Mirage (a sprite from a distant land)　

Size: H 31.8㎝ x W 41㎝ x D 3㎝

Material: Oil on panel

Year: 2026

Edition: Unique

Framing: none

Certificate: ◯

Sign: ◯

Price: ¥44,000 (tax included)

Sales period: 2026/5/24 (Sun) until 23:00 [first-come-first-served basis]

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GALLERY ROOM A, a commercial gallery operated by the art communication platform ArtSticker, will hold a solo exhibition “Road Mirage (near and far water)” by Gunji from 2026/4/25 (Sat).
This exhibition is Gunji's first solo exhibition after graduating from university, and it is positioned as an extension of his work up until now.

Using his own inner “miniature garden” as a motif, Gunji has cut out fragments of relationships and conversations between the people appearing there like snapshots and expressed them as paintings. Using the downtown area of the city as the original landscape, it depicts themes such as momentary human patterns and love for neighbors.

In this exhibition, we will present a group of new works interspersed with motifs evocative of Tokyo and images of distant foreign countries, set in the “fantastic landscape reminiscent of a desert,” which was also drawn in his graduation work. The title “Road Mirage” comes from “running water,” and it symbolizes the gap between distance and perception, like a statue that gets closer and farther away.
The term “near and far water” is superimposed on blood and water flowing through one's own body and that flowing into the body of another person far away. Even though they are separated by a distance where they cannot be touched, they may share their senses somewhere ____. This kind of relationship quietly unfolds in the work.

Please take a look at this exhibition, which questions the distance and connection between self and others through fragments where images of different distances intersect.

Signed on the back of the work

This work will be on view at GALLERY ROOM A, a commercial gallery in Asakusa, as part of the solo exhibition “Road Mirage (near and far water),” held from April 25 (Sat) to May 25 (Sun), 2026.

Gunji's new solo exhibition “Road Mirage (near and far water)”

Dates

(Sat) 25th April, 2026 - (Sun) 24th May, 2026

Hours
08:00 - 23:00

Closed

Open every day during the exhibition(Open on public holidays)

Admission
free

Venue
GALLERY ROOM A

Address

2-16-5 Honjo, Sumida-ku, Tokyo 130-0004 KAIKA TOKYO by THE SHARE HOTELS 1F STORAGE 1

Access

8 minutes on foot from “Asakusa Station” on the Toei Asakusa Line

9 minutes on foot from “Honjo Azumabashi Station” on the Toei Asakusa Line

9 minutes on foot from “Kuramae Station” on the Toei Oedo Line

Website

https://www.thesharehotels.com/kaika/

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/galleryrooma_artsticker