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[Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore] Enjoy Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore online while at home!

2020.04.23

Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore held a contemporary artist Hiroshi Mori’s solo exhibition “MOSHA” and photographer Kotori Kawashima’s photo exhibition “Good morning, have a good time” as a main project to commemorate the third anniversary of the opening of the store. As part of this, the exhibitions were temporarily closed and these exhibitions were also closed. We will introduce the works that can not be seen at the actual store online so that you can purchase them.

Due to temporary closures, the exhibition works being held will be sold at the online store.

The actual store will be closed, but instead, we would like to propose “living with art” online and have a good time at home.
Although we are not able to visit each exhibition, we would like to propose works on the online site instead, so we hope you enjoy it.

Introduction of viewing and purchasing of works

You can view the works of Hiroshi Mori and Kotori Kawashima and many other works of art online and purchase them at the online store.

Introduction and sale of art works handled at Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore (OIL by Bijutsutecho)
>All works currently handled by Tsutaya Bookstore

Hiroshi Mori Solo Exhibition “MOSHA” Introduction and sale of works (OIL by Art Notebook)
>Hiroshi Mori Solo Exhibition “MOSHA”

Introducing and selling the work by Kotori Kawashima, “Good morning, I’m in love with you” (OIL by Bijutsu Techo)
>Kojima Kawashima “Good morning, I’m having a good time”

Ginza Tsutaya Bookstore Official Website / Official SNS Account

Exhibitions that have been suspended | Hiroshi Mori Solo Exhibition "MOSHA"

Hiroshi Mori remixes the images of subcultures and masterpieces in art history, and uses the latest technology to create works with unique textures. Mori has produced works such as the Lichtenstein × J-pop series, which remixes Roy Lichtenstein and Japanese subculture, and the Japanesque series, which remixes Japanese old paintings and anime, in this exhibition, which is a memorable solo exhibition. We are pleased to announce a new series including the new series, the Portraits series, and the Damien Hirst Parody series.

Suspended Exhibition | Kawashima Bird Photo Exhibition "Good morning

Kotori Kawashima, a photographer who is impressed by photographs that capture the moment when human innocence and honest feelings shine.
We have published a 400-page photo book that contains many unpublished works from the early career, spinning a group of photographs taken over 20 years mainly in Tokyo where I lived from the age of eight. A photo exhibition will be held to commemorate the publication.
The small pieces, taken to scoop up the emotions of the moment in everyday life, gently suggest that the beauty and tenderness that is often overlooked is overflowing in the world. This work, which was edited mainly on landscape photographs, is different from the work that has often been the leading role of people up until now, and makes a new face of the artist.

-Artist Profile-

Hiroshi Mori
Born in Tokyo in 1977. Completed the master’s course in oil painting techniques and materials at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2013.
Using parody as a technique, I am producing works that remix religious images, masterpieces of art history such as Japanese classical art and pop art, and images quoted from animation and games. The kitschy image drawn in an anime style is created by making full use of the original technique using the latest technology to create a work with a unique texture with high precision and precision.

Kotori Kawashima
photographer. Born in 1980. Studied under Motoki Numata after graduating from the Department of French Studies, Faculty of Letters, Waseda University. “BABY BABY” (2007) “Mirai-chan” (2011) “Meisei” (2014) Co-authored with Shuntaro Tanigawa “Good night Gods” (2014) “First album” (2016) “Hikari Tsukino Aino Kizashi” ( 2018), Tainan guidebook “Ai no Tainan” (2017), and painter Yosuke Kobashi x Takashima Kawashima’s work “Fly” (2019). The latest photo book is “violet diary” (2019).
Received the 42nd Kodansha Publishing Culture Award Photo Award and the 40th Kimura Ihei Photography Award.

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