Tomonari NAKAYASHIKI × Takayuki MITSUSHIMA〈The Ones Who See〉

Tomonari Nakayashiki was born in Osaka in 1977 and currently lives in Kyoto City. graduated from Kyoto Seika University’s Oil Painting Course in the Faculty of Fine Art in 2000, and in 2007 won the Jury Prize at the Toyota Art Exhibition ‘07 (Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and art fairs in Japan, as well as in Korea, Taiwan, the UK, and France. In recent years he has incorporated masking tape as a medium alongside paint, creating paintings with unique collage-like layers and textures.

Takayuki Mitsushima was born in Kyoto in 1954. At the age of ten lost his sight. After graduating from the Department of Philosophy in the Faculty of Letters at Otani University, he opened an acupuncture clinic. While continuing his work as an acupuncturist, in 1992 he began creating clay sculptures, and in 1995 began creating “palpable paintings” using drafting tape and adhesive vinyl. He won the Grand Prize and Silver Prize at the ’98 Art Paralympic in Nagano. In recent years he has been exhibiting relief artworks that express the shape of the city through a series of nails hammered into panels at different angles and elevations.