Baguette Girl

by Shintaro Miyake

Sheet Size: H10xW9.6xD0.4in (H25.5xW24.5xD1cm)
Frame Size: not Framed

Year: 2013
Edition: original
Medium: color pencil, pencil on paper mounted on wood
Signed on the back
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Shintaro Miyake created this artwork along with his exhibition "Sitting on a Chair, Eating Bread" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery (Dec 2013 - Jan 2014). It was his existential fear, along with other personal experiences, that inspired the drawings at this exhibition. He first pondered on the act of eating bread when he was in the depths of an artist's slump. One day, he ate a piece of bread in his studio, which was unusual for him; he usually favors other snacks, such as onigiri (rice balls). While eating this piece of bread and thinking about how life is full of misery, he realized that people eat even when things are really bad.

After he completed several bread drawings for this exhibition, he asked his Twitter followers what other kinds of bread he should draw. In response to his tweet, someone asked him to draw sandwiches. This idea appealed to Miyake. He looked up sandwich fillings, weights and prices, and created some seriously large sandwiches.

To know more, read our exhibition report.

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Shintaro Miyake "Sitting on a Chair, Eating Bread" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery Sep. 09, 2014 [Exhibition] What could be more welcoming than a roomful of smiling faces gathered around freshly-baked bread and delicious-looking sandwiches? Perhaps an art gallery in Tokyo on a cold winter day displaying drawings of various bread and people eating them. Tokyo artist Shintaro Miyake's exhibition "Sitting on a Chair, Eating Bread" at 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery offered such winter respite.

	Interview with Koyama, gallerist of Tomio Koyama Gallery Mar. 07, 2013 [Interview] Opened his own gallery in 1996, Tomio Koyama has been one of the most important gallerists, especially known as bringing Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara to the world wide audience. Through the interview, he told us the importance of doing what others are not and having your own way of thinking.