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能における舞台の説明図をモチーフにした、「SADO ISLAND NOH THEATRE CLUB」ロングスリーブTシャツ。
シャルル・ムンカがデザインした一枚で、能舞台の構造や動きの関係性が読み取れる舞台図が印象的です。
売上の一部は、佐渡島内の能舞台の保全活動へ寄付されます。
文化をまとう一枚。
TAACHIにて販売しています。
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A long-sleeve T-shirt inspired by a diagram of the Noh stage, “SADO ISLAND NOH THEATRE CLUB.”
Designed by Charles Munka, this piece features a striking stage diagram that reveals the structure and movement relationships within the Noh stage.
A portion of the proceeds will be donated to support the preservation of Noh stages on Sado Island.
A piece that lets you wear culture.
Available at Taachi.
#佐渡島 #sadoisland #noh #exhibition
Your dream is over. Day has come.
Last night you heard the autumn rain;
This morning all that is left
Is the wind in the pines,
The wind in the pines.
— Matsukaze
In the Noh theatre tradition, the stage itself is the site of return: the same gestures performed across centuries, in the same spaces, before the same pine-painted backdrop.
The plays themselves often tell of spirits who cannot leave, drawn back to the place where something was left unfinished, unfelt, unseen. The stage holds what the body could not.
Scenes, a new series of work by Charles Munka, brings together a group of paintings that extend the visual language first developed in the Holloways series (2025), channeling movement notation systems found in Noh theatre manuals.
For Scenes, Munka introduces a new material dimension to his practice with works made with paint mixed with the same rice bran used by local communities to scrub and maintain the surfaces of the island’s ancient Noh stages.
Into this ground, worked at the precise moment before the mix fully dries, he traces single lines selected from Noh manuals: one unbroken gesture, unrepeated and unrevised.
The result is simultaneously record and residue, notation and dissolution.
Sado Island is home to approximately thirty surviving Noh stages, the largest concentration anywhere in Japan, and a legacy of the island’s long history as a place of exile, devotion, and cultural transmission.
Many of these stages are now maintained by ageing local communities with diminishing resources.
A portion of proceeds from the sale of works in Scenes will be donated directly to these communities in support of ongoing stage preservation.
Charles Munka has lived and worked on Sado Island since 2018.
Scenes is his third exhibition to emerge from sustained engagement with Sado’s stages and their communities.
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TAACHI GALLERYでは、シャルル・ムンカの新作シリーズ《Scenes》を2026年4月5日から5月15日まで開催します。本展は、2025年の《Holloways》シリーズで確立された視覚言語を発展させた絵画群を集めた展覧会です。能の稽古本に記された運動記譜システム——その線、矢印、そして様々な記号——を抽象化し、色彩の場へと変容させた作品が展示されます。
TAACHI GALLERY (53-1 Ryotsu-Ebis, Sado, Niigata) presents Scenes, a new series by Charles Munka, on view from April 5 to May 15, 2026.
This exhibition brings together a group of paintings that further develop the visual language established in the 2025 Holloways series. Inspired by the movement notation system found in Noh rehearsal books—lines, arrows, and symbolic marks—these elements are abstracted and transformed into fields of color.
#sadoisland #Sado #exhibition #sadoartist #noh
For the first time in Japan, we are thrilled to present our exhibition at Taachi Gallery as part of the Sado Island Galaxy Art Festival.
Running from today until November 9, it features works by Byetone, Perc, Grischa Lichtenberger, Roberto Musci, Felicity Mangan, Peter Kirn, Portrait XO, Daisuke Ishida, Senaida, Pawel Janicki, Martine-Nicole Rojina, Akkamiau, Cigarra, Jason Snell, Bocu, Calvin Khan, Fernando Fadigas, Östrol, and Tinkah. The exhibition brings together 19 works exploring themes of perception, death, self-healing natural structures, climate activism, and more—always within the realm below 150 Hz.
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#subbar #exhibition #subwoofer #immersive