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HIRAKU Project Vol.14 Naofumi Maruyama Kicking the Water: Sengokuhara Installation view
2023, Pola Museum of Art
HIRAKU Project Vol.14 Naofumi Maruyama Kicking the Water: Sengokuhara Installation view
2023, Pola Museum of Art
Domani: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition 2022-23 Installation view
2022, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Domani: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition 2022-23 Installation view
2022, The National Art Center, Tokyo
Kicking the Water Installation view
2022, ShugoArts
Kicking the Water Installation view
2022, ShugoArts
Kicking the Water Installation view
2022, ShugoArts
Waterfront Scenery (201812)
2018, acrylic on cotton, 131x162cm [13510]
Lascaux and Weather Installation view
2018, ShugoArts
Waterfront Scenery (201704)
2017, acrylic on cotton, 112x145.5cm [12731]
FLOWING Installation view
2017, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, South Korea
Waterfront Scenery (201502)
2015, acrylic on cotton, 130.3x162cm [11830]
rice fields
2013, acrylic on cotton, 181.8x227.3cm [10709]
NEW PHASES in CONTEMPORARY PAINTING A Curator’s Message 2012 Installation view
2012, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Hyogo, Japan
puddle in the woods 2
2010, acrylic on cotton, 183x366cm [09149]
TSUBAKI KAI TEN 2009 Trans-Figurative Installation view
2009, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
meltwater 2
2008, acrylic, cotton, 276x134cm [8127]
appear
2008, acrylic on cotton, 183x366cm [08131]
the front in the back Installation view
2008, Meguro Museam of Art, Tokyo, Japan
aurora
2005, acrylic on cotton, 260ｘ130cm [12700]
breeze 1
2004, acrylic on cotton, 227.3ｘ145.5cm [05814]
Butterfly song
2004, acrylic on cotton, 260x260cm [06166]
Garden 1
2003, acrylic on cotton, 182.0x227.5cm [05102]
HAPPINESS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR ART + LIFE Installation view
2003, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Island of Mirror
2003, acrylic on cotton, 181.8x227.3cm [05153]
color of river
2003, acrylic on cotton, 2 pieces: 113.5x340cm each [05150]
See
1999, acrylic on cotton, 80x130cm [04074]
Go to Lake I
1998, acrylic on cotton, 80x130cm [09147]
Temperierte Zeit Installation view
1998, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Yoko
1996, acrylic on cotton, 162x131cm [10216]
Face 2
1995, acrylic on cotton, 91x73cm [02026]
Untitled (Red Painting A)
1990, acrylic on cotton, 334x230cm [03721]
Untitled (Red Painting B)
1991, acrylic on cotton, 334x230cm [03722]
Recent Works Installation view
1992, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
untitled (green leeves)
1990, acrylic on cotton, 192x333cm [00655]
- overview
- Born in Niigata, Japan in 1964. Maruyama currently lives and works in Tokyo. He has become one of the most important painters in Japan since the 1990s. The artist incorporates the stain technique, a painting technique using cotton cloths soaked with water and acrylics, in order to depict his motifs which are so soft that they melt with time and place. His paintings are figurative yet abstract, ushering the viewers to a plateau where there is no boundary between a subject and an object; in other words, the viewers become part of his paintings. Maruyama’s painting practice is bolstered by his diligent, rational and sincere research and practice of “the possibility of the spaces that exist only inside paintings.” He has been a Professor in the Painting Department at the Musashino Art University since 2000. Maruyama received The Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technologyʼs Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists in 2008.
Selected exhibitions: HIRAKU Project Vol.14 Naofumi Maruyama Kicking the Water: Sengokuhara, Pola Museum of Art, Kanagawa, 2023; Kicking the Water, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2022; Lascaux and Weather, ShugoArts,Tokyo, 2018; FLOWING, Wooson Gallery, Daegu, 2017; GROUND2: Talking About Paintings, Talking About Seeing, Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, 2016; Niigata Creations ‒ Museum in Motion, Niigata City Art Museum, Niigata, 2014; Floating Boat, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi, 2011; Transparent Footsteps, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2010; the front in the back, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2008; Portrait Session, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, 2007; The Elegance of Silence: Contemporary Art from East Asia, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2005; HAPPINESS: A SURVIVAL GUIDE FOR ART + LIFE, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2003; Taipei Biennial: Great Theatre of the World, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, 2002; MOT Annual 1999: Modest Radicalism, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 1999; 8th Triennale-India, Lalit Kala Akademi, National Academy of Art, New Delhi, 1994; Solo at Satani Gallery Tokyo, 1992 - cv
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“HIRAKU Project Vol.14 Naofumi Maruyama Kicking the Water: Sengokuhara” Pola Museum of Art
2023.1.28 Sat - 7.2 Sun
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Domani: The Art of Tomorrow Exhibition 2022-23 A century back, a century forward
2022.11.19 Sat - 2023.1.29 Sun
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“Kicking the Water” Installation movie, 2022, ShugoArts
2022.9.24 Sat - 11.5 Sat
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Kicking the Water
2022.9.24 Sat - 11.5 Sat
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Interview 2018.06 at his atelier
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Study
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Participate: Monet’s Legacy Yokohama Museum of Art
2018.7.14 Sat - 9.24 Mon
Naofumi MARUYAMA, puddle in the woods 5, 2010, acrylic on cotton, 227.3x181.8cm
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Lascaux and Weather
2018.7.7 Sat - 8.10 Fri
Naofumi MARUYAMA, Waterfront Scenery (201809), 2018, acrylic on cotton, 90x145.7cm
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Solo Exhibition : flowing WOOSON GALLERY Daegu Korea
2017.7.6 Thu - 9.8 Fri