msb gallery is pleased to present "DUMMIES," a solo exhibition by Shusuke Ao.

 

Ao's creation of inflatable dummies, which are replicas of real objects, began with military dummy balloons.

He has expanded from defense-related objects such as missiles and fighter aircraft and in recent years has presented works such as cars and photo panels, consistently inspired by his own deeply etched memories.

 

This exhibition will feature a group of works created to capture and preserve the state of objects within ever-changing images.

Will Ao's deceptive modelling form link with our experiences or memories to ballon up? We invite you to experience it for yourself.

 

 

 

 

 

Shusuke Ao

1981   Born in Ibaraki

2004   BA Japanese Painting, Tama Art University

 

Public collection: Aomori Museum of Art

 

 

 

Solo exhibitions

2023   DUMMIES, Gallery Rokutsubo, Niigata, Japan

2021   Assembly, Models, Documentation, Reality, Aomori Museum of Art Community Gallery, Aomori, Japan

2018   In the night of missile rain, boy dreams of flying. solo exhibition, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan 

2011   Multirole Fighters, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan

           TRIAL, Museum of Aeronautical Sciences, Chiba, Japan

2010   PAX-4, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan

2006   Flight, open studio, Yokosuka, Japan

2004   man game, key gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003   Everything on the shelfs in my brain, Ono gallery II, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Group exhibitions

2025   Magical Mystery Fuchu, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, Japan

2024   AOMORI GOKAN Arts Fest 2024 Interweavers in Open Fields, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan

2023   Aomori Museum of Art Collection 2023-1 Special Presentation: AO Shusuke × Kishi Omori /ARMORY SHOW SITE-A: Damage Control, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan

2021   (Commission work) The World of Tomino Yoshiyuki: A Retrospective of Legendary Anime Director, Niitsu Art Museum, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Japan

　　    A HUE WAS AN AUGUST JOKE /with EGAWA Junta, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan

           Tamabi DNA :A Genealogy of Contemporary Nihonga Japanese Paintings Since 1965, Tama Art University Art-Theque, Tokyo, Japan            

2019   (Commission work) The World of Tomino Yoshiyuki: A Retrospective of Legendary Anime Director, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan

　       The German Way of Life II, Haus am Dom / Zollamt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

           GENERATION W(AR), Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA

2017   LOVE LOVE SHOW The Second, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan

2016   Art and Air, Tomakomai City Museum, Hokkaido, Japan

　　    META real, Kanagawa prefectural gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

2014   Art and Air, Verkehr Shimizu Port Terminal Museum, Shizuoka, Japan

　　    PLAYERS – Art starts from plays, Arts Maebashi, Gunma, Japan

2013   Quadrivium, CES contemporary, Laguna Beach, CA, Japan

2012   Featherweight, West Los Angeles College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

　　    Co/Lab in Art Platform Los Angeles, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, exhibited installation Operation”B”, USA

　　   1End of war in the decade of the 2010s curated by Yohsuke Takahashi, eitoeiko, Tokyo, Japan

　　   Art and Air, Aomori Museum of Art, Aomori, Japan

　　   New City Art Fair, hpgrp gallery, NYC, USA

2011  Gateway Japan, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, USA

　　   act, with Yuji Ichikawa and Takushi Hibino, Akibatamabi21 in 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery is pleased to present "POLY -transparency," a solo exhibition by HORIGUCHI Shingo.

 

In recent years, Horiguchi has referred to himself as a "double-eyed painter" and has adopted an approach that translates into painting the process by which images captured by the human eyes are integrated in the brain.

By weaving together multiple images on a single plane, he attempts to create within the painting a structure in which the background and figure interpenetrate in a complex way.

In this exhibition, he has added a new element, making use of the transparency of acrylic paint, aiming to create a pictorial space where the transparency of reality and fiction are further polymerized.

 

We invite you to experience the significant results of his experimental works from the past few years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HORIGUCHI Shingo

 

1993　Born in Kyoto

2016　BFA Department of painting -Japanese Painting Course, Tama Art University
2018　MFA Tama Art University Master's Degree Program in Painting -Japanese painting research area

 

 

 

Solo exhibitions
2025　Polymerization, Kameido Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

2024　POLY -viewpoint, obi gallery, Kanagawa, Japan

2023　EYE-BALLS ADVENTURE par:2, Yanagisawa Gallery（Direction: Gallery pepin）, Saitama, Japan

　　 　EYE-BALLS ADVENTURE part:1, LOOP HOLE, Tokyo, Japan

2021　The Field and Daylight 3.2, tagboat, Tokyo, Japan

　　 　The Field and Daylight 3.0, Sukiwa, Tokyo, Japan

2020　FUZZY CRAWL, Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan

2019　BEAST / HUMAN / MACHINE, Kameido Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

　　 　Vapor under the city, Sukiwa, Tokyo, Japan

2018　Drone’s eye(half a person), tagboat, Tokyo, Japan

　　    The Field and Daylight2.0, Art Space Rashinban, Tokyo, Japan
2017　The Field and Daylight montan, O-librO, Chiba, Japan
　　 　The Field and Daylight, Galleria AONEKO, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Residency 

2022　Minato Media Museum 2022, Ibaraki, Japan

 

 

Awards
2024　KAMIYAMA ART Quadriennale Walato Onishi Prize, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan

　　 　59th Kanagawa Art Exhibition, Flat and three-dimensional work section, Prefectural Assembly Chairman's Award, Kanagawa Prefectural Hall, Yokohama, Japan

2018　Let’s go to the Gallery 2018, Sukiwa Award, Sukiwa, Tokyo, Japan

　　　 Independent Tokyo 2018 TAGBOAT Award, Asakusabashi Hikichi Hall, Tokyo, Japan

　　 　13th Daikokuya Contemporary Art Open Call Exhibition, Selected, Itamuro Onsen Daikokuya, Tochigi, Japan

2017　Kanaya Art Museum Concours, Selected, Kanaya Art Museum, Chiba, Japan

2014　Winning Works of Yume Biennial Public Contest, Encouragement Award, Hachioji Yume Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery is pleased to present "Drifting through the sight," a solo exhibition by Ayane Aoshima.

 

She creates paintings based on the theme of how she perceives landscapes as they appear to her eyes.

 

In this, her second solo exhibition at our gallery, she's painted layers of light and air softly yet powerfully, using a minimal colors. Through the rhythm of oil brushstrokes and charcoal lines, she attempted to express the atmosphere and impressions.

 

We hope you will enjoy experiencing the sights that resonate with you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ayane Aoshima

 

1994　Born in Kanagawa, Japan

2018　BFA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023　Scenery seen by the senses, gallery fu, Kanagawa

            viewpoint, msb gallery, Tokyo

2022　One Scene, ART & CAFE + BAR a • i • u., Tokyo

2019　a “MOMENT”, gallery fu, Kanagawa

2018　landscape, gallery fu, Kanagawa

2017　From a piece of drawing, gallery fu, Kanagawa

 

 

Group Exhibitions

2024   Let’s Go to the Gallery 2024, Sukiwa, Tokyo

2023   AHA gallery project: AHA exhibition,  Mitsukoshi Fukuoka Art Gallery 4/F, Fukuoka

          10th anniversary memorial exhibition-LOVE+art+PEACE, gallery fu, Kanagawa

           2nd Exhibition of Selected Works for FEI PURO ART AWARD, FEI ART MUSEUM 

           YOKOHAMA, Kanagawa

           Preface II, ART POINT GALLERY, Tokyo

2022   Special exhibition - gift from….to…., gallery fu, Kanagawa

           TAMA ART UNIVERSITY ASSISTANTS EXHIBITION 2022, Tama Art University, 

           Hachioji Campus Art-Theque Gallery, Tokyo

2021  TAMA ART UNIVERSITY ASSISTANTS EXHIBITION 2021, Tama Art University, 

           Hachioji Campus Art-Theque Gallery, Tokyo

           MOTHER, gallery fu, Kanagawa

2020   gallery fu 7th anniversary memorial exhibition-Seven stars, gallery fu, Kanagawa

2018   Exhibition AHA, JASMAC AOYAMA, Tokyo          

2014   BAKER’S DOZEN MUSEUM2, TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo

           BAKER’S DOZEN MUSEUM, TURNER GALLERY, Tokyo

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery will be holding a two-person exhibition "Detour" by Keita Sakai and Kotomi Furuya.

 

This exhibition focuses on the actions evoked by the word "activity" and features a group of works that attempt to find certainty from the sensations and ambiguities that arise from habits and repetition.

 

Sakai creates works using perceptive discrepancy through the repetition of lines, while Furuya explores the nature of painting through thread. Both artists challenge themselves to make something slightly different from their usual approaches.

 

We hope you enjoy the exhibition.

 

 

Direction: Keita Sakai

 

 

 

*Due to our participation in KAM2025, the owner will be absent from May 15th to 18th, and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. The artist(s) will be present in the gallery. Thank you for your understanding.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery is pleased to present “Fold the Scene,” a solo exhibition by Ayako Inoue. 

 

The scenery that the artist paints is the one close to her. She expresses it without relying on outlines, but by using the bleeding and blurring of colors of oil paint.

The scenes, which she depicts while considering what appears in the dim light and how it exists, feel like afterimages of memories that are slowly etched in the mind, but they certainly exist.

 

We hope you enjoy the pure and quiet atmosphere that her scene creates.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery is pleased to present “SEAL,” a solo exhibition by TASSEI FURUYA.

 

Based in Osaka, he creates three-dimensional and semi-three-dimensional works using old  paper, wood, and water-based paints. 

He attempts to evoke heat, which is difficult to perceive visually, through scorch marks, earthy appearance, and the transience of objects that are distorted yet retain their shape.

 

In this exhibition, we hope to share with all of you his works that leave a warm trace in today's ever-changing world.

 

 

 

 ※ The artist is scheduled to be in the gallery on the following days: 

   March 20 and 21 at 15:00~19:00

   March 22 at 12:00~19:00

   March 30 at 12:00~17:00

 

 

 

 

TASSEI FURUYA

 

 

 

1998   Born in Osaka, Japan

2021   Osaka University of Arts, BA in Fine Arts: Oil paintings  

　

 

Solo exhibitions

2024   TOMOSHIBI, Kawata gallery, Kobe, Japan

2023   KEEP HEAT, Gallery Bricolage, Kobe, Japan

　　    Rebuild, Café du Vent, Kyoto, Japan

           Trace, Bio Dental Clinic ASHIYA, Kobe, Japan

2022   Territory, Gallery Bricolage, Kobe Japan 

           Existence, ART COCKTAIL, Osaka, Japan

2021   Record and replay, Gallery Bricolage, Kobe, Japan

 

 

Group exhibitions

2024   KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2024, Kanazawa, Japan

           OSAKA ART MARKET 2024, Osaka, Japan

           ART JAKARTA 2024, Jakarta, Indonesia

           ART OSAKA 2024, Osaka, Japan

2023   device -Group exhibition: Chapter 6, KEN FINE ART, Osaka, Japan 

           KOGEI Art Fair Kanazawa 2023, Kanazawa, Japan

           UNKNOWN ASIA 2023, Osaka, Japan

           ART WEEKS at Daimaru Kobe, Kobe Japan

           KOBE ART MARCHÉ 2023, Kobe Japan

2022   ART COCKTAIL World 5th ART COMPETITION, Osaka Japan 

2021   ARTdrops organized by Marco gallery, Tokyo, Japan

           BE AT TOKYO PROJECT, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery is pleased to present “Un chemin de fil,” a solo exhibition by Armel Barraud.

 

Currently based in Rennes, France, she creates wire lace artworks using the traditional bobbin lace technique.

 

Skillfully weaving delicate metallic threads with spindles and fingertips, she crafts her own poetic and dreamlike universe.

This is achieved by combining patterns of motifs featuring figures, animals, and plants inspired by fairy tales or Greek myths. It’s as if she is telling a story with metal threads.

 

This marks her first solo exhibition in Tokyo. She has had a connection with Japan since 2010 when she participated in the Artist in Residence program at Villa Kujyoyama, part of the Kansai Franco-Japanese Cultural Exchange Center in Kyoto.

 

We hope you enjoy her funny and humorous works in this exhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Armel Barraud

 

 

Distinctions

2012   The reflection, 1st prize in the FIMA competition (International Festival of Crafts) Baccarat, France  

　　   Talents à la carte, Winner of the competition, Salon Maison et objects, France Young challenge, Fondation d’Art de France, Paris, France

 

 

Expositions 

2024   Marelle, ombre et dentelle. Argenteuil, France  

2023   Atelier Byzance, fleurs, Paris

2023   ID textile, Aiguille en fête, Paris

2023   Entrelacs et dentelle, Bibliothèque Est Ensemble.

2022   Festival du Textile “Living Lace”, Renaix , Belgique

2022   De Fil en Fil, Galerie de l'Hôpital Camfrout, Bretagne

2021   Ne pas piétiner: espace naturel au repos, solo exposition, Maison des dentelles, Argentan

2020-23  Wir, Galerie Hokema, Allemagne, Schwäbisch Gmünd

　　　Ballade avec Don Quichotte, Textile Box, Musée du costume et de la dentelle, Brussels, Belgium  

　　　Exposition de Dentelle contemporaine, Congrés mondial de la dentelle, Bruges, Belgium 

2017   Le Multiple, Galerie LOUISE, Paris, France 

　　　Galerie FISCH HAUS, Wichita, KS, USA 

　　　Empreinte et légèreté poétique, Ateliers Art de France 

　　　Exposition anniversaire de la revue composition, Galerie O.F.R, Paris, France 

2016   Le corps, Ateliers d’Art de France, Galerie Collection ; Paris, France 

　　　Autels, Galerie IKI, Paris, France 

2015   Renaissance, MET, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Manille, Philippines  Suivez le fil ! Entrez en matière, Institut National des Métiers d’art, Cité des sciences, Paris,   France 

　　　Renaissance, Exposition de la pièce Moucharabieh, Musée Bargoin et Festival international des textiles extraordinaires, Clermont Ferrand, France 

　　　Dentelles…et plus si affinités, Commissaire d’exposition. Pôle expérimental des Métiers d’art et FRACE, Nontron, France 

　　　Folles dentelles, Galerie «A l’écu de France», Viroflay, France 

2014   Dans la verdoyance du mille-fleurs, solo exhibition, Seikado, Kyoto, Japan 

　　　The French Craft Project, COLLECT(Stand 7.6) , the Staachi Gallery, London, UK 

2010   Agathe de Bailliencourt/ Catherine Gianola/ Armel Barraud, contiguous zone vol.2 "touch to Japanese sensibility," YOD Gallery, Osaka, Japan

　　　Une histoire racontée à travers des dentelles, solo exhibition, Seikado, Kyoto, Japan 

 

 

 

Provided Works 

Collaboration works for minä perhonen realized from their own cloth designs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 🇫🇷Biographie en français

 

 

Armel Barraud 

 

 

Née en 1979, au Havre en France. 

 

Actuellement habitant à Rennes, France, Armel crée des œuvres en dentelle de fils de metal utilisant la technique traditionnelle de la dentelle aux fuseaux.

 

Tissant habilement des fils métalliques délicats au fuseau et au bout des doigts, elle crée son propre univers poétique et onirique.

Elle y parvient en combinant des motifs représentant des personnages, des animaux et des plantes inspirés de contes de fées ou de mythes grecs. C'est comme si elle racontait une histoire avec des fils de métal.

 

Ce sera sa première exposition personnelle à Tokyo, pour elle qui a un lien avec le Japon depluis qu’elle a participé au programme d'artiste en résidence à la Villa Kujyoyama au sein du Centre culturel franco-japonais du Kansai à Kyoto en 2010.

 

Nous espérons vous apprécier ses œuvres drôles et plein d'humour dans cette exposition.

 

 

 

Distinctions 

2012   Le reflet, 1er prix du concours FIMA (Festival Internationale des Métiers d’Art) Baccarat, France  Talents à la carte, Lauréate du concours, Salon Maison et objets, France  Défi jeune, Fondation d’Art de France, Paris, France 

 

 

 

 

 

 

msb gallery is pleased to present “Where the tides meet,” a solo exhibition by Nana Matsumoto.

 

Her works are mainly a combination of flat surfaces and objects.

In this exhibition, she experimentally explores the interaction between different materials and the reaction within the works, which changes depending on the presence of conditions and substances.

 

We hope you enjoy the sensation of a glimpse into fragments of memory.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artist Statement

 

 

Where currents of different temperatures and salinities collide, long, thin lines appear on the ocean's surface, along which bubbles and pieces of wood gather.

The connection between an object and its purpose or background begins to waver when it interacts with something else. By combining planes, objects, words, etc., I find causal or non-causal relationships between different things and reconstruct them within the framework of painting.

 

 

 

Nana Matsumoto

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nana MATSUMOTO

 

1986   Born in Chiba, Japan

2008   Tokyo Zokei University of Arts,B.A. in Fine Arts

2009   The West of England of Art and Design(exchange), Bristol, UK

2010   Tokyo Zokei University of Arts,M.A. in Fine Arts

 

 

 

Award and Grant

2010   Tokyo Zokei Award,M.A.in Fine Art

2009   The24th HOLBEIN scholarship

2008   Tokyo Wonder Wall Award

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022   'Polyonymous' LOOP HOLE, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

2013   'Multiple Elements' gallery valuer, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

2011   'It's just flitted' ignition gallery, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan

           'It's just flitted' atelier kirigiris, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan

2010   'on the flat' gallery sakamaki, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan

2009   'Tokyo Wonder Wall 2009' Metropolitan of Tokyo, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

           'ROOTS OF ONE' TWS-Emerging2009.Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Suidobashi, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Group Exhibition

2024   'Drawing Exhibition Featuring Four Artists' HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo, Japan

2023   'Fungal Fugue" Paris Internationale (HAGIWARA PROJECTS), Paris, France, Japan

           'Fungal Fugue" HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo, Japan

2022   'Open Studio + Book Shop' studio REV, Tana, Kanagawa, Japan 

           'The 57th Kanagawa Exhibition' Kanagawa, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

           'Holbein Art Fair ' shibuya scramble square, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan

2021   'Metomato' Artist-run space Merdre, Fuchu, Tokyo, Japan

2020   'Steering along with tempo of rain' Akibatamabi21/3331 Arts Ciyoda, Sotokanda, Tokyo, Japan

2017   'Post-Formalist Painting'statments,Ebisu/Komagome soko, Komagome, Tokyo, Japan

2015   'Robo No Kaiga' Art-Lab Hashimoto, Hashimoto, Kanagawa, Japan

2014   'Field of Painiting' Tokyo Metroporitan Art Museum, Ueno, Tokyo, Japan

2010   'Art Fair in SPAZIO 01 YOGA' Tokyo-Gumi, Tokyo, Japan

           'M-polyphony'08' Zokei gallery, Hachioji, Tokyo, Japan

2009   'small selection' gallery sagamaki, Kyobashi, Tokyo, Japan

2008   'continue art project 2008' old primary school, Oshima, Nigata, Japan

           'Tokyo Wonder Wall 2008' Tokyo Contemporary Art Museum, Kiyosumishirakawa, Tokyo, Japan

           'polyphony bild/ga umarerutoki' -OME ART PROJECT2008 6th related program, Eiji Yoshikawa's memorial hall, Ome, Tokyo, Japan 

           'Fukei/ga umarerutoki' -workshop report exhibition, citizens gallery of Ome Museum, Ome, Tokyo, Japan

 

 

Open studio

'Super Open Studio' studio REV, Tana, Kanagawa, Japan (2012-)

 

 

 Selected interviews and reviews 

'Made in Mind Magazine' Interview Issue