宮永愛子 / Aiko Miyanaga

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PROFILE

宮永愛子

1974年京都市生まれ。1999年京都造形芸術大学、美術学部美術学科、彫刻コースを卒業。2008年東京藝術大学大学院、美術研究科先端芸術表現専攻修士課程修了。2012年国立国際美術館(大阪)で個展「空中空なかそら」開催。2013年第一回日産アートアワードグランプリ受賞。日用品をナフタリンでかたどったオブジェや、塩を使ったインスタレーションなど、気配の痕跡を用いて時を視覚化する作品で注目を集める。

Aiko Miyanaga

1974
Born in Kyoto
1999
B.A. Sculpture, Department of Fine Art, Faculty of Art, Kyoto University of Art and Design
2008
M.A. Intermedia Art, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts

 

In 2012 she holds her solo exhibition “MIYANAGA Aiko: NAKASORA -the reason for eternity-“ at The National Museum of Art, Osaka. She is awarded the Nissan Art Award Grand Prize in 2013.
Miyanaga is known for her installations using materials such as salt, and objects moulded with naphthalene to form daily commodities, that trace signs of presence to make time visible.

TESTIMONIAL

廃校になった小学校の校庭で、一人の人形(ひとがた)の輪郭を、幾重にも幾重にも木の棒で描き広げていく。そんなパフォーマンスともとれる彼の作品に出会ったのは、彼が大学年生の時だ。学生らしい等身大の眼差しと、自然体で世界と向き合う飾らない姿が印象に残り、良いなと思った。それから数年が経ち、作家として出発している彼の仕事をみると、制作方法は異なるが最新作でもあの時の観察眼は健在に感じる。大きな運動と成り立ちに着目し、彫刻の技術を使った彼の今後の作品を楽しみにしている。

 

(表良樹)

In the courtyard of an abandoned elementary school, he was tracing the outline of a doll over and over again with a wooden stick. I encountered this performance-like work of his when he was in his third year of university. I was intrigued by his student-like and life-size perspective, and his natural and honest approach to confronting the world. A few years later, I see his work as an artist; his methods may have changed but even in his latest work, that same perspective was still alive. I look forward to his future work which employ sculptural methods, focusing on large movements and origins.

 

(Yoshiki Omote)