Aiko Miyanaga, White Rainbow

Conceptual sculptor and installation artist Aiko Miyanaga opens a new space dedicated to contemporary Japanese art, the White Rainbow Gallery, London

Aiko Miyanaga, Installation shots of Strata: slumbering on the shore at the Central Library Liverpool, 2014, mixed media image: Leo Bieber, courtesy of White Rainbow
The first gallery in the UK dedicated to showcasing contemporary Japanese art has opened with a solo show of Aiko Miyanaga, artist celebrated throughout Asia for her time-based conceptual sculptures and installations. The Nissan Art Award Grand Prix 2013 and an acclaimed solo installation at Hong Kong Art Basel 2014 are amongst the recent accolades by Aiko Miyanaga. Liverpool Central Library’s Picton Reading Room was also hosted her first UK site-specific installations back in August.
Miyanaga’s site-specific work engages with ideas of transience at the level of medium itself. She is known for using naphthalene, a chemical which slowly turns into gas when it comes into contact with air, so that her pieces have the potential to gradually transform their appearance over many years.
Make sure you also don’t miss her sound installation in the gallery’s second room, which invites you to listen in a heightened state in expectation of the delicate cracking sounds from ceramic glaze.
Presented by White Rainbow gallery, London, this first glimpse of Miyanaga’s works reveals both their elegantly sparse presentation and underlying complexity.

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What Aiko Miyanaga, White Rainbow
Where White Rainbow, 47 Mortimer Street , London , W1W 8HJ | MAP
Nearest tube Oxford Circus (underground)
When 07 Oct 14 – 22 Nov 14, 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Price £Free
Website Click here for more information




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