Take Ninagawa is pleased to announce the opening of Misaki Kawai's latest solo exhibition at the gallery, "Enpitsu Taisou", coinciding with the launch of a drawing book of the same name published by schtucco / edition nord.

Misaki Kawai is known for making mixed-media paintings, sculptures and installations depicting an eccentric range of characters drawn from pop culture, thrift store branding and the artist's own community. For Kawai, drawing is an integral visual structure that informs her works in other media. Over the past year Kawai has been producing more than a drawing a day for compilation in a new artist book by the art publishers schtucco / edition nord. This exhibition will comprise a site-specific installation of over 120 drawings selected from those made for the book alongside a large-scale wall-painting of multi-colored pencils encircling the gallery space, and a new multimedia sculptural work incorporating a projected animation.

This is Kawai's third exhibition within the gallery, and follows her recent solo exhibition of new paintings, reliefs and sculptures for Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery's Project N in late 2010. From September 10 to November 6 of this year Kawai will be featured in a solo exhibition at Malmo Konsthall, with a concurrent solo show at Galleri Loyal, also in Malmo.