Miwa Ogasawara is a Japanese Asian Modern & Contemporary painter who was born in 1973. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Maho Kubota Gallery have featured Miwa Ogasawara's work in the past.Miwa Ogasawara's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 73 USD to 17,258 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 2010 the record price for this artist at auction is 17,258 USD for Bildung, sold at SBI Art Auction in 2021. Miwa Ogasawara has been featured in articles for Art Asia Pacific and ARTFORUM. The most recent article is New Horizons: Highlights at Tokyo Gendai written for Art Asia Pacific in July 2023.
In a vibrant atmosphere, the inaugural edition of Tokyo Gendai (東京現代) opened from July 6 to 9 at Pacifico Yokohama, a major convention center in the coastal town near Tokyo.
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..Frequently occurring motifs in Ogasawara's art include white, empty spaces, windows, mirrors, and curtains, symbolizing the inner world of the mind cut off from the outside world...
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..The distant places filled with light or deep shadows depicted in Ogasawara's art are merely the entrances to the inner world of the individual, beyond which expands a space of unfathomable thought...
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..Aside from considering existential questions, such as „who are we“ and „how do we live,“ the artist is concerned with making visible natural, political, ecological, and social contradictions and the fragility...
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