Charles Munka Exhibition
“WHERE THE GREY LIGHT MEETS THE GREEN AIR”
2026年5月23日（土）より、SUPPOSE DESIGN OFFICEが運営する・猫屋町ビルヂング 2F ギャラリー（広島）にて、フランス出身のアーティスト、Charles Munka（シャルル・ムンカ）による個展 “WHERE THE GREY LIGHT MEETS THE GREEN AIR” を開催いたします。
Charles Munkaは、猫屋町ビルヂングのオープニング企画として2023年に開催された展覧会 “Tameshigaki” にて、多くの来場者へ鮮烈な印象を残しました。本展は、それ以来約2年半ぶりとなる当ギャラリーでの個展となり、新作シリーズを発表いたします。
本展で発表される作品群は、「ある場所から次の場所へ移りゆく、その狭間の瞬間」 を描いた絵画です。風景として立ち現れながらも、そこに特定の土地や座標は存在しません。時間や場所を通り過ぎるなかで蓄積される感情や空気、すべてがなお動き続け、何ひとつ定まっていない刹那。その不確かな移ろいこそが、Munkaの新作シリーズの主題となっています。
展覧会タイトルは、詩人 T.S. Eliot の一節から引用されたものです。“grey light（灰色の光）”と“green air（緑の空気）”が交わるこの言葉は、曖昧な境界や移行する時間を象徴し、Munkaの描く風景世界とも深く共鳴しています。
油彩、アクリル、チャコール、プリントトランスファーなど複数の技法によって構築された画面は、静けさと運動性、記憶と漂流、現実と抽象のあいだをたゆたいます。小さな画面のなかに広がる、旅の断片のような景色。広島・猫屋町ビルヂングの空間にて、その新たな絵画世界をご体感ください。
アーティストプロフィール
Charles Munkaはフランス・リヨン生まれ。2000年にフランスを離れ、東京、上海、香港を経て、2018年より新潟県佐渡市を拠点に制作活動を続けている。
【展覧会概要】
展覧会名
Charles Munka @charlesmunka
“WHERE THE GREY LIGHT MEETS THE GREEN AIR”
会期
2026年5月23日（土）～6月9日（火）
※5月29日（金）・30日（土）・31日（日）は休館
時間
11:30 – 19:00
（水曜定休・5/29〜31休館）
会場
猫屋町ビルヂング 2F ギャラリー @nekoyacho.bld
（広島県広島市中区猫屋町8-17）
企画
Archipel, @sailtoarchipel etc.inc @etc.inc_
運営
SUPPOSE DESIGN OFFICE @supposedesignoffice
SCENES on view at @2taachi on Sado island until 05.15
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 tells 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.
The Scenes series 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, abstracting their lines, arrows, and various symbols into charged chromatic fields.
The new series introduces a new material dimension with pieces made using 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, single lines selected from Noh manuals are traced: one unbroken gesture, unrepeated and unrevised. Time and texture are integral to the process; the drying surface determines what is possible and what is lost. The result simultaneously record and
residue, notation and dissolution.
@charlesmunka
“HOLLOWAYS”
Charles Munka’s art work in Sado Island, Japan.
this video was filmed in july 2025 at charles Munka's studio during his HOLLOWAYS exhibition on Sado island.
It captures some of the production process and thoughts involved in the creation of this project.
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“The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill” - T.S Eliot
There are about 30 Noh stages left on Sado Island — some still in use, others slowly disappearing. Many have already been claimed by time and the island’s harsh weather, leaving behind only foundation stones and a few weathered photographs in local archives.
#sadoisland #noh #japantraditional
SEVEN IN YOUR MOVEMENTS
54.5 x 74 cm
Oil and acrylic on canvas
2025
The quote “Count ten in your heart, seven in your movement” from Zeami’s writings for Noh theater means that a performer should have a fully developed inner understanding or emotion (“ten”) but only reveal a partial, carefully curated aspect of it through their physical actions or movement (“seven”). This creates an effect where more is felt than is seen.
“The memory of a familiar gesture by someone gone, repeated so often it has worn its own groove in both air and mind” -Robert mcfarlane, Underland.
The shiidomari shrine stage hadn’t been used for so long that no one in the community knew how to work the heavy wooden doors and beams used to keep it shut for the past decades. After a day of nudging around and carrying out all the random wooden structures stored inside which no one could remember the original purpose the building stood strong and open again on top of its hill looking out to the bay of Ryotsu.
Shiidomari shrine - shiidomari area - Sado
