 MAY - 16 JULY 2026
Pics: details of Hiraga’s works.
✨Monday - Friday
11:00 am - 1:00 pm | 2:00 - 6:00 pm
Saturday by appointment
📍info: press@studiogariboldi.com
www.studiogariboldi.com
Corso Monforte 23, Milan
#modernart #japaneseart #contemporaryart #studiogariboldi
🇲🇦This year, once again, #StudioGariboldi took part in the #PandaRaid, the legendary rally across the Moroccan desert. A total of 3,000 km, 7 stages in 8 days, through dirt, rock, sand, desert landscapes and forests. Every day meant an average of 6–10 hours behind the wheel, tackling dunes, rough tracks and navigation based solely on a roadbook.
🐼Driving a #FiatPanda4x4 Sisley, the crew faced one of the most iconic off-road challenges, where performance is measured through consistency, vehicle management and the ability to adapt to extreme conditions.
🌱Competing against more than 300 teams in the 4x4 category, Studio Gariboldi completed the rally with a strong and consistent performance, standing out for the reliability of the car, steady pace and true team spirit throughout the entire raid.
🏜️Consistency, determination and commitment were the key traits that defined the journey, guiding every stage of the adventure and making it possible to deliver a solid performance from start to finish.
✨An intense experience in the heart of the Moroccan desert, celebrating endurance, teamwork and determination where simply reaching the finish line is an achievement of real value.✨
🐫Giovanni and Elisabetta would like to thank @miniotti.garage, the specialist who prepared and developed their Panda for the raid, and look forward to the next edition of the Panda Raid with @pandaraidoficial and all their fellow raiders!
