KEITA MIYAZAKI
Akara Contemporary
1983
Born in 1983, in Tokyo, Keita Miyazaki’s sculptures feature materials whose association suggests strident discord and unfamiliar visual language. Discarded car engine components are welded together and then combined with coloured origami-like folded paper and sewn felt, fashioning sculptures of contradiction and aesthetic intrigue. The juxtaposing of solid and universal materials such as metal against light and fragile paper and felt, escape formal paradigms, rather evoking a sense of post-apocalyptic reconciliation.
Signaling a formal departure from his hybrid biomorphic sculptures, some of Miyazaki’s latest body of work draws on the ‘Vanitas’ of seventeenth century Dutch painting igniting profound philosophical meditations on the transience of human existence; in response to the redundancy of our supposedly coveted industrial society, the fascination with ruins and the beauty inherent within them has informed Miyazaki’s whole practice from recuperating the relics of a defunct age to the insertion of found objects.
Miyazaki completed a PhD in craft metal casting at Tokyo University of the Arts and at the Royal College of Art. His work forms part of numerous private collections in the U.K, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan, USA, India and UAE. Museum and corporate collections include: UAE Mortimer Collection, Centre Point, Ogi Kankou, Ltd. Japan, Victoria and Albert Museum, Daiwa Foundation, Mori Arts Centre Japan, Aoyama Spiral Hall Japan, Ogi Kankou Ltd, Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture Japan, Mortimer Collection London and Centre Point London.
The artist lives and works between Tokyo and London.
Images
Exhibitions
Blooming At The End Of The World: Keita Miyazaki March 14 - April 27 , 2024
Press
Architectural Digest, March 03, 2024
Stir World, April 24, 2024
On Stage, NCPA Magazine, May 2024
