The Kinan Art Week Executive Committee is implementing this year’s art project “Orange Collective” on the theme of orange, a local resource in the Kinan region of Wakayama Prefecture, and will hold the “Mikan Mandala Exhibition” from Thursday, October 6th to Sunday, October 16 (Sun) October 2022 for 11 days at several locations in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture.
The overall theme of the exhibition is ‘Orange Mandala’. Together with contemporary artists, the exhibition explores the junction between oranges, which have not been talked about much, and other fields such as art, mythology, philosophy, anthropology, botany and design, to create a new collective knowledge (mandala) with a cosmic scope, such as that found in Kumano by the leading philosopher, Minakata Kumagusu. Each exhibition venue will have an exhibition theme and curated artworks. In addition to new works by various artists, works by leading Asian artists from the collection of the AURA Contemporary Art Foundation will also be invited.
Location: SOUZOU
The exhibition features works from the collection ofAURA Contemporary Art Foundation, focusing on the ecology of fungi and plants to which Minakata Kumagusu turned his attention, as well as on the symbiosis between nature and people.
