展示期間
DATES
2024.9.7(sat)〜2025.1.13(mon)
営業時間
OPERATING HOURS
12:00〜19:00(Last entry is 6:30pm. Closed on Wednesday.)
会場
LOCATION
Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum 8F / 9F, 5-4-1 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
ReiNaito|untitled | 2024 | flower, water, glass jar Photo: Naoya Hatakeyama
ReiNaito|Installation view “Rei Naito: come and live – go and live” at Tokyo National Museum, 2024 Photo: Naoya Hatakeyama
ReiNaito|Installation view “Rei Naito: come and live – go and live” at Tokyo National Museum, 2024 Photo: Naoya Hatakeyama
ReiNaito|color beginning/breath | 2024 | Acrylic on canvas Photo: Kenji Takahashi
Rei Naito: come and live – go and live
This autumn, the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès is pleased to present the solo exhibition “ Rei Naito: come and live – go and live “.
Rei Naito’s work consistently explores the question “Is our existence on the Earth a blessing in itself?” She views elements of nature, the humble objects and scenes of everyday life, and elusive and easily overlooked phenomena caused by changes in light, shadow, water, and air as “primordial scenes of life”. By connecting these forms within the viewer, she invites us to delve into our own states of contemplation.
This exhibition, conceived as a series of linked events, is currently on view at the Tokyo National Museum until mid-September. The schedule of the museum exhibition partially overlaps with that of the Ginza Maison Hermès Le Forum exhibition, and the event as a whole is presented so as to form a great circle by integrating various elements and themes.
The two venues are linked through an array of paintings and sculptures. Notably, the series of paintings color
beginning/breath, which the artist worked on continually in her studio from 2023 to 2024, is a moment-to-moment chronicle of the artist’s days leading up to the exhibition. It highlights the irreversibility of physical time, and forms a narrative axis connecting the two venues.
