With 2,000 pears stolen from a field in Shimotsuma, Ibaraki, and Japanese food company Meiji attacked by a ransomware virus in Singapore, the contemporary artist Taro Shinoda unexpectedly passed away at the age of 58. His installations, Kare-sansui, Abstraction of Confusion and Lunar Reflections, offered reflections of a series of phenomena from an artist concerned with now humans coexist with the natural world. Roppongi Art Night 2022 also considers who these two things might come together for three days later this month.

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