KINOSHO KIKAKU is pleased to present “Natsuko Taniguchi Solo Exhibition – Everyday Paradise -” from March 8, 2024. We look forward to your visit.

Natsuko Taniguchi Solo Exhibition “Everyday Paradise”
Friday, March 8 – Thursday, March 21, 2024
Business hours: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Closed Mondays

Near and far. Scenery in the vicinity.
Plants in the garden or flowers in the field.
The dirt, grass, and snow underfoot.
Small creatures and their dead bodies.
Or sometimes, the words of someone beside you.
In our daily life, the things that we think are beautiful.
Each one in its own way, in its own time.
I gather up the “beautiful” of each moment, and with my own hands, once again
I make them into shapes, colors, shadows, light…
When I was painting like that every day…
This beautiful view appeared in front of my eyes
This is paradise. Come and play.

KINOSHO KIKAKU will hold “Mugi Hamada Solo Exhibition – I Can See Your Face Better at Night” from February 16, 2024 (Friday). We look forward to seeing you there.

Mugi Hamada Solo Exhibition “I Can See Your Face Better at Night”
February 16 (Friday) – 29 (Thursday), 2024
Hours: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Closed: Monday

Dragon Head Dragon Tail, oil on canvas, 91.0×120.0cm, 2024

Solo Exhibition “I Can See Your Face Better at Night”
Artist Statement
I always paint pictures based on a story. I have painted scenes from that story, or created transformed panels from a collection of scenes, but for this solo exhibition, I have decided to subdivide the story of my own characters into smaller pieces. Until then, I have mainly focused on the main character, Aleyshka, the young woman who is the main character. Over the next few years, I began to understand a little more about the people around her, and I decided to reflect this in the production.

When you look at social networking sites, there are so many languages spoken in so many directions. They are so vividly emotional that it is easy to become weary of them. But angry and sad people are important to form the emotional core of my characters and can be made lovable by deforming them. I try to inhabit my characters by using them to water down the hustle and bustle of everyday life.

The title comes from the fact that Aleyshka, who lives in a world where night is long, is accidentally transported to a world where day and night are half and half, and the sunlight is too bright for her to see anything, but at night she can see everything in her eyes. For me, who sees the world through the characters, they are like a quiet night.

Hamada
Born in Saitama, Japan in 1999
2019 Entered Musashino Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Oil Painting, Oil Painting Course
2023 Graduate from the same university

She creates works based on the theme of a fictitious sorceress, her family, the people and environment around her. She reflects her own naves’ casual experiences in the motifs of the imaginary world, and at the same time, she pursues painting as a material, seeking a new way of being of the created characters. Recently, he has been working with deformed panels.

主なグループ展
2021年
・「199X10」shuuue、東京
・「お泊まり会」⽬⿊rusu、東京
2022年
・「Shirokane Fabruary」 Art Gallery Shirokane 6c、東京
・「MINI◯展」SANSIAO GALLERY、東京
・「EXODUS」 K11MUSEA GALLERY ASCEND、⾹港
・Comtemporary Tokyo グループ展、東京
・「Kotohajime」 ⽴川『』、東京
2023年
・「MINI◯展」SANSIAO GALLERY、東京
・「KINOSHO KIKAKU Group Show 2023 vo.2」⽊之庄企畫、東京
・「疎通」HELLO GALLERY TOKYO、東京
・「第七回京と家アートプロジェクト」 京と家輝庭North、京都
・「199×12 ふゆやすみ」公開制作 Gallery Yukihira、東京

個展
2022年
・「地下室から星を眺めて」LIGHT HOUSE GALLERY 、東京
2023年
・「みちみちの箱庭」
Art Gallery Shirokane6c、東京

卒業制作
・「2022年度 武蔵野美術⼤学 卒業・修了制作展」 武蔵野美術⼤学鷹の台キャンパス、東京
・「令和4年度 第46回 東京五美術⼤学連合卒業・修了制作展」 国⽴新美術館、東京