Aiko Miyawaki (1929-2014, Tokyo) è un’artista giapponese. Dopo la guerra, Miyawaki viene introdotta al mondo dell’arte astratta attraverso incontri con figure influenti come Nobuya Abe e Yoshishige Saito.
La sua carriera artistica inizia con la prima mostra personale alla Yoseido Gallery di Tokyo nel 1957. Il suo interesse per il surrealismo e la sua ricerca di nuove forme di espressione artistica la portano a sperimentare con materiali diversi, tra cui vetro e marmo in polvere, creando opere bidimensionali che incarnano la sua visione del mondo.
La svolta nella carriera di Miyawaki avviene durante il suo soggiorno a Milano, dove inizia a lavorare con i tubi di ottone, una scelta che avrebbe definito il suo stile artistico futuro. Miyawaki trasforma questi materiali in sculture che esplorano il tema della luce e della riflessione, incarnando la sua visione della vita come un continuo processo di trasformazione. In questi anni, espone in numerose gallerie internazionali, tra cui la Galleria Minima di Milano (1961), la Tokyo Gallery di Tokyo (1962), la André Schoeller Galerie di Parigi (1962).
Il suo lavoro con i tubi di ottone si evolve ulteriormente durante il suo soggiorno a New York, dove entra in contatto con artisti come Sam Francis e Jasper Johns, aprendo nuove prospettive creative. Inaugurerà le mostre presso l’Hopkin Center, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire (1964), e presso la Staempfli Gallery di New York (1969).
Nel 1970, espone anche all’International Press Club di Varsavia, alla Galerie Pryzmat con l’Unione Artisti di Cracovia e al Museo Sztuki Lodzi in Polonia.
Le sue opere pubbliche permanenti si trovano in istituzioni prestigiose come il Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Nagi, Okayama; l’Hakone Open-Air Museum; il Biwako Ohashi Sculpture Plaza, Shiga; il Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Gunma; la Plaza Tower and Town Center di Costa Mesa, California; l’Anella Olimpica di Barcellona e l’esplanade del La Défense a Parigi. Nel 1994, ha inaugurato una serie di opere presso il nuovo museo per l’arte contemporanea Nagi, progettato dal suo marito Arata Isozaki.

© Galleria del Naviglio, Milano
In Galleria
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE PERSONALI
2024
Aiko Miyawaki, sculpture Studio Gariboldi, Milan
2017, 2019
Seiho Gallery, Tokyo
2014
Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka
2013
Toki no Wasuremono Gallery, Tokyo
2012
Toki no Wasuremono Gallery, Tokyo
Seiho Gallery, Tokyo
2004, 2006
Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka
2001
Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka
Nagi Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagi
1998
Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura
1996
Hara Museum of Art, Tokyo
Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
1994
Palac Sztuki, Cracovia
1993
Saka Gallery, Tokyo
1991
Fundació Joan Miró, Barcellona
1990
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Parigi
Galerie Art Défense, Parigi
Saint-Guillaume Gallery, Tokyo
1987
Kanagawa Prefectural Hall Gallery, Yokohama
1986
Staempfli Gallery, New York
1985
Galerie Hosun, Tokyo
1984
Nishida Gallery, Nara
1983
Gallery Ueda Warehouse, Tokyo
1981
Mikimoto Hall, Tokyo
1980
Takagi Gallery, Nagoya
Seiho Gallery, Tokyo
1976
Galleria del Naviglio, Milano
1970
Museo Sztuki, Łódź
Galerie Pryzmat con l’Unione Artisti di Cracovia, Polonia
International Press Club, Varsavia
1969
Staempfli Gallery, New York
1967
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1964
Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York
1962
Galerie André Schoeller, Parigi
Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
1961
Galleria Minima, Milano
1959
Yoseido Gallery, Tokyo
PRINCIPALI MOSTRE COLLETTIVE
2024
“MOT Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“Koichi Somaki x Aiko Miyawaki Exhibition” Toki no Wasuremono Gallery, Tokyo
“Avant-Garde in Japan and Italy: International Dialogue of Artists in the 20th Century”, Fukuyama Museum of Art, Fukuyama
2023
“Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction (1940–70)”, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
“MOMAT Collection”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
“A Leap into the Void. Art Beyond Matter”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo
“Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction (1940–70)”, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Londra
“Images and Symbols: Rereading the Art in the 1960s”, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama, Kamakura Annex
2022
“Women of Influence”, The Mayor Gallery, Londra
“Repetitions”, The Mayor Gallery, Londra
“Avant-Gardes: Japon, L’après 1950″, Galerie Nichido, Parigi
“Man Ray and the Women”, The Museum of Modern Art Kamakura & Hayama, Hayama
2021
“Asian Art in London”, The Mayor Gallery, Londra
“White: Abstract Exhibition”, The Mayor Gallery, Londra
2020
“Tokyo Gallery 70th Anniversary (Part 1)”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
“Collection 1: Transgressing Lines”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
2019
“The essence of Japan unearthed? Unearthing the past, constructing the future”, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2018
“The Myriad Forms of Visual Art: 196 Works with 19 Themes”, National Museum of Art, Osaka
“Takiguchi Shuzo Miyawaki Aiko ca.1960”, Art Office Ozasa, Kyoto
“1968. Art in the Turbulent Age”, Chiba City Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art Annex; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art.
2016
“A Feverish Era: Art Informel and the Expansion of Japanese Artistic Expression in the 1950s and ’60s”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
2014
“The Hara Museum Collection At 35”, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
“4 X 4”, Stephen Friedman Gallery, Londra
“Metals!”, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka
2013
“The Narrators”, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
“Women Artists Exhibition. We will go beyond”, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka
2006
“Public Art in Japan”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo; The Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
2005
“Japanese Women Artists in Avant-garde Movements, 1950-1975”, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
“Drifting Objects of Dreams: The Collection of Shuzo Takiguchi“, Setagaya Art Museum, Setagaya
2004
“Resounding Spirit. Japanese Contemporary Art of the 1960s: The Gibson Gallery Collection”, The Gibson Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam
“New Tokyo Gallery Exhibition”, Tokyo Gallery, Tokyo
2003
“Young Artists Surrounding Aiko Miyawaki’s “Utsurohi”, Museum Haus Kasuya, Yokosuka
2002
“Here is the Museum, the scape collaborated with our collection, artists and you-The Encounter of our Collection and 4 Artists”, Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
2001
“Minami Keiko Aiko Miyawaki”, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka
1999
“Arcadia in Celle – Gori collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Mori Art Museum
1998
“To and From Shuzo Takiguchi”, The National Museum of Art, Osaka
1997
“Japanese Art 1960s: Japanese Summer 1960-1964”, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki
“The World in Transition. Painting in Japan since 1945”, Takaoka Art Museum, Takaoka
1994
“When the Body Becomes Art: The Organs and Body as Object,” Itabashi Art Museum, Tokyo
“Japanese Art after 1945: Scream Against the Sky,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“L’art à la plage,” Saint – Tropez
“Itinere,” Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela
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