Exhibition information

The 403rd ginza graphic gallery Exhibition Yuri Uenishi
Now Printing

September 03, 2024 - October 23, 2024

Design + Photo by Yuri Uenishi
Design + Photo by Yuri Uenishi
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Yuri Uenishi’s work impresses with its strong visual messages. Her posters for the World Table Tennis Championships 2015 brilliantly capture with minimal elements on the paper dynamic instances in the rapid back-and-forth of the balls in table tennis. For the Visualized Fencing. Yuki Ota Fencing Championships 2014 project, she visualizes the energetic physicality of the fencers as well as the trajectories of the fencing foils in a way that is both scientific and beautiful. 
     Given the opportunity to reexamine herself and her design work for a solo exhibition at ginza graphic gallery this autumn, Uenishi says, “I became a designer because I wanted to surround myself with, be involved with, and live with my favorite things, and I have worked in the hope that the things I make might be important to someone else.” Truthful in every respect, she communicates the same sincerity through her designs.
     The exhibition introduces the point where Uenishi finds herself today and without embellishment. The arrangement of the graphics is straightforward with new printed matter of every size on the first floor, while the basement floor is given over to her archive of past work in the form of street posters on walls and pillars, or books arranged on shelves and racks. Visitors can share the enjoyment of her favorite things and her aesthetics, rather than simply look at an exhibition. A keen traveler, Uenishi is also showing some of her treasured objects.
     The plan is to rotate the displays on the first floor every two weeks. We hope you will enjoy this progressively varying exhibition of work by Uenishi Yuri.

Spatial Design: Ryosuke Yamamoto (ya inc.)

Venue

DNP Ginza Building 1F, B1F
7-2, Ginza 7-chome, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
TEL: 03.3571.5206  FAX: 03.3289.1389

September 3 - October 23, 2024
Open hours: 11:00am - 7:00pm  Admission free
Closed on Sundays, holiday

Publication

ggg Books 138 - Yuri Uenishi
Published by DNP Foundation for Cultural Promotion
Due out on September 3, 2024

Gallery Talk and Events

Details will be announced on the gallery website and SNS.

Yuri Uenishi

Art Director, Graphic Designer
Yuri UENISHI was born in Tokyo in 1987. She graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University in 2010, joining Dentsu in the same year. She established her own design studio, Hokkyoku, in 2021. Her work covers a broad range from posters, logos, and other stand-alone pieces, to branding and campaigns, images, spaces, books, and magazines. Past work includes the posters for the World Table Tennis Championships 2015 (TV Tokyo Corporation), The Year 2121: Futures In-Sight (21_21 Design Sight), Kohkoku brand magazine (Hakuhodo), LAFORET GRAND BAZAR SUMMER 2018 & 2019 (Laforet Harajuku), and #SHEMOVESMOUNTAINS (The North Face). Her main awards include the Tokyo ADC Award, the JAGDA New Designer Award, the JAGDA Award, the Gold Cannes Lions, the NYADC Gold Cube, and the D&AD Yellow Pencil. Uenishi’s hobbies are traveling and climbing snowy mountains. As of today, she has visited 45 countries.