Stutter image (in mist or cloud, on mast or shroud), Kohei Nawa & Bruno Botella, Graphite on paper, 1027×724×34cm, 2023

We are honored to present Kohei Nawa and Bruno Botella’s ROLLING THE GRAY MUDS OF DREAM, a two-person exhibition that will take place in MtK Contemporary Art (Kyoto).
This exhibition features Nawa and Botella’s drawing experiments created together and individually. An inherent power concealed in simple materials such as graphite, ink, and paper, comes into reaction with artists’ ideas and impressions and forms a body of works that appears as living organisms undergoing perpetual cell division and attracting an anima to dwell in.
“I realized that just drawing in the middle of the night is the most fun”, Nawa and Botella admit.
Please take this opportunity to witness the series of works that lay the foundation for both artists’ oeuvres.

Exhibition text

Exhibition Period: June 16 (Fri) - July 29 (Sat), 2023
Opening Hours: 10:00 - 18:00
Closed: Sundays
Opening reception: June 16 (Fri), 2023 / 18:00 - 20:30
Venue: MtK Contemporary Art
20-1 Okazaki Minamigoshocho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture 606-8334, Japan

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BRUNO BOTELLA

Born in 1976 in Sarcelles, France, Botella graduated from the Ecole national superieure des Beaux-arts de Paris and the Cooper Union School of Arts in New York.

Major exhibitions include Maison Hermès Ginza (Tokyo, 2023) Museo Tamayo (Mexico City, 2018), Centre d’Art Neuchâtel (Neuchâtel, 2017), Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2015). His works are in the collections of Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris), Fondation Galeries Lafayette (Paris), Museo Tamayo (Mexico City) among others. Currently resides and works in Kyoto, Japan.

KOHEI NAWA

Born in 1975 in Osaka, Japan, Kohei Nawa received a PhD in Fine Art/Sculpture from Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003, and established Sandwich in 2009. He is now a professor at the Kyoto University of the Arts. Nawa has been exhibited in Museum of Contemporary Art (Tokyo , 2011), Louvre Museum (Paris, 2018), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, 2019), Pace Gallery New York (New York, 2022), Pace Gallery (Seoul, 2023). The permanent collection include the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne). Works between Kyoto and Tokyo.