We cooperated with Shirai Yumie's exhibition "Wriggling, Breathing and Rolling" at Chikuma City Art Machikado Gallery, an art facility in Chikuma-shi, Nagano, by printing fabric for indoor decoration and outdoor soft signage.
Overview of the event
■Date: 10/6/2024～11/17/2024
■Venue: Chikuma City Art Machikado Gallery
Yashiro 2176-2, Chikuma-shi, Nagano, Japan
■Closed day: Monday/Next day of national holiday *holiday is opened
■Fee: Adult 300yen, High school students 150yen. no charge for junior high school students and younger
Print cooperated work
Fabric objects at the museum's main entrance and soft signs inside and outside the venue
Using our flagship dye sublimation transfer printer "TS330-1600," we faithfully printed out the vivid and delicate gradation of hand-drawn artwork and image signs for the venue decoration. After hearing about the image of the exhibition venue, we selected fabric materials and conducted test prints before delivering the product.
Main Entrance Partition
Main Entrance Partition
Partitions in the venue: Chikuma LINE 2024
Decorations in the venue
Soft sign in the hall: The Origin of the Deer Dance
Soft sign in front of the venue: Life In full leaf Good Place
Soft sign for staircase window
Soft sign for entrance
Entrance banner outside the venue
JV330-160, a flagship eco-solvent inkjet printer capable of high quality printing even at high speed, was used to complete output in approximately one hour. "330series" has a highly rigid chassis that has been redesigned from the ground up to ensure stable print output, even for heavy tarpaulins.
Outdoor entrance banner (width 1.8m, length 1.6m)
Outdoor banner (total length approx. 6m)
Products used
Sublimation transfer inkjet printer
Ink used: Sb410 (Bl M Y K)
Applications: Indoor soft signage, indoor decorative fabric
Eco-solvent inkjet printer
Ink used: SS21 (C M Y K Lc Lm Lk Or)
Applications: Outdoor banner sign
Chikuma Line 2024
Shirai Yumie's exhibition "Wriggling, Breathing and Rolling"
This is the first large-scale solo exhibition in about 7 years by Yumie Shirai, an artist living in Ueda-shi, Nagano. Previously, she presented "Chikuma LINE," an installation using five large round oil paintings. "Chikuma LINE 2024," a series of 10 new works created since then, will be exhibited for the first time. In addition, about 60 works including oil paintings, three-dimensional works using cloth, thread, and beads, and stage design works will be exhibited. The "School of Art Machikado Gallery Exhibition," an exhibition of works created with local children, will also be held at the same time.
Left: river runs through it Right: Mabushi Manbushi (dazzles and shimmers)
Inside: The circle of transmigration Front: Dancing, Running, Twirling
Inside left: Sokonami (internal wave) Middle: far behind Inside right: March
Left: transient Right: the sun in garden *poem by Kumiko Takahashi
Large installation "The Origin of the Deer Dance"
Exhibition of past works, etc.
Yumie Shirai
Born in Ueda-shi, Nagano, painter and artist.
From 2010 to 2021, she held the self-produced two-person exhibition "Hito no Yume" with poet Kumiko Takahashi and young architects and designers at a total of five venues.Solo exhibition "Ueda Zenten Kiko Exhibition" (Ueda City Museum of Art SANTOMYUZE) in 2017, group exhibition "VOCA Exhibition" in 2018, permanent commission Work "Todoroni ni Utsurikomu" (glass surface in Tamagawa General Branch Office, Setagaya) in 2020, etc. Exhibiting installations using large oil paintings. She also focuses on activities with local children, such as workshops for creating large works of art that take advantage of the characteristics of the location.
User profile
- NameYumie Shirai
- IndustryPainter, artist
- URLhttps://shiraiyumie.com/