HIROKO KOSHINO

Sabae City Manabe-no-Yakata will hold an exhibition entitled “Hiroko Koshino Exhibition COLORS—The World of Art and Fashion—“ by Hiroko Koshino who works at the world’s forefront with 60 years of experience. Koshino has recently expanded her work beyond that of a fashion designer to the creation of art, her lifework, and is earning praise.
 
Under the theme of “COLORS,” the colorful world of art and fashion will be displayed at the exhibition, with colorful paintings drawn by Koshino as the source of creation in the painting room and about 20 dynamic clothes presented in the past Hiroko Koshino Collection in the fashion room. Creations made in collaboration with Sabae’s local industries such as glasses, fabrics and lacquerware will also be displayed. Enjoy the world of the artist Hiroko Koshino who seeks life’s true richness and passes down art and creation to the future.

Sunday, August 5 – Sunday, September 9, 2018  9:00 am – 5:00 pm　*Open at 11:30 on Sunday, August 5
Closed: Mondays
Admission: Adults 100 yen  Children 50 yen  *For the whole museum  *Free for elementary, junior high and high school students living or studying in the city
 
Related events　
● Opening
Sunday, August 5  11:00 am –  Place: Entrance 
● Gallery talk by Hiroko Koshino
Sunday, August 5  1:30 pm –  Place: Seminar Room (exhibition entrance ticket required)  Capacity: 80 people
● Night museum
Sunday, August 5; Saturday, September 8  – 7:30 pm (last admission 7:00 pm)

Contact: Sabae City Manabe-no-Yakata
〒916-0024
1-9-20, Chosenji-cho, Sabae City
Tel.0778-51-5999　Fax.0778-54-7123
https://www.city.sabae.fukui.jp/kosodate_kyoiku/manabenoyakata/manabenoyakata.html

 
The WASYOKU SOUTEN main dining area of The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho offers contemporary Japanese (“WASHOKU”) cuisine, served on Sumi-no-Toki dishware designed by Hiroko Koshino.
During the event, you can enjoy new sushi kaiseki (course meals) with an artistic sensibility that goes beyond the borders of traditional Japanese cuisine, in a space surrounded by Hiroko Koshino's artwork. We hope you will take this opportunity to enjoy the new Japanese cuisine at Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho WASYOKU SOUTEN.
 
Dates: Friday, June 29 – Sunday, September 30, 2018
Venue: The Prince Gallery Tokyo Kioicho WASYOKU SOUTEN (35F)
Time: 5:30 pm – 10:30 pm (last order: 9:00 pm)
Price: 20,000 JPY per person
 
Contact: The Prince Gallery Restaurant Reservations, Tel: 03-3234-1136 (10:00 am – 8:00 pm, ends at 7:00 pm on Saturday, Sunday, and holidays)
https://www.princehotels.co.jp/kioicho/fair/suminotoki/
 
* Sumi-no-Toki dishware is created in collaboration between Hiroko Koshino and the long-established ceramics manufacturer, Nikko Co., Ltd.
　Sumi-no-Toki has won first place in the License Collaboration category of the Tableware International Awards of Excellence 2018.

KH Gallery Ashiya will hold the special exhibition “Kenji Etori x Hiroko Koshino”. Etori’s three-dimensional plastic works are human figures molded and shaped from human bodies using wire nets. Their emerging surface creates a vague existence. Attracted by their light atmosphere, Koshino invited Etori for collaboration. Etori who creates human outline from flat wire nets with his hand, and Koshino who has been questioning human spiritual richness through clothes—works by these two artists pursue how the surface should be and depict the inner spirit and life. 
 
In the exhibition, the installation of Etori’s human figure modeled and clothed with a light cloth by Koshino will be displayed along with their individual works. Its creation process is just like the fashion scene where she would make clothes using hands in front of a model. Drapes, twists and volume created in the hands of Koshino cover the body softly and create liveliness, and summer sunlight that shines on the concrete walls produces a dramatic atmosphere. 
Please come enjoy the collaboration by the two artists who question the human body and spirit through art and fashion.

Sunday, June 24 – Friday, August 10, 2018
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Open by reservation, no reservation required for Sundays
Reservation: [Admission Reservation Form] in “ASHIYA GALLERY” page on our website
Closed: Every Wednesday; Friday, August 3; Saturday, August 4; other event days

【HIROKO BIS】Apology and Announcements

KH Gallery Ginza will hold the exhibition “Sumi-no-Kiseki”. Sumi, or Japanese ink, is a material Hiroko Koshino is most familiar with. Since her school days when she started drawing fashion style sketches with Sumi to today, she has always worked with Sumi by her side.
The beauty of Sumi and blank space is born from the relation between Japanese paper, Sumi and water. Sumi’s flow and smudge, not always controllable, sometimes create unexpected beauty. Hiroko Koshino always found new beauty in such instantaneous works and developed them to a higher level. A strained air and gentle time—two contradictory images—coexist in traces drawn by Sumi and lead the observers to quietness. As many people in the Orient have found the mystery of the universe and human spirit in Sumi, Hiroko Koshino has been attracted to and deeply in love with the depth of Sumi.
 
At the exhibition, her past and recent artworks that feature Sumi’s rhythmic shade, smudge and beautiful thin ink will be displayed. For Hiroko Koshino, Sumi is a special material that guides one from the instant to the eternal, and to spiritual depth. Please come enjoy the refined beauty of refreshing Sumi and blank space that makes you forget the summer heat.
 
*It has been a year since the release of the Western tableware “Sumi-no-Toki” series produced in collaboration by Nikko and Hiroko Koshino. Some of the products will be available for purchase at the exhibition.

Wednesday, June 13 – Friday, August 10, 2018　10:30 am – 7:00 pm
Closed: June 17 (Sun.), July 1 (Sun.), July 15 (Sun.), July 29 (Sun.)