Art Obulist 2025 Eiji Watanabe Exhibition

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Two Eiji Watanabes. Two parallel lives that cross in December 2024.

Eiji Watanabe (artist, left) and Eiji Watanabe (neuroscientist, right) talking side by side in the Rest Building
Artist talk “We Two are Tacticians,” Rest Building, Okura Park, 2025.11.22 sat. Video and chaptersPhoto: Kenji Aoki

Eiji Watanabe

Artist美術家

Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1961. The “Garden of the Appellation” series cut from illustrated encyclopedias, titles as wordplay, and projects that make places.

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Eiji Watanabe

Scientist神経科学者

Born in the old downtown of Osaka in 1962. Associate professor at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki. The brain’s sodium sensor, vision in medaka, optical illusions and deep learning.

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  1. 1961
    Born in Aichi Prefecture
  2. 1962
    Born in the old downtown of Osaka
  3. 1989
    First solo exhibition (Stegosaurus Studio, Nagoya; to 1993)
    First paper (Neuroscience)
  4. 2010
    Aichi Triennale 2010. Opens Star Gallery (to 2016)
    First paper on optical illusions (with Akiyoshi Kitaoka, Vision Research)
  5. c.2015
    “Between Botany and Art,” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art
    Searching for images of “eijiwatanabe,” the artist finds a researcher with the same name and images of optical illusions
  6. 2020
    “Merman”
    The optical illusion “Morning Monster” (with Lana Sinapayen)
  7. 2024
    “The Morning Star”
    In autumn, the artist meets Hidehiko Komatsu at the Okazaemon art festival. In December, first meeting at the National Institute for Basic Biology, Okazaki
  8. 2025
    “Sea of Eden”: cut-out fish spread across a tatami room
    ⑥ “Sea of Eden,” in the tatami room of the Rest BuildingPhoto: Kenji Aoki

    24 works in the Rest Building

    “Transforming three-dimensional object (stars and circles)”: a yellow object and a mirror
    ② “Transforming three-dimensional object (stars and circles),” Management BuildingPhoto: Kenji Aoki / Invented by Kokichi Sugihara (mathematician)

    16 exhibits and the question box in the Management Building

    Art Obulist 2025 Eiji Watanabe Exhibition
    “Morning Monsters / W Eiji”

    Saturday, November 1 – Sunday, December 7, 2025. Okura Park: Management Building, Rest Building and courtyard (Obu, Aichi). The paths of the park joined the two buildings.

    Exhibition record Talk “We Two are Tacticians”

  9. 2026

    3.28 counter lecture vol.02 “Analyze W Eiji” (Jingu339)

    3.31 Catalogue published

    7.17 Video of the artist talk “We Two are Tacticians” released

    8.20 The two Eijis lecture together at Aichi University of Education

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