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Tokyo 150-0001 JAPAN
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Exhibitions

Marius Bercea

Installation view, artwork: Marius Bercea

MAKI Gallery is pleased to present Shadow of Others, a solo exhibition by Romanian artist Marius Bercea, at Omotesando, Tokyo. Bercea’s work merges contrasting perspectives, creating a space where fiction and reality, glamour and fragility, memory and oblivion intersect, posing questions that function both as a historical reflection and an autobiographical journey.

In Shadow of Others—a painting that lends its name to the exhibition—the artist contemplates Romania’s historical position on the periphery, navigating its shifting relationships with dominant global powers. Figures in the painting appear to enjoy a seaside setting, yet plants and sunshades partially obscure them, their forms blending into the landscape.

For Bercea, painting is an ongoing daily practice, fueled by a continuous encounter with art history, literature, cinema, music, and travel. His work, the result of constant exploration in his creative laboratory, embodies the boundless possibilities of his chosen medium and navigates between socio-political concerns and personal experiences. We warmly invite you to experience this compelling meditation on history, memory, and identity, thoughtfully articulated by Bercea’s evocative and multilayered visual language.
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Shiori Tono

Installation view, artwork: Shiori Tono

MAKI Gallery is pleased to present Oita-based artist Shiori Tono’s solo exhibition Nandemonai at Tennoz, Tokyo.

Nandemonai—meaning “ordinary” or “trivial” in Japanese—features a collection of paintings based on photographs Tono took of fleeting, unassuming scenes from her immediate surroundings. A Christmas cake shared at her part-time job; potted plants quietly sitting unnoticed as time goes by; eucalyptus leaves glistening in the sunlight—none of these are dramatic subjects, yet it is their very subtlety that imbues them with a precious tenderness.

By meticulously painting the ephemeral vignettes she encounters, Tono creates a multitude of images that seem to shift and evolve alongside the flow of time, heightening our awareness of the here and now. Her works gently illuminate overlooked moments and carefully retrieve memories on the verge of fading into oblivion. We invite you to immerse yourself in them as you pause and contemplate the lingering vestiges of days gone by.
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Takuro Tamura

Installation view, artwork: Takuro Tamura

MAKI Gallery is pleased to present Uncertain Romance, Japanese artist Takuro Tamura’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, at Tennoz, Tokyo. The show features a new body of work inspired by board games, specifically the Game of Life; Tamura makes dramatic alterations to its well-known motifs, transforming them into arresting, enigmatic metaphors for the complexities of human experience.

The artist takes the Game of Life’s iconic game pieces and expands their size and quantity to an absurd scale. The Nomadic Pegs are massive versions of the plastic pegs used in-game to represent individual people. The Flagment series comprises almost 200 stylized flag sculptures, each painted in a unique combination of colors. In Whence? How? Whereto?, the board game’s colorful winding tracks are jumbled into convoluted masses with no beginning or end in sight, with a roulette wheel that continues to spin for eternity. While the original Game of Life lays out predetermined paths with specific goals and achievements for the player, Tamura’s interpretation embodies how the real world, particularly our information-inundated society, is open to an infinite number of trajectories that can change at any moment.

The artist detaches familiar objects from their intended functions, even rendering them completely useless at times, as he challenges the viewer to shed their preconceived notions of the universe. Though his work boldly criticizes contemporary society—questioning its structures, norms, and assumptions—it also earnestly encourages us to find wonder and fascination in the unpredictability of our existence.
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