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Noe Aoki has chosen iron as her material. While her sculptures often exceed 2 metres in height, together with the surrounding space and light they seem to sway freely, defying gravity as they do so. In order to cut thin strips from large iron plates, Aoki melts and welds the iron to make sculptures that overflow with softness and warmth.
In 1997 Aoki made a series of etchings at Edition Works entitled Kumogaki andKameike-Hasuike (Turtle Pond, Lotus Pond). Then in 1998 she made the mezzotint seriesSuikan (Water Crown). 1999 brought more colourful works with the woodblock seriesKusudama .
In 2000 she had a major solo exhibition at Tokyo's Meguro Art Museum (23 November-12 December 2000) where she showed her new sculptures collectively entitled Kanten, as well as her etchings of the same title.
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SUITEN
2007
12 etchings / large etching
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KANTEN (English)
2000
10 etchings
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SUIKAN (English)
1998
10 mezzotints
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| Related news |
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Noe Aoki's new prints at Kagoshima (Prints Work, Exhibition ) |
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Noe Aoki's new prints at Art zone Kaguraoka (Prints Work, Exhibition ) |
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Noe Aoki's new prints at Ikeda Bijutsu Gallery (Prints Work, Exhibition ) |
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Noe Aoki making woodblocks |
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| Biography |
1958
1981
1983
1997
2000
2003
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Born in Tokyo
Graduates from Musashino Art University (major: sculpture)
Completes graduate study, Musashino Art University (major: sculpture)
The 9th Ringa Art Promotion Prize (creation section)
The 50th Minister of Education's Choice: New Artist Prize
The 33rd. The Teijiro Nakahara Prize for Excellence
The 20th Exhibition of Contemporary Japanese Sculpture: Shimonoseki City Art Museum Prize
Currently lives in Tokyo |
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| Selected Solo Exhibitions |
1994
1995
2000
2001
2003
2004
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Shiseido Gallery Annual '94, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori
Nizayama Forest Art Museum,Toyama
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| Selected Prints Exhibitions |
1997
1998
1999
2000
2002
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<Kumogaki><Kameike> AKIRA IKEDA GALLERY,Tokyo
<Suikan> VIEWING ROOM,Yotsuya,Yumiko Chiba Associates
<Kusudama> Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu,Tokyo
<Kanten> Gallery Ikeda Bijutsu,Tokyo
<Kanten> special version for Solo exhibition and various series at Meguro Museum of Art
ART DOCUMENT KANAZ 'Three Spirits in Forest': Kanaz Forest of Creation, Fukui
TRACES, IMPRINTS AND TALES: Contemporary Japanese Artists in Helsinki, Finland
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
1986
1988
1989
1990
1992
1995
1998
1999
2001
2002
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6th Hara Annual, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
7th Parallelism in Art, Ohara Kaikan Hall, Tokyo
Europaria 1989: Japan in Belgium, Open Air Museum of Sculpture, Middelheim, Belgium
Iron Sculpture: Chiba '89City and Man, Conversation with Iron, Makuhari Messe and environs, Chiba
The Game of Manners: Japanese Art in 1990, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Gallery, Ibaraki
Metal Sculpture Today: Iron, Steel, & Stainless Steel, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
Allegory of Seeing-1995: Painting and Sculpture in Contemporary Japan, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
Inside/Outside: Japanese Contemporary Sculpture by Eight Artists, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Setoda Biennale V, Town of Setoda, Hiroshima
Tsubaki-kai, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo (also '02,'03,'04)
Vibration-Expressive Power of Sculpture, Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi
Noe Aoki, Akiko Ikeuchi, Gallery Article, Koln, Germany
Power of Art, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Kids Art World 2002, Takko-cho, Aomori
The Reason Why She Creates; Works of 5 Female Artists Nagano Prefectural Shinano Art Museum
Five Figures-Presentation for Nature, Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Aomori Contemporary Art Center, Aomori
Isetan, Sagamihara Branch, Kanagawa
Kinki Nippon Railway Co., Ltd., Osaka
Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima
Meguro Museum, Tokyo
National Museum of Art, Osaka
Nagoya City Art Museum
Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
Oita Art Museum
Shiseido
The Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance Co., Ltd.
Town of Setoda, Hiroshima
Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Tochigi |
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| Kanten I |
Kanten II |
Kameike-Hasuike
Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art |
photo：Tadasu Yamamoto
（Kanten I,II） |
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