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Architecture, pouring light, views of the Seto Inland Sea, cuisine, and minimal art by contemporary artists.
Art is one of the pleasures that Setouchi Retreat Aonagi can offer.

FRANK STELLA

Born May 12, 1936 in Boston. One of the leading minimalist artists of postwar American abstract painting. He is also a painter and sculptor. In his early years, he painted simple stripes and other symmetrical works, but since the 1980s, he has applied various colors and created twisted flat surfaces and dynamic works that burst beyond their two-dimensional borders and are neither paintings nor sculptures.

Rieko Kawabe

President of Nihon Gagei Club and Nippon Ya Kobo. Calligrapher and artist. He presides over the “Nippon Gagei Club,” a members-only organization dedicated to the promotion of Japanese culture. In 2004, he established the “Gagei Japanese Culture Exchange Fund” to promote international exchange activities and children’s workshops.

Hifumi Yutaka On o

Born in Ehime, Japan in 1981. Garden designer. Plant space designer. Shodai Shi. He is involved in gardens, landscaping, mountain restoration, plant scenography, and botanical art. He designs plantings based on the principles of nature, expressing the mythology and culture of the land, and interlinking the house, garden, town, and mountain to create a “place” where not only people but also other living creatures can coexist.

SUIKO

A graffiti artist who specializes in unique lettering with a sense of dynamism and life influenced by calligraphy, he participated in Japan’s first large-scale graffiti exhibition “X-COLOR” in 2005, and has since expanded his activities to include visits to more than 10 countries, including the United States, Germany, and France, where he has received invitations from various countries. He is the representative of “dimlight,” a graffiti store and art studio.

Maria Mitsumori

Japanese-style painter. He sometimes makes paints from scratch, one color at a time, using a millstone to grind ores and rocks into a fine powder. Having spent about half of his life overseas, he wants to express through his work a world in which a variety of things exist as they are, transcending borders. Inheriting the tradition of Japanese-style painting, he attempts to capture and visualize abstract concepts such as time and emotion, which cannot be seen physically, in a higher dimension.

tsumichara

The subject of “BANANANA X,” an art project utilizing NFT, is “Comedian,” a banana on the wall at the 2019 Art Basel Miami. The work was inspired by the fact that this mere “banana on the wall” sold for $120,000. The work was designed to juxtapose the current NFT movement with “Comedian” and to allow people to participate as participants through the NFT.

Takahiro Mizukami

Graduated from Musashino Art University in 1965, he moved to Paris in 1980 as a foreign exchange student and was accepted as a member of the Maison des Artistes, a narrowly defined association for the recognition of artists, in 1982. In 1990, he was accepted as a member of the Association des Artistes Copyrightes de Paris (A.D.A.G.P.). He was granted the National Copyright for Artists by the French Ministry of Culture and registered as an international artist.

PAUL AÏZPIRI

French painter, born in Paris. Born in Paris, he had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 1943, and since then, he has been building up his career as a figurative painter, becoming a founding member of the Salon de Jeunesse Panthure (Exhibition of Youth Paintings) in Paris in 1945. He is well known for his lithographs of still lifes, landscapes, and figures, which are characterized by a light touch and vivid colors.

CASPER

Osaka-born artist who started graffiti art in 1996, he was selected as an invited artist for “Americamura Street Light Art Project” hosted by REDBULL in 2013. 2000, he started Yamakae Art Studio and started design business. 2000, he launched FENDI project “F IS FOR FENDI” project, and snowboard medalist Ayumu Hirano’s X Games Aspen Mural Art for the MONSTER ENERGY project.