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Facing the Sky, Ocean, and Kinkasan at the Edge of the Peninsula

White Road

島袋道浩 / SHIMABUKU

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Facing the Sky, Ocean, and Kinkasan at the Edge of the Peninsula 


The white road extends through the woods, up toward the sky, and to the sea. Approaching Kinkasan, at the point where waves are visible, can’t you see the birds frolicking there? That is the place to rediscover nature. (SHIMABUKU)

  • AYUKAWA
  • MADE : 2019
  • OPEN
  • PLACE : 1-5 Manjishita, Ayukawahama, Ishinomaki
  • PARKING ○

島袋道浩 / SHIMABUKU

Artist. Born in 1969 in Kobe, Japan. After living in Berlin, Germany for 12 years, Shimabuku moved to Naha in 2017 where he is currently based. From the beginning of the 1990s, he has travelled to various places in Japan and overseas, creating performances and installations that consider the daily lives and cultures of people he encounters, as well as new forms of communication. Full of poetic sentiment and humor while also inspiring people in metaphorical ways, his style has gained a worldwide reputation. Shimabuku has participated in group shows at Centre Pompidou in Paris and Hayward Gallery in London, and in numerous international exhibitions including Venice Biennale (2003, 2017), the São Paulo Biennial (2006), Havana Biennal (2015) and Lyon Biennale (2017). He also participated in the previous Reborn-Art Festival, presenting a work called Erect at Norihama in Ayukawa. Large-scale solo exhibitions are planned in 2020 throughout Europe. His work is in the collections of various art museums and art centers, including Centre Pompidou and Noveau Musee National de Monaco in Monaco. His books include Opening the Door (Little More Books), and the picture book Cucumber Journey (Shogakukan).

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Photo : Noguchi Rika

AYUKAWA AREA

Ayukawa is at the southern end of the Oshika Peninsula, about a one-hour drive from the city center. There is a spectacular sea view of Kinkasan Island, one of the three great mystical sites of Oshu (the old name of northeastern Honshu). Off the coast of Kinkasan is one of the world’s three most abundant fisheries, where the Kuroshio and Oyashio ocean currents meet, and the area once flourished as a base for whaling. "Ayukawahama Visitors Center" is scheduled to open here in 2019. "Whale Town Oshika" will open in 2020.

PERMANENT EXHIBITION

  • White Deer (Oshika)

    KOHEI NAWA

    A Stray Deer Whose Expression Changes According to the Time

    White Deer (Oshika)

    KOHEI NAWA

    Since ancient times, deer have been regarded as divine messengers or divine creatures in such beliefs as animism and Shinto. With their numbers increasing in Japan in recent years, the deer that sometimes appear in villages are called “stray deer”.(Kohei Nawa)

  • White Road

    SHIMABUKU

    Facing the Sky, Ocean, and Kinkasan at the Edge of the Peninsula

    White Road

    SHIMABUKU

    The white road extends through the woods, up toward the sky, and to the sea. Approaching Kinkasan, at the point where waves are visible, can’t you see the birds frolicking there? That is the place to rediscover nature.(SHIMABUKU)

  • room KINKAZAN

    GOZO YOSHIMASU

    The Room That a Poet Keeps Visiting

    room KINKAZAN

    GOZO YOSHIMASU

    A room on the second floor of Hotel New Sakai is an exhibition space where Gozo Yoshimasu always stayed when he came to Ayukawa to prepare for his exhibition. Here you can see these newborn poems, which he wrote while gazing out at Kinkasan, and the place where Yoshimasu created his work. (GOZO YOSHIMASU)

  • Microcosmos -Melody-

    MASUDA SEBASTIAN

    A Resplendent Piano Newly Installed in Front of the Station

    Microcosmos -Melody-

    MASUDA SEBASTIAN

    Surrounded as we are by things we cannot control, I want this work to bring color to the hearts of everyone. I hope the piano serves as a tool for different generations to communicate and allows everyone to make colorful melodies together.(Sebastian Masuda)

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