The Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University, will hold MISE Natsunosuke's solo exhibition "Diverse gods". He is an artist who tirelessly works and continually questions Japanese-style painting (Nihonga) in a modern context and the presence of Japan in Japanese-style painting (Nihonga). Contrastively, his works are very much aware of modernity and reflect the characteristics of the region of MISE's residence in addition to modern and historical motifs.

Several of the pieces displayed in this exhibition are giant pieces made by superimposing layers of various Japanese paper that have been joined together. You may have the sense that you are looking at a huge mural or as if you are being enveloped by the painting.

In this exhibition, MISE will display giant landscape paintings in the Japanese-style painting (Nihonga) style which incorporates characteristics of Japan, Tohoku, and the Aomori region. During the exhibition, the ACAC will hold lectures, talks, gallery tours, concerts, and ink painting workshops among other events. In addition to his new work “My god”, MISE's works will fill the ACAC's gallery space centered around his fifty-meter-long “Kikei” (2003-2010).

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Trying to Change This Moment into Eternity (detail), 2010
sumi, whiting, acrylic, collage of ink-jet print on Japanese paper
272×1456cm
photo：Hiromi Seno

Courtesy of Imura Art Gallery and Aomori Contemporary Art Center