Natsuki Oshiro

Statement

Natsuki Oshiro’s work focuses on poems and traditional gardens to replace social symbols with literary perspectives by using her original pattern. As the same moon can contain several meanings by reading past poems, she believes that historic literary perspectives can be a window to make the monotony of the urban landscape a richer experience.

In Japanese gardens, famous scenic spots are represented in a quite simple abstract way. The viewer can recognize it because of using same form. As they are not representational, they contain the possibility of expansion of the imaginary.

In her work, she first creates a pattern that symbolizes the subject, and then abstract “the movement of space in a poem” or “the structure of a garden”. By repeating the same motifs, they become formalized. However, the form of the work changes little by little. One work contains another. The works dynamically “continue to be formalized” by being related to each other.

GlogauAIR Project

My research and works will focus on the theme of point of view in Potsdam’s gardens and landscapes.

Like paintings, gardens are created with the intention of the motion of the viewer’s perspective. They also reflect the thinking of the people of that time.

In Japanese gardens, poetry and religious ideas are expressed, and landscapes change dramatically as you walk through them. The garden of Versailles in France is highly decorative and symmetrical, and the bird’s-eye view is built to represent the authority of the king.

In 1747, King Frederick II of Prussia built the Sans Souci Palace and Gardens in Potsdam, reminiscent of Versailles.

I would like to consider how garden styles from other countries were received in Prussia and the view of the landscape that the king and landscape architects tried to build at that time from an artistic view.

Painting

CV Summary

Education

• Tokyo Zokei University – MFA, in Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan, in 2012
• Waseda University – BA, in Literature (sociology, semiotics and art critics), Tokyo, Japan, in 2008

Recent Solo Exhibitions

• 2022 ”Your moon and bluesdress” bluesdress substitute, Tokyo, JP
• 2021 NADiff Window Gallery vol.74 Natsuki Oshiro “Landscape and Fantasy” NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, JP
• 2021 ”A bird sings a song, then I weep” KATSUYA SUSUKI GALLERY, Tokyo, JP
• 2018 Open studio “Rhapsody in French garden” Cité internationale des arts, Paris, FR
• 2018 ”Repeating Mountains and Rocky Coasts” Art Trace Gallery , Tokyo, JP

Selected Recent Group Exhibitions

• 2022 Art project “Three hot springs of Mimasaka Art temperature” Fukumasu-Tei, Okayama, JP
• 2021 ”Thoughts through Drawings －words” Gallery SATORU, Tokyo, JP
• 2020 Art House Oyabe 5th Anniversary Exhibition “Ayu no Kaze Itashiku Ayuhashiru -When touching somthing invisible” Art House Oyabe, Toyama, JP
• 2020 ”Two nature” PORT ART and DESIGN TSUYAMA / NishiIma25, Okayama, JP

Grants and Awards

• 2018 Grant by Idemitsu Showa Shell, Shell Art Award Residency Support Program (Residency at Cite international des arts, Paris, Nov-Dec, 2018)
• 2017 Nominated for Shell Art Award 2017, Idemitsu Showa Shell, JP
• 2015 Nominated for Tokyo Wonder Seed 2015, JP
• 2014 Nominated for Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program , JP
• 2011 Grant of Holbein Scholarship, JP

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