Exhibitions
PARIS – MILAN
15.06.2026
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.
Discover: Key Hiraga’s room
