Miyuki Tsugami: Scenery of Time, Time of Connecting, Time of Accumulating

A collection of works by Miyuki Tsugami titled "View of Time: Connecting, Accumulating." This volume features sketches and notes made while traveling to various locations from 2013 to 2016, alongside the landscape paintings created based on them.

Since around 1997, Tsugami has consistently produced landscape paintings she calls "View." This book includes sketches drawn in places such as the Hiruzen Highlands, London, the River Thames, Grasmere, Edinburgh, Prenzlau (Germany), and Osaka, as well as the canvas works that emerged from them. The structure follows the process by which fragments of scenery encountered during travels transform into paintings over time.

By juxtaposing the traces of landscapes and words accumulated in her sketchbooks with the finished paintings, the book illustrates Tsugami's creative method: rather than merely reproducing a single location, she reconstructs it through memory and the passage of time. Readers can observe the relationship between the landscape paintings, with their unique colors and brushwork, and the sketches that serve as their starting points.

The book features an eight-fold, full-scale gatefold of a sketchbook and employs an exposed spine binding to allow the book to lay flat easily. This collection was published in conjunction with her 2016 solo exhibitions, "View of Time: Connecting" and "View of Time: Accumulating."

[Title] Miyuki Tsugami: View of Time: Connecting, Accumulating
[Publisher] Kyuryudo
[Publication Date] April 27, 2016
[Pages] 136 pages
[Size] approx. 150×211×12mm / 275g
[Format] Softcover, exposed spine binding, eight-fold gatefold insert
[Language] Japanese/English
[Title Reading] Tsugami Miyuki: Toki no Kei, Tsunagu Toki, Tsumoru Toki
[Author/Editor, etc.] Miyuki Tsugami (author), Katsunori Aoki (PANGAEA) (art direction/design), Hideto Nagatsuka (photography), Gianni Plescia (photography), Miyuki Tsugami (photography), Kagari Hashimoto (Hashimoto Art Office) (planning/production)
[Printing/Binding] Dai Nippon Printing (printing/binding)
[ISBN] 9784763016027
[Condition] Used 【9】 Fine
[Accessories] Transparent cover
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[Related Exhibitions] Miyuki Tsugami "View of Time: Connecting" (Pola Museum Annex, April 23–May 29, 2016) / Miyuki Tsugami "View of Time: Accumulating" (Gallery Hashimoto, April 30–May 29, 2016)

Miyuki Tsugami (1973–)

Born in Tokyo in 1973 and raised in Osaka. Painter.
Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 1995 and completed the university's graduate program in 1998.

Since around 1997, she has continuously produced landscape paintings titled "View." She sketches repeatedly during her travels and residencies, developing those experiences into canvas works based on the colors, forms, and memories of time she obtained there.

In 2003, she received the VOCA Award at "VOCA 2003: The Vision of Contemporary Art." In 2005, she participated in the Ohara Museum of Art's artist-in-residence program "ARKO" and held a solo exhibition at the museum. That same year, she received the Kyoto City New Artist Award.

In 2013, she received the Goto Memorial Cultural Award (Fine Arts Division) and stayed in London. In 2015, with support from the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists, she stayed in Berlin and Prenzlau to create works and held a solo exhibition in Germany. In 2016, she held exhibitions of the same name as this book at the Pola Museum Annex and Gallery Hashimoto.

Her works are held in the collections of the Ohara Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art (Osaka), and Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd., among others.

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