From Saturday, November 16, 2024, KINOSHO KIKAKU will hold the group exhibition “The Name of That Star”.
In November, the sun sets earlier and we can feel the length of the night. We hope you will take this opportunity to view the works of each artist in this exhibition, all of which are based on the theme of stars and the starry sky.
Group Exhibition “The Name of That Star
Exhibiting Artists
MANABU KISHIMOTO, Marina Kanamori, Fumina Tsutsui, Megumi Toyosawa
Saturday, November 16 – Friday, November 29
Opening hours: 12:00 – 18:00
Closed: Sunday and Monday
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MANABU KISHIMOTO
美術家 / Artist
1990 Born in Minamikawachi-gun, Osaka, Japan Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan
Graduated from Rikkyo University, Faculty of Modern Psychology, Department of Moving Images and the Body
MANABU KISHIMOTO questions categorization and depicts pure human beings by scraping off layers and layers of paint.
Race, gender, nationality, and appearance are among the elements that make up human beings, but they are only partial.
Since 2000, the society surrounding social networking services has sought to improve the efficiency of understanding by categorizing and simplifying human beings.
However, human beings are based on contingency and uncategorizable gradations.
His works are created using the traditional Japanese lacquer technique of “Togidashi” (polishing).
By grinding several layers of acrylic paint with water, the paint is scraped off the surface, revealing the layers of color from below.
Through the act of scraping and removing layers of paint using traditional Japanese techniques, he removes categorization and depicts the essential “positive human being,” stripped of all external elements.
金森 満理奈 Marina Kanamori
Painter
1989 Born in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture Currently lives in Yamagata City, Yamagata Prefecture
2014 Completed graduate studies in Painting, Department of Art Expression, Kyoto University of Art and Design
Using the technique of layering a translucent layer of wax on top of an oil or acrylic portrait of a young girl, her goal in painting is to create an image (ICON) that evokes a special image that is unique to the individual.
He continues to paint under the theme of “ICON.
The word “ICON” has the meanings of 1) idol, 2) symbol, 3) icon, and 4) icon (sacred image).
In the images that abound in the world, you may find something sparkling, an old memory that cannot be verbalized, or an image that is very personal. I wish to create paintings “I C O N” that evoke those special images that are unique to each individual.
After painting a girl or woman in acrylic or oil, I then add a piece of glass or a translucent layer on top of it, making the painted image difficult to see. I believe that the invisible parts and defects bring me closer to “I C O N”.
Solo Exhibition
2023 PINK&BLUE (French restaurant Eau et sel, Gifu, Japan)
2023 Solo Exhibition “ICON2” at Gallery Imajin, Gifu, Japan
2021 Solo exhibition “Artist’s Story Marina Kanamori” (5/R Hall&Gallery, Aichi)
2019 Solo exhibition “ICONs” at Gallery Imajin, Gifu, Japan
2016 Solo exhibition (The Terminal KYOTO, Kyoto)
Group exhibitions
2024 Clear (Nagoya Mitsukoshi Arte Casa, Aichi)
2024 10imagines (Minna no Mori Gifu Media Cosmos, Gifu, Japan)
2024 FRAGILE (Jiro Miura Gallery, Tokyo)
2024 YAMAGATA CITY RELATED ARTISTS’ EXHIBITION -Light of Art Nurtured in the Hometown- (Yamagata City Museum of Art, Gifu, Japan)
2022 Artists’ Summer Festival (Nagoya Mitsukoshi Arte Casa, Aichi)
2022 Summer Art Festival (Nagoya Mitsukoshi, Aichi)
2021 #hashtag Marina Kanamori, Haruhi Hogari (5/R Hall&Gallery, Aichi, Japan)
2021 Art Fair The Terminal (The Terminal Kyoto, Kyoto)
2020 Cinderella Princess Exhibition (Gallery Ogawa, Kumamoto)
2019 Art Caree~ Eri Asano and Marina Kanamori two person exhibition for my rest (French Restaurant Eau et sel, Gifu)
2019 ornament exhibition (Gallery K I N G Y O, Tokyo)
2019 5/C -Five Colors 2019- (5/R Hall&Gallery, Aichi)
2019 Spring Sound – Rain, Earth, Light, Wind – (CHACHA-NOTE Mizunone, Gifu)
2018 Wonder Seed 2018 (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo)
2017 Wonder Seed 2017 (Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Tokyo)
2014 Semantic Portrait 2 (O Gallery Eyes, Osaka)
2014 Brushes & Smudges (YOD Gallery, Osaka )
And many more
筒井文那 Fumina Tsutsui
Born in 1992, currently lives in Shizuoka
With each work, he creates a sad yet warm little story about life, death, memory, and existence.
To protect their existence, which should have been alive somewhere in the dead-end world,
My work is also a medium for recording the things that are important in my memory, the things I want to make eternal.
I hope that my memories of them and my stories will remain in this world like fossils even after my death.
Solo Exhibition
2022 Cradle /gallery hydrangea,Tokyo
2023 Eternal Otoshimono /aL Base,Tokyo
2024 Memories grafted together, you with a hole in your heart /NODACONTEMPORARY,Nagoya
2024 Transparent than thin film /aL Base,Tokyo
Group Exhibition
2022
Strawberry picking /Gallery ato,Osaka
Drawing Exhibition /marienkafer,Tokyo
ASHIMOTO NI YURAGU /Kyoto Botanical Gardens,Kyoto
FLAG/aterier Sangatsu,Osaka
2023
Portrait of zero /atelier Shinku,Osaka
A4 WALL MATSUYA GINZA /A4Gallery,Tokyo
KITAKAZE /MAISON OZMEN,France
ME BEFORE YOU /Gallery Daisy,Korea
StarT. /aLBase,Tokyo
Makuramoto ni shizumu kuni /marienkafer,Tokyo
Little Wish/STARBRIDGE TEA,MOTTO ART/Tokyo
Art Fair
2022 OneOffs International
2022 TIAF JEJU Art Fair
2023 ART TAINAN
2023 ART TAICHUN
2023 ASIAAF
2023 Kiaf SEOUL2023
2024 ONE ART TAIPEI2024
2024 ART FAIR TOKYO2024
2024 Mango Art Festival2024
2024 Japan Art Art Exhibition / Japan Art Exhibition / Japan Art Exhibition / Japan Art Exhibition / Japan Art Exhibition
Japan Art Exhibition/A4gallery,Taiwan
mini◯/Sansiao Gallery,Hongkong
KUKANSAITEN/aL Base,Tokyo
mini◯/Sansiao Gallery,Tokyo
Utsuro na gunzou/Tsutaya Book Store,Tokyo
Forest fairies/STARBRIDGE TEA,MOTTO ART,Tokyo
Always Night, Just Night/marienkafer,Tokyo
豊澤めぐみ Megumi Toyosawa
Born in Tokyo, Japan
I create mainly two-dimensional works with the motif of two girls.
The girls, who look the same, are figures inspired by “friends you can meet only in your dreams.
Since the characters in the dream reflect their own projection and consciousness, they are two sides of the unconscious,
The subject matter of her work is the acceptance of contrasting aspects of oneself, self-esteem, and self-love.
Based in Tokyo, they have recently participated in art fairs and group exhibitions in Kansai and abroad.
Major group exhibitions
2024 MINI○Exhibition/SANSIAO GALLERY MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY, Tokyo
2024 MINI○Exhibition/SANSIAO GALLERY HONGKONG,Hong Kong
2023 -New Artists Exhibition-GINZA Tranquille!vol.3/Artglorieux GALLERY,Tokyo
2023 UNKNOWNASIA 2023/Grand Front Osaka,Osaka
2023 Independent Tokyo/Tokyo Port City Takeshiba,Tokyo
2023 LINING IN GINSOUS TIN -Japanese Artists’ Exhibition/ BEIJING798,Beijing, China
2023 -Ekawa Laboratory-neo. Matiere Exhibition /Daimaru Tokyo,Tokyo, Japan
2023 A4gallery Taipei 1st anniversary/A4 Gallery Taipei,Taipei
2023 A4WALL MATSUYA GINZA / Matsuya Ginza,Tokyo
2022 -New Artists Exhibition-GINZA Tranquille!vol.2/Artglorieux GALLERY,Tokyo
2022 Independent Tokyo/Tokyo Port City Takeshiba,Tokyo