Exhibition
Fumiaki Aono
Born in Sendai, Miyagi, 1968; lives and works in Sendai. Since 1991, Aono has consistently pursued the underlying theme of "Mending: Regeneration and Circulation." By collecting discarded objects, debris, and fragments from vacant lots, coastlines, and urban spaces, he uses their missing parts and traces of former use as clues to "mend" and restore them. Through joining and recombining disparate items, he confronts the memories of others, bestows new forms upon these materials, and seeks to draw out the lingering spirit embedded within each object. Around 2004, he began expanding his practice to include "Mending and Substitute Assembly," utilizing mass-produced items such as readymade furniture. Having personally experienced the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Aono shifted his focus intensively toward "mending" objects damaged and broken by the tsunami. Through this practice, he pursues a concept of "Comprehensive Restoration" —a multifaceted approach incorporating disaster, history, locality, memory, and narrative.
Exhibitions
Born in Sendai.
Completed the Education Course of Fine Arts at Miyagi University of Education.
“Workshop Wood, Ki・Ki・Ki” at Rias Arc Museum of Art. (Kesennuma, Miyagi)
“Restoration・Unrelated - Related” at Gallery Maki Tamura. (Tokyo)
“Art Miyagi” at the Miyagi Museum of Art. (Sendai, Miyagi)
“Aono Fumiaki Exhibition” at Rias Arc Museum of Art. (Kesennuma, Miyagi)
“Exhibition of the Sublime and the Labour” at Itabashi Art Museum. (Tokyo)
“VOCA – The vision of the Contemporary Art. -- The New Generation Artists of the Plane Work” at the Ueno Royal Museum. (Tokyo)
“Fantasy and Visual Hallucination・Mixture Area and Area Invasion” at the Hiratsuka Museum of Art. (Kanagawa)
“Today's Japanese Contemporary Art Exhibition. --Coexisted Art--” at Wooduck Gallery (Seoul, South Korea), Embassy of Japan in Korea, Silk Gallery (Seoul, South Korea), Kyoto Art Center (Kyoto)
“Imagination from Creating. --From the Plane Art--” OPEN STUDIO at the Miyagi Museum of Art. (Sendai, Miyagi)
“N.E.blood 21 Vol.28 AONO FUMIAKI” at Rias Arc Museum of Art. (Kesennuma, Miyagi)
“Law of the Life・Three Books to Read the Life” at Ashikaga Museum of Art. (Ashikaga, Tochigi)
“Art Show of Iwate Prefecture Public Hall. Vol.3” at Iwate Prefecture Public Hall, Ishii Kenreitei. (Morioka, Iwate)
“Aono Fumiaki Exhibition Scull Cup” at Gallery TURNAROUND. (Sendai, Miyagi)
“Aizu・Art Festival of Urushi. --Yell to Tohoku--” (Aizu-Wakamatsu, Kitakata, Fukushima)
“Work Shop. --What is the Restoration?--” at Shimane Museum of Art. (Shimane)
Aono Fumiaki Exhibition “Scull Cup・II. -- Others Characteristics and Inevitability --”
“Talking Event・Sawaragi Noi × Aono Fumiaki” at Gallery TURNAROUND. (Sendai, Miyagi)
Aono Fumiaki Exhibition “Reincarnation. -- Each Surface of the Earth・Outflow・Transplant --” at SARP. (Sendai, Miyagi)
Artist in Residence, VERMONT STUDIO CENTER. (USA)
“Play with Nature, Played by Nature” at Satoshi Koyama Gallery. (Tokyo)
“Aichi Triennale 2013. --Awakening--. --Where are we standing?--”, “Place, Memory, and Resurrection” (Nagoya, Aichi, and others)