Shiseido's "Hanatsubaki" web edition introduces "EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow," a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, which will open in November, and features an interview with Eugene Kangawa. This is the second part of a series of articles.

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“EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow," a solo exhibition by EUGENE STUDIO, is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Eugene Studio, which also held the solo exhibition "THE EUGENE Studio 1/2 Century later." at the Shiseido Gallery in 2017, is the artist studio of Hiroto Samukawa based in Japan, and this exhibition is the youngest ever at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo and the youngest ever born after This is his first solo exhibition as an artist. This exhibition makes him the youngest artist ever to hold a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and the first artist born after the Heisei era.

EUGENE STUDIO's vision of the future world and society through the medium of art. In Part 1, we asked Eugene Kangawa, who continues to present works of art without being bound by stereotypes, about his thoughts on "art". In the second part, we asked him about the highlights of this exhibition and about "symbiosis," which is also the theme of the exhibition.

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"...For two years now, I have been trying to limit information on the web to no more than 5 minutes a day. Using application and screen-time restriction programs...only my partner knows the deactivation password. ...... the only sources of information are a few newspaper apps, a combined total of 5 minutes. Of course, I use messenger, maps, weather forecasts, etc. ..."

"...And recently, I found that 'when a person's gaze is distant or unfocused, the brain begins a movement called imagination' - the movement of the eyes when they are unfocused is the brain's way of prompting 'imagining' ...... this was one of the discoveries that I made. I noticed this when I was looking at my own work. For example, when I try to see the horizon, the sky beyond, or the shadows of a forest, my mind works to imagine what is coming, because I don't know what will come when I try to see it. Maybe that's how the abstract condition actually works. Since ancient times. ..."
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