中西凜 Rin Nakanishi

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1999年静岡県生まれ。2025年東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科彫刻専攻修士課程修了。現在は東京、静岡を拠点に活動。洋菓子を素材とした「eat sculpture」を制作。主な展覧会に2025「Being -PEACE is a Verb-」√k Contemporary、2025「Practical meal,Practical wear」亀戸アートセンター、2025「第二回清水駅前芸術祭」清水駅前銀座商店街他、2024「1 番美味しく食べるには」Marco Gallery、2023「P.O.N.D Dialogue / あたらしい対話に、出会う」PARCO MUSEUM TOKYOなど。

Born in Shizuoka in 1999. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts master’s program in Sculpture in 2025.
Exhibitions include “Being -PEACE is a Verb-” at √k Contemporary (Tokyo, Japan), “Practical meal, Practical wear” at Kameido Art Center (Tokyo, Japan) and “The 2nd Shimizu Station Art Festival” at Shimizu Station Ginza Shopping Street (Shizuoka, Japan) in 2025, “How to eat the most deliciously” at Marco Gallery (Osaka, Japan) in 2024, and “P.O.N.D Dialogue” at PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO (Tokyo, Japan) in 2019.

Experience

個展
2022年「Give me a star」　Gallery 美の舎
2022年「Have you ever wanted to eat yourself?」　Cafe ふろんてぃあ
2023年「eat sculpture」　ART FOR THOUGHT
2024年「about dreams」　kitchen haco

グループ展
2019年「hygge opening exhibition」　hyyge
2021年「in the immature room」　新宿眼科画廊
2023年「第71 回東京藝術大学卒業・修了作品展」　東京都美術館
2023年「びじゅつじょろん5」岡部宿大旅籠柏屋
2023年「Integrate 積分= 統合化」彫刻棟玄関ギャラリー
2023年「P.O.N.D Dialogue / あたらしい対話に、出会う」　PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO
2024年「AFT Market」　ART FOR THOUGHT
2024年「Furnitures, Vessels, Paintings.」　ここらぼの家
2024年「1 番美味しく食べるには」　Marco Gallery
2025年「第73 回東京藝術大学卒業・修了作品展」　東京藝術大学彫刻棟
2025年「第二回清水駅前芸術祭」　清水駅前銀座商店街他
2025年「Practical meal,Practical wear」　亀戸アートセンター
2025年「Being -PEACE is a Verb-」　√k Contemporary

Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Give me a star” Gallery binosha (Tokyo)
2022 “Have you ever wanted to eat yourself?” Cafe frontier (Tokyo)
2023 “eat sculpture” ART FOR THOUGHT (Tokyo)
2024 “about dreams” kitchen haco (Tokyo)

Group Exhibitions
2019 “hygge opening exhibition” hyyge (Shizuoka)
2021 “in the immature room” Shinjuku Ophthalmologist Gallery (Tokyo)
2023 “71st Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation Works Exhibition” Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo)
2023 “BIJYUTSU JYORON5” Okabe-juku Grand Inn Kashiwaya (Shizuoka)
2023 “Integrate Integral = Integration” Tokyo University of the Arts, Sculpture Building (Tokyo)
2023 “P.O.N.D Dialogue” PARCO MUSEUM TOKYO (Tokyo)
2024 “AFT Market” ART FOR THOUGHT (Tokyo)
2024 “Furnitures, Vessels, Paintings.” kokolab house (Shizuoka)
2024 “How to eat the most deliciously” Marco Gallery (Osaka)
2025 “73nd Tokyo University of the Arts Graduation and Completion Works Exhibition” Tokyo University of the Arts, Sculpture Building (Tokyo)
2025 “The 2nd Shimizu Station Art Festival” Shimizu Station Ginza Shopping Street (Shizuoka)
2025 “Practical meal, Practical wear” Kameido Art Center (Tokyo)
2025 “Being -PEACE is a Verb-” √k Contemporary (Tokyo)

Statement

洋菓子店で育ったバックグラウンドから主に洋菓子を素材にした彫刻、パフォーマンスを制作。鑑賞体験を、見るだけでなく食べるという、香りや味、食感といったアプローチに拡張する、食べる彫刻（eat sculpture）をつくる。

With a background of growing up in a confectionery store, Nakanishi creates sculptures and performances mainly using confections as material. He creates edible sculptures (“eat sculpture”) which expands the viewing experience from not just looking, but to eating – an approach to aroma, taste and texture.

Testimonial

古代より彫刻は、その恒久性が強調されるメディウムだが、中西の出自に根ざした洋菓子の製菓技法による「eat sculpture（食べる彫刻）」は、痛ましい程の脆弱さと儚さをまとう。
私たちは、他者の命を犠牲にしなければ自らの生を繋げないという不可避の暴力性を抱えており、これは原罪にも等しい存在の根源的な矛盾である。
鑑賞と食す行為、制作と製菓の交錯において、乖離した生と死を、自と他を、中西は大きな循環の中に再び結い直そうと試みる。
その甘美な香気と味覚は、私たちの身体の奥深くへと沈潜してゆく。食は、赦しと祈りと愛の表現でもある。

（Yotta）

Since ancient times, the durability of sculptures has been an emphasised as a medium, however, Nakanishi’s “eat sculpture (edible sculpture)” created using confectionery-making techniques rooted in his upbringing, is dressed in a painful vulnerability and transience.

We all hold an inevitable aspect of violence, that we cannot continue living without the sacrifice of another’s life – this is a fundamental conflict equivalent to original sin.

Nakanishi attempts to reconnect the bond of the estranged life and death, of the self and others, within a great cycle, where the action of viewing and eating, production and confectionery-making intersect.

The luscious aroma and taste, sink into the depths of our bodies. Food is also an expression of forgiveness, prayer and love.

（Yotta）