MIYA ANDO

MAKI Gallery is pleased to present Shichijūni kō unsō (Seventy-Two Microseasons: Cloud Aspects), New York-based artist Miya Ando’s third solo show at Tennoz, Tokyo. The exhibition features seventy-two of Ando’s signature cloud paintings structured according to shichijūni kō (七十二候), a traditional East Asian calendar system that divides the year into seventy-two microseasons. Every microseason spans approximately five to six days and is marked by a small, observable change in the natural world. Although the system is designed to organize time into fixed intervals, it is ultimately understood through the accumulation of subtle transitions. The term unsō (雲相) in the exhibition title combines un (雲), meaning cloud, and sō (相), denoting aspect, phase, or condition within classical observational vocabularies. Unsō directs our focus to how clouds present themselves at a given moment, shaped by atmosphere and duration. Shichijūni kō unsō renders the seventy-two microseasons visible through chromatic sequence and subtle shifts in the natural world, articulating time as a continuous process perceived with sustained attention to gradual variation.