Co-organized Program | ART OSAKA in PARCO Re:SPEC— The DNA of the ’90s and a Multilayered World

Dates: April 24 (Fri) – June 22 (Mon), 10:00–20:00 ※Open during the venue’s opening hours.
Venue: Shinsaibashi PARCO, 1F, 2F, 3F, 14F PARCO Wall Gallery [MAP]
Organized by: Association for the Promotion of Contemporary Art in Japan (APCA)
Co-organized by: Shinsaibashi PARCO

Artists: Nakasako Rie (BEAK 585 GALLERY), Yamada Sayo (gekilin.), Yamada Chihiro (Gallery Nomart)

Following last year’s inaugural edition, this is the second collaboration between Art Osaka and Shinsaibashi PARCO. With the theme “Re:SPEC,” it features three emerging artists who reinterpret and update perspectives from 1990s art for the present day. Their distinct practices converge within the PARCO space, opening up unexpected points of connection.

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■□ Artists ■□

Nakasako Rie / BEAK 585 GALLERY

Born in Osaka Prefecture. Received her M.F.A. in Oil Painting from the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts in 2023. Her work explores the theme of the body in sync with consciousness, utilizing watercolor, oil paint, and clay. Major solo exhibitions include “That ‘k’—I’ve Forgotten How to Pronounce It” (gallery ami-kanoko, Osaka, 2024) and “The Body, Smooth Like Water” (gallery morning, Kyoto, 2025). Major group exhibitions include “it’s gonna be awesome” (YOD gallery, Osaka, 2022), “STILL” (BEAK 585 GALLERY, Osaka, 2025), and “QUALIA FO(U)RMS” (hatoba gallery, Kyoto, 2025). Received the Mayor’s Prize at the Kyoto City University of Arts Exhibition in 2021 and the Incentive Prize at the same exhibition in 2023.

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Yamada Sayo / gekilin.

She uses silkscreen techniques and hand-colors her works, relying on serendipity. She pursues an expression that overlaps layers of paint and printmaking.
She regularly draws drawings. She scans them to create manuscripts, then incorporates any blemishes that may have appeared during the process and applies them to the prints. This allows her to create a harmony between static lines and dynamic colors.
This process values the chance element of manual work, expressing the moment when calculated printing and free-flowing coloring intersect. The intricate shapes of silkscreen printing combine with the one-of-a-kind impression of monotype printing to create works that exude visual rhythm and layers.
The printing block is a kind of copy-paste, and she values the multiplicity of printing blocks by using the same block in completely different works.
The drawings she regularly draws from often resemble small parts that blend motifs from everyday life with the artist’s own ideas of life, making it a process that repeatedly draws attention to the corners of her consciousness.

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Yamada Chihiro / Gallery Nomart

Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1994. Chihiro Yamada is a painter who depicts motifs that usually go unnoticed—such as the details of wounds or animal remains—as well as landscapes from memory, rendered with light, airy colors and brushstrokes that evoke a translucent texture. Her paintings, which seem to challenge conventional ways of seeing and perceiving the world, resonate widely not only for their unique perspective but also for the way they reflect her mode of thought: observing things from every possible angle without prejudice and elevating them into something irreplaceable.
She graduated in 2016 from the Oil Painting Program, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts. In the same year, she participated in the Antalya International Art Symposium (Turkey). Major exhibitions include “SF” (solo exhibition, Gallery Nomart, Osaka, 2026); “LET’S GET BACK” (solo exhibition, Former Ueda Residence, a Registered Tangible Cultural Property of Japan, Kyoto, 2025); “Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2023” (recipient of the Mainichi Newspapers Award, Kyoto Cultural Museum, Kyoto, 2023); “U30 – Whom do you suspect?” (Gallery Nomart, Osaka, 2020); and “Connect / Be Connected” (Kyoto City University of Arts Gallery @KCUA, Kyoto, 2020), among others.

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■□ Gallery Information ■□

BEAK 585 GALLERY

Regardless of age, gender, or nationality, we introduce artists whom I personally believe in and admire.
From among them, I hope to nurture as many artists as possible who can go on to build active careers on the international stage.
To achieve this, we aim not to work as a single gallery alone, but to engage and collaborate with other galleries, collectors, and art professionals, creating a broader network of support around our artists.

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gekilin.

I will pursue contemporary Japanese culture and art scene.
And with the young artists we will head to the world and the future.

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Gallery Nomart

Since 1989, Nomart has been invariably creating, exhibiting, and selling works together with artists of different fields for over 35 years. Those artists include Hideki Kimura and Kenji Uematsu who represent Kansai art scene with their long and prolific careers, Hajime Imamura and kodai Nakahara who go their own ways with unique and ingenious creation styles and Kohei Nawa who has been highly acclaimed internationally.

We hold a studio of printing (Nomart Editions), a gallery of contemporary art (Gallery Nomart), a studio for design and editing (Nomart Graphics), and one for experimental art and sound ― where we have been developing our own style of expression and creation while based on the concept of “SENSES COMPLEX – All the senses are intertwined in creation”.