板室温泉 大黒屋

Hinako Miyabayashi “Back of the Sea”

Dates: Friday, November 1, 2024 – Sunday, December 1, 2024
Exhibition hours: 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM (on November 1st, the exhibition opens at 1:00 PM)
Venue: Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya Salon
In cooperation with: Gallery 38

*The exhibition is also open to visitors who are not staying at the hotel.

Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya will hold a solo exhibition by Hinako Miyabayashi entitled ‘Back of the Sea’ from 1st November to 1st December 2024. Born in Hokkaido, Miyabayashi has attended painting classes since childhood and drawing has always been part of her life. As she developed her sensitivity and formed her own world view through painting, her passion for painting naturally deepened. She later graduated from Tama Art University and went on to postgraduate studies at Tokyo University of the Arts. She also studied at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he obtained his Meisterschueler in 2023. She is still a member of the postgraduate painting department of the Tokyo University of the Arts and continues to deepen his expression through his experiences in Japan and abroad.

Miyabayashi’s work is mainly oil paintings, but she also uses collage and various drawing materials to develop her own visual world. She takes the approach of painting her own paintings as ‘layers of grains rather than layers’, creating depth and rhythm in her work through an awareness of the accumulation of grains. These grains are not mere compositional elements, but rather punctuate time and space at the same time, elements that make her paintings feel not fixed, but always dynamic and living space. Despite their high level of abstraction, they are not purely abstract paintings, but have a solid realism running through their very foundations. She always approaches his work with an awareness of ‘painting the wind’ and tries to depict the subtle changes and unseen forces of nature. Miyabayashi once said, ‘The snow falling spreads like layers to invisible distances, similar to the space I want to depict’, and the core of his creative work is to capture these natural phenomena from multiple perspectives and express them beyond time and space. This is deeply connected to her sensitivity to depict the nature and landscapes she has been familiar with since childhood as ‘pictures’.

In her work, she sometimes adopts the technique of layering the support by attaching various fabrics and Japanese papers to the screen, making coincidence and visual displacement important elements of her work. This creates a unique tension and softness in her works, which are not simply piled up as layers, but are depicted as existing in different times and movements, bringing a sense of constant flux and rhythm to the entire picture plane. She is also particular about her supports, and instead of using ready-made white canvases, she creates her own substrates using glue and natural materials. She pays close attention to the texture and texture of materials such as raw linen, wooden panels and jute, and the support itself has a strong presence as part of the work. The selection and use of such materials is a unique approach that emphasises the relationship between expression and materials and creates a new visual experience while embracing external influences. The exhibition will feature approximately 20 new works, mainly produced by Miyabayashi in 2024. Concrete and poetic titles intersect exquisitely with abstract expressions, and the rhythm that flows through the paintings provides the viewer with a rich sensory experience. Each work also leaves room for the viewer to freely interpret and project his or her own individual experiences, providing room for deep contemplation that transcends time. This is the first solo exhibition at Daikokuya. We hope that you will enjoy the world view depicted by Hinako Miyabayashi in the exhibition ‘Back of the Sea’ at Itamuro Onsen in late autumn.