Reflection
June 6 - August 8, 2020
Yosuke Kobashi
Kotori Kawashima
Kotori Kawashima
Good Night gods
2014
C-Print, Framed
23.6 x 35.4 inch
60.0 x 90.0cm
Edition of 5
JPY 150,000- (+Tax )
Kotori Kawashima + Shuntaro Tanikawa
Good Night gods "To Plants"
2014
Poem : Silk-screen printing
Photo : C-Print
Design : Bunpei Yorifuji ( Bunpei Ginza )
8.4 x 12.2 inch
21.5 x 31.0cm
Edition of 10
JPY 30,000- (+Tax )
“I’m waiting for you forever…”
“Snow White” was originally featured in the Grimm fairy tale collection in German folks and is also widely known worldwide as a Disney movie.
In this work, I described a scene that a prince appears to Snow White lying in the glass coffin by the seven dwarfs because they thought she is dead due to biting the poisoned apple made by the witch.
In this work, I depicted neither the seven dwarfs nor the prince around the coffin in response to the reaction of people’s indifference and its continuous situation to behavior and scandal of politicians in Japan.
White Snow who prepared a lot of poisoned apples by herself and ate them is lying on the coffin and waiting alone for help that will never come.
Naomi Okubo
Naomi Okubo
I'm waiting for you forever… Series of Fairy Tale
2019
Acrylic on cotton cloth, pleximirror, metal chain and frame
12.0 x 18.5 inch
30.5 x 47.0cm
JPY 250,000- (+Tax )
Back Side
Naomi Okubo
Because of You… Series of Fairy Tale
2019
Acrylic on cotton cloth, pleximirror, metal chain and frame
12.0 x 18.5 inch
30.5 x 47.0cm
JPY 250,000- (+Tax )
Back Side
silence
During the walk, I met an old woman in the neighborhood. In the middle of a fun small talk, she suddenly said, "I can't help hearing this grandmother's story," and she left with a smile.
I think of what silenced her.
Miwa Ishiba
Miwa Ishiba
"A Blind" from a Woman, a Nuisance and a Blind
2020
Acrylic on cotton cloth and panel
31.6 x 25.6 inch
80.3 x 65.2cm
JPY 240,000- (+Tax )
Miwa Ishiba
Silence
2020
Acrylic on cotton cloth and veneer
Diam. 17.7 inch
Diam. 45.0 cm
JPY 90,000- (+Tax )
It has been about 15 years since I took over the sawmill, which is a family business, in a rural town where forestry is thriving in Kyushu.
Every day from morning till evening, I was covered with sawdust, and I was desperately trying to make a full rotation of my small left brain. Management was tough even in normal times, but it's this uproar when I come here. To be honest, my heart is broken. Originally, he does not have tough mental power.
When I was single, I drank a lot, and since I had a family, I've managed to live with a mindfulness method, rather than overcoming it, with a feeling of dissipating pain, but the cause is unknown since the beginning of this year. I suffered from general pain and became a bachelor of steroids. It may have been the case when I was 20 years old when I first started painting.
I forgot because of the greater desire for approval that I realized after that, but I realized again that drawing is the only way I can concentrate on my senses, which I cannot get with abdominal breathing.
Now I manage to keep my feelings by drawing the face of the elderly in the mirror.
Eisuke Sato
Eisuke Sato
untitled
2020
Acrylic on canvas
13.1 x 9.6 inch
33.3 x 24.5cm
JPY 80,000- (+Tax )
Eisuke Sato
untitled
2018
Acrylic on canvas
13.1 x 9.6 inch
33.3 x 24.5cm
JPY 80,000- (+Tax )
The Smiling Skin
I started to create this painting with my thought that I wanted to depict the best smile.
Every person has anxiety and a negative side on the back of their facial expression. It is impossible to live by eliminating all the negative sides. However, I believe that we could live happily in any era if we could share the warmth that we get by relating with others regardless of race, age, or gender even though we keep the negative side inside of our hidden part.
The reason why I purposely depicted the neon-colored blood vessel with transparent is that I want to show the uncomfortable and the freshness that the inside of the skin contains. The skins and the blood vessels represent the negative reality we have and the anxiety that is like the blood spill out when I cut the skin with a knife. I tried to make it pop with neon colors because it will be too grotesquery with real expression. They are the symbol of an image for anxiety or negatives feelings.
Shoko Fujimori
Shoko Fujimori
The Smiling Skin
2019
Oil on canvas and panel
28.6 x 23.8 inch
72.7 x 60.6cm
JPY 160,000- (+Tax )
Shoko Fujimori
The Flower for You
2020
Oil on canvas and panel
10.1 x 7.1 inch
25.7 x 18.2cm
JPY 40,000- (+Tax )