ART
Special Exhibition
New works commissioned by curator Shigeo Goto for the Roka Art Project will be exhibited in each of the guest suites two times a year, from April through September for the Spring/Summer collection, and October through March for the Fall/Winter collection.
For the initial three months of each semi-annual collection, Roka’s staying guests will have the first option to purchase the works by lottery. The results will be announced on Roka’s website on June 30 and December 31, respectively. After this initial three-month period, any works not yet spoken for will be released and offered for sale to the general public for online purchasing by lottery until the show’s conclusion.
The inaugural Spring/Summer 2022 show (April 14 – September 30), features a dozen works by the Kyoto-based painter Ryo Shinagawa (b. 1987). Entitled Shin Kokin Wakashu (New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern) after the celebrated imperial anthology commissioned in 1201, this new series is Shinagawa’s personal interpretation of 12 select poems. Shin Kokin is one of the best-known works of Japanese literature, considered a crystallization of Japanese aesthetics in what was a highly poetic age. To this source material Shinagawa brings his honed technique, perceptive eye, and sense of humor.
ー Curator Shigeo Goto ー
The Roka Art Project is curated by Shigeo Goto, a professor at Kyoto University of the Arts and an editor and art producer known for his prolific projects in collaboration with such leading lights as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kishin Shinoyama, Mika Ninagawa, and many others. A visionary dedicated to the development of creative talent, he heads the Goto Lab, a correspondence school for graduate studies in art and design, as well as the A&E (Art & Edit) online salon, where he hosts sessions on how to introduce art-based thinking into business and other endeavors. Goto’s latest book, Unraveling the secrets of art, was published in Japanese in 2021.
For the initial three months of each semi-annual collection, Roka’s staying guests will have the first option to purchase the works by lottery. The results will be announced on Roka’s website on June 30 and December 31, respectively. After this initial three-month period, any works not yet spoken for will be released and offered for sale to the general public for online purchasing by lottery until the show’s conclusion.
The inaugural Spring/Summer 2022 show (April 14 – September 30), features a dozen works by the Kyoto-based painter Ryo Shinagawa (b. 1987). Entitled Shin Kokin Wakashu (New Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern) after the celebrated imperial anthology commissioned in 1201, this new series is Shinagawa’s personal interpretation of 12 select poems. Shin Kokin is one of the best-known works of Japanese literature, considered a crystallization of Japanese aesthetics in what was a highly poetic age. To this source material Shinagawa brings his honed technique, perceptive eye, and sense of humor.
ー Curator Shigeo Goto ー
The Roka Art Project is curated by Shigeo Goto, a professor at Kyoto University of the Arts and an editor and art producer known for his prolific projects in collaboration with such leading lights as Ryuichi Sakamoto, Kishin Shinoyama, Mika Ninagawa, and many others. A visionary dedicated to the development of creative talent, he heads the Goto Lab, a correspondence school for graduate studies in art and design, as well as the A&E (Art & Edit) online salon, where he hosts sessions on how to introduce art-based thinking into business and other endeavors. Goto’s latest book, Unraveling the secrets of art, was published in Japanese in 2021.
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