[Nara/Oji] “Oji Town Art Festival 2024” will be held!

Oji Town Art Festival 2024

The “Oji Town Art Festival” will be held for the third time starting in 2021. Please feel free to experience the atmosphere that you can't usually feel at this Oji Temple, which combines "Darumaji Hojo" and "Art", which is a designated cultural property of Nara Prefecture.

Date/time

February 23, 2024 (Friday) - March 10, 2024 (Sunday) 10:00 - 16:00

place

Darumaji Hojo (2-1-40 Honmachi, Oji-cho, Kitakatsuragi-gun, Nara Prefecture)

Content

During the period, the works of four artists will be exhibited inside the Hojo.

1. Ms. Setsuka Kawahara

Born in 1997, graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts, Department of Art, Major in Conceptual Design. Influenced by the animation techniques and expressions of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, he creates animation films using paper cutouts. In the commercial field, he is also expanding the scope of his activities, such as being in charge of music videos, anime endings, and special scenes for animated movies.

2. Mr. Takahiro Sagawa

Completed major course at Osaka College of Arts. He deals with phenomena related to human emotions through a variety of expressions, including three-dimensional works that resemble pop-up letters in manga, performance, communication, and sculpture. Having experienced outdoor exhibitions at Rokko Meets Art and Rokko Shidare Observation Deck Shidare Museum, in recent years he has been exploring worship art that combines interactivity and prayer.

3. Ms. Yukari Sato

Graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (currently Kyoto University of Arts). After working as a graphic designer at an advertising production company, since 2018 he has been working between art, illustration, and design. In the same year, he encountered clay figurines at a Jomon exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum, and was fascinated by the Jomon people's way of life and the primitive charm of clay figurines, and began drawing them as his life's work.

4. Ms. Ai Degaito

Ceramist. Born in Nara Prefecture in 1997. He expresses his inner environment through the organic shapes created by hand-forming and the precise temperature control during firing in a kiln. The glaze prepared from ash and stone is unique. On-site workers will travel to AIRs in various locations and actively interact with local residents while preparing and firing the soil.

Admission fee

free

Related Sites

Oji Town Tourism Association Homepage