Gallery Miori
"Lines, Black and White"
I was born in a traditional family, with a “buke” ancestor, in Tokyo, Japan. I grew up in a traditional Japanese way, learning “Sadō” (Japanese tea ceremony), “Buyō” (traditional Japanese performing art), and “Kadō” (the Japanese art of flower arrangement). I went to both art and classical music western tradition schools as a child. So for me, it was a very natural way of daily life, touching Japanese traditional culture and a European academic education. This is probably the root of my painting.
I first worked as a jewelry designer. I was in the biggest pearl company and I had such famous clients as Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Depp and many VIPs. I received an award in the International Pearl Design Contest but I also kept working on my painting.
There was a day when I finally decided to stop jewelry design and start a career as a painter. I worked with Tomato (http://www.tomato.co.uk), and Steve, Tomato’s manager, said to me after seeing my paintings that I “should choose a career as a painter.” So I became a part of the long 1,000-year history of communication of the arts by creating my own work.
I have been trying to express the inner face of human beings through my paintings and by creating a series of work called “Fantasy in the Tangle”, “Organic”, and “Confusion”. I have tried to continue my creation even though now showing them. The process has not stopped when I finish one work — the flow of the process shows me the next one. This aggregation is the totality of the artwork. The abstraction comes from communication to this world. It becomes a visual language
“Lines, Black and White”
I have been using “Lines, Black and White”. This hasn’t been often used in western painting but it is very familiar to me as a Japanese. We can express everything through “Lines, Black and White” — even the inner face of Japanese culture. It is the inevitability of culture and history that causes me to use it in abstract expression.
I continue to create work and communicate my feelings and continue this way over a long journey.
Je suis né dans une famille traditionnelle, “Buke” en tant qu’ancêtre à Tokyo, au Japon. J’ai grandi dans un régime traditionnel japonais et j’ai également appris “Sadō (cérémonie du thé japonaise”), “Buyō (art du spectacle traditionnel japonais)”, et “Kadō” (art japonais de composition florale)”. On me dit que c’était ainsi que c’était la vie quotidienne naturelle, touchant à la culture traditionnele japonaise et l’enseignement universitaire européen, c’est la racine de ma peinture.
J’étais dans la plus grande entreprise de perles, mes clients étaient Jim Jarmusch, Johnny Depp et de nombreuses personnalités, également récompensées par le concours international de design de perles.
J’étais travaillé avec TOMATO ((http://www.tomato.co.uk) et son directeur, Steve, et j’ai décidé de prendre sa retraite d’un créateur de bijoux pour commencer une carrière de peintre. M’a dit “Tu devrais choisir une carrière de peintre” après avoir vu mes peintures.
J’ai rejoint “la très longue communication des arts dans cetter longue histoire de plus de 1000 ans” en réalisant mes oeuvres.J’essayais d’exprimer des expressions par des peintures et de faire une série d’œuvres appelés “Fantaisie dans l’enchevêtrement”, “Organique” et “Confusion”. J’ai essayé de continuer à faire mes œuvres, même en ne les montrant pas. Le processus ne s’est pas arrêté si je termine l’un de mes travaux, et le déroulement du processus me montrera le prochain. Ce sera un langage visuel qui deviendra un langage visuel.
“Lignes, noires et blanches”
J’ai été utilisé “Lignes, noires et blanches”. Nour pouvons tout exprimer par “lignes, noir et blanc” même à l’intérieur de la face dans Culture japonaise: c’est pour des rainsons inévitables de culture et d’histoire que je les utilise dans l’expression abstraite. Je continue à faire des œuvres et à les comminiquer, et je continue ce genre de long voyage.
Miori Odamaki
Organic
In her work presented in 2013,
I noticed some pantheistic hues.
The Odamaki ensemble presented solo this year offers much more to say,
while remaining in the sharpness of a more general spiritualist impregnation. I noticed first the beautiful unity of tone,
strengthened by the omnipresence of a sumptuous color, a red.
Each painting seems to me to be a small spiritual adventure emanating
from the richness of the artist’s inner world,
enriched by her observations, her reverie, perhaps
even her memories and even her obsessions.
I believe I can relate it to a great Surrealist painter less well known
than Dali or Milo, but whose work is important.
It is the Jaques Herold whose aerial,
fluids, sometimes fluctuating forms are appreciated.
Some works by Odamaki could be similar to
the automatic writing experience.
Art Critic / Roger Bouillot (France)
“Sprengeliana” Oil on Canvas 910x727mm 2017
Contemporary dance (Butoh): Daisuke Yoshimoto
[Profile]
Miori Odamaki
Musashino Art University – Department of Painting
A member of Japan International Artists Society
Work in three continents (Mainly in Europe
[Awards]
• 2018 1st place award
Salon d’Automne Japon – Japan-France
Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition
(NACT**/Tokyo, Japan)
• 2016 UNESCO’s official trophy awarded in
honor of art cultural exchange in Japan and
Egypt and national municipalities
participating in a celebration of Egyptian
history and culture at UNESCO
headquarters, Paris
• 2015 MAIMERI award
Salon d’Automne Japon – Japan-France
Multinational Contemporary Art Exhibition
(NACT/Tokyo, Japan)
[Solo Exhibitions]
• 2014 Solo section at 28e Salon
International de Paris
Le Loft Sévigné, Galerie du Marais
• 2013 / The Crouise Exhibition “Organic
Series” Gekkoso (Ginza, Tokyo)
• 2010 / Cruise Exhibition
Ichigaya Kameoka Hachimangu (Shrine /
Shinjuku, Tokyo) Mireya Gallery (Ginza,
Tokyo) / Kyo-ou-ji (Temple, Shinjuku, Tokyo
– “Collaborative Exhibition with Daisuke
Yoshimoto”) Contemporary dance (Butoh):
Daisuke Yoshimoto
• 2009 / Cruise Exhibition
Ichigaya Kameoka Hachimangu (Shrine /
Shinjuku, Tokyo) Mireya Gallery (Ginza,
Tokyo) /Daikokuten Kyo-ou-ji (Temple /
Shinjuku, Tokyo
*The name of this exhibition “Cruise” comes
from “an exhibit that lets you cruise the
galleries by ship.
[Group Exhibitions]
• 2008-2013 / [Group] CC’s Exhibition
Date: Every November
Place: Mireya Gallery (Ginza, Tokyo)
The graduates of Musashino University
founded over the factions such as Nika,
Dokuritsu, Shinseisaku, Art Culture Society,
Japan Artists Association and more.
[Exhibitions – General Public]
Miori Odamaki
Musashino Art University – Department of Painting
A member of Japan International Artists Society
Work in three continents (Mainly in Europe)
[Contact]
Miori Odamaki
https://miori-modern-art-tokyo.com
102 Maison de Y, 44 Akagi-Shitamachi,
Shinjuku, Tokyo 162-0803 Japan
Tel: 03-6325-3512
Fax: 03-6322-3568
Mail: tera@vrilconjunction.com
