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2023/7/31

Mimaki sponsored the Kodo Chijiiwa Photo Exhibition "JŪRA YURA" Commemorating 100 Years of Diplomatic Relations between Japan and Lithuania

Mimaki sponsored the Kodo Chijiiwa Photo Exhibition "JŪRA YURA" commemorating 100 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Lithuania, and the company had the honor of printing the artworks using our printers.

■Date and time: From June 29th, 2023 to September 3rd, 2023
■Venue: M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art (Google map)
       V.Putvinskio 55, Kaunas, Lithuania

■Event Details: JŪRA YURA Kodo Chijiiwa Photo Exhibition
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Organizer: M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art
Curator: Yolita Rene
Exhibiting artist: Kodo Chijiiwa
■Admission Fee: €10

"I would like to facilitate visual communication with the people of the Republic of Lithuania and strive for the exchange of perspectives and values."

This is a sentence from the first email we received from Mr. Chijiiwa.
This project was initiated by Mr. Chijiiwa, a photographer who reached out to our company.
Through "photograph" works, the project aims to establish communication with the people of the Republic of Lithuania, with whom we have maintained diplomatic relations for 100 years.
We, as a company that also has a manufacturing base in the Republic of Lithuania, empathize with this desire and collaborated with Mr. Chijiiwa's exhibition using our printing and cutting technologies.

About the Exhibition (excerpt from the press release by Mr.Chijiiwa)

In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Japan and Lithuania, the M.K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art in Kaunas proposes an exhibition plan that relates the works of Japanese photographer Kodo Chijiiwa to those of Lithuania’s most famous artist M.K. Čiurlionis.
The title of this exhibition “JŪRA YURA” is composed of two homophonic words. “JŪRA” means “sea” in Lithuanian and is pronounced “YURA”. On the other hand, “Yura” means “flicker” in Japanese. The curation is handled by Yolita Rene and the exhibition will be a dialogue centered around the common theme of sea expression by two artists belonging to different generations and cultures.

“The image of Kodo’s photographs conveys to us the vibration of nature and the eternal flow that always continues, which is close to the abstract vision of Čiurlionis’ works. Blessing water as one of the main elements, this continuous flow of life permeates Kodo’s entire work. His quiet image resonates with Čiurlionis’ visual and acoustic creations.” (Excerpt from a contribution by art historian and independent curator Yolita Rene)

The scene at the photo exhibition venue

KODO CHIJIIWA

Kodo Chijiiwa was born in 1976, in Saga, Japan and has resided in Yakushima since 2003.
In 2008, after working as an assistant of Iris Janke, Kodo had his first solo exhibition and worked as a freelance photographer in Berlin. Participated in the What’s up PHOTODOC group exhibition held at Galerie HUIT during the 2015 Arles Les Rencontres de la photographie dʼArles.
Established Yakushima Photography Festival (YPF) with French photographer Antonin Borgeaud as co-founder and Cleo Charuet as art director in 2015.
In the same year, the first Yakushima Photography Festival was held in October jointly sponsored by Japan and France at Yakushima Japan.YPF has also received many positive reviews when they exhibited the YPF gallery during : Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles 2016&2017&2018&2019. In 2019, Kodo was invited as the first artist in residence photographer of BZH PHOTO to be held at Loguivy de la Mer located in Brittany France, and exhibited in July of the same year. In 2020, Kodo was invited as an artist-in-residence artist by Art space M1997 and held the "Twinkling tableau" exhibition in September 2021. In the same month, "Dialogue with flow" held solo exhibition at Kyotographie satellite event KG + curated by Art space M1997. In April 2023, Kodo was  exhibited at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai in Shanghai, China, from the SIGMA Corporation booth. In May of the same year, exhibited at "4 REGARDS SUR LE LITTORAL" organized by BZH PHOTO at Galerie Esther Woerdhoff, Montpellier, France.

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