FEATURED ARTIST: MONKNORI — A Tokyo Collage Artist Who Weaves Poetry from Magazine Fragments
ART & DAY is delighted to welcome a remarkable new voice from Tokyo.
Meet MONKNORI.
The raw material she works with is not paint, or canvas — it is the page itself. Fragments cut from fashion and lifestyle magazine pages are layered with acrylic to form compositions that liberate commercial imagery from its original purpose and transform it into something entirely new.
The 1PAGE Series: a world built from magazine fragments
MONKNORI's best-known body of work, the 1PAGE series, confines each composition to approximately A4 in scale. Yet within that small surface, cut faces, typography, colour and paint accumulate with precision to form a self-contained visual world. Printed matter that was born to be consumed becomes an artwork that endures — that quiet paradox is at the heart of the series.
MONKNORI | 《Beauté》 — ¥117,000
Over three decades of recognition
MONKNORI holds an Encouragement Award from the Nika Exhibition Design Section (1986) and has been selected for THE CHOICE (2006, 2009), one of Japan's most respected art competitions. Since her solo debut in 2011, she has exhibited regularly at THE blank GALLERY (Harajuku), Gallery NIW (Edogawabashi), and 3331 Arts Chiyoda.
Colour, Monochrome, and Package Works
The 1PAGE Monochrome sub-series strips colour from the palette entirely, leaving only the structural logic of collage — contrast, texture, composition — to carry the work. The Package Works series turns to consumer packaging as its raw material, rendered in wax oil pastel and ink. Warmer in tone, equally precise.
MONKNORI | 《CandyCane》 — ¥100,000
MONKNORI | 《Creamy Devotion》 — ¥100,000
Twenty original works by MONKNORI are now available at ART & DAY. Each is one-of-a-kind. Worldwide DDP shipping included.