Date＝October 23（Thu.）～27（Mon.）, 2025
Location＝Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1
（No.5, Sec. 5, Xinyi Rd., Xinyi Dist., Taipei City 110, Taiwan）
BOOTH No. B29
SVIP Preview 2025/10/23 (Thu) 12:00-21:00
VIP Preview 2025/10/23 (Thu) 15:00-21:00
2025/10/24 (Fri) 11:00-14:00
Public Opening 2025/10/24 (Fri) 14:00-19:00
2025/10/25 (Sat) 11:00-19:00
2025/10/26 (Sun) 11:00-19:00
2025/10/27 (Mon) 11:00-18:00
In ART TAIPEI 2025, we will present and exhibit the works of the artists, ANDO Tadao, Ay-O, SATO Kengo, NIZOE Marina and TSURI Mitsuho.
We believe that a good architect is an “artist” who designs spaces for people to live in. In this exhibition, we will introduce drawings and prints by architects who create spaces that stimulate the human spirit just by standing there, or who dream of such spaces even if they are not actually realized in architecture.
ANDO Tadao (b. 1941), one of the Japan’s leading architects, has been creating a series of beautiful undressed concrete buildings and earns worldwide acclaim for his designs that manipulate lights and shadows. He is also well known in Taiwan, where he designed the “Asia University Museum of Modern Art” (completed in 2013), and where his solo exhibition “Tadao Ando: A Continuing Challenge” was held in 2022 at the Jut Art Museum. ANDO also makes drawings and prints, and we have published his print editions as well.
SATO Kengo (b. 1989) is one of the most active young architects, having been selected in the competition for the 2025 Osaka Kansai Expo and involved in the design of a “Satellite Studio” for TV stations there. While based on a farming village in Fukushima Prefecture in Japan, he is also engaged in architectural design and construction in the Bengal region in India, and is developing a diverse range of activities based on his own experiences of mobility. On the other hand, he consistently produces pinhole cameras made of wood and steel. He uses that camera to take long-exposure photographs and also presents photographic works.
Ay-O (b.1931), called the Rainbow Artist, was an early participant and core member of “Fluxus” movement that revolutionized contemporary art under the leadership of George Maciunas after going to the United States. Fluxus was characterized by the participation of various field artists like music, poetry, and dance and fine arts. He often held performances called “event” with members Nam June Paik, ONO Yoko, and others. Ay-O makes all objects/ images are deconstructed and then reconstructed in rainbow colors. He is acclaimed internationally, a large-scale exhibition “Ay-O：Hong Hong Hong” was held at M+ (Hong Kong) in 2023 and “Ay-O: A Rainbow Frenzy” is currently being held at the Mayor’s Residence Art Salon (organized by Hiro Hiro Art Space) in Taiwan. In this exhibition, we present Ay-O’s rainbow oil paintings, tapestries, and prints.
NIZOE Marina (b. 1993) is an artist devoted to the study and revival of Ryukyuan painting. She is based on Okinawa as a Ryukyuan painter. Her interest is that the flower-and-bird paintings influenced by China in Ryukyuan painting often included auspicious combinations of flowers and birds imported from China, and that they were painted to express people’s wishes. She attempts tradition and innovation by positively adopting the painting techniques of Ryukyuan paintings and creating traditional auspicious subjects as paradise painted in modern Ryukyuan paintings.
TSURI Mitsuho lives in Kanazawa, where traditional crafts are flourishing. She is an up-and-coming ceramic artist who uses familiar shapes and ancient pottery forms such as earthenware and Sueki (unglazed earthenware) as motif, and expresses them as if they were knitted, using the traditional ceramic technique called “Tebineri”. The brightly colored pieces, made of long, thin pieces of clay, are soft and gentle, as if they were made of wool yarn, even though they are ceramics. TSURIi’s ceramic works will be presented in which she has taken on new challenges, such as utilizing the change in shape that bends under its own weight when fired, and using the technique inspired by the traditional Japanese confectionery “Kintaro candy” in her ”Tebineri” ceramic works.
We would like to exhibit a combination of new and old works by the artists and take this opportunity for them to be widely recognized.