A total of about 20 items including new works will be exhibited.
At Pola Museum Annex (Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo), an exhibition "Colors and Emotions" by two contemporary artists, Kyo Takemura and Kengo Kito, will be held from June 17th (Friday) to July 24th (Sunday), 2022. We will hold it.
Exhibition visual image
Kyo Takemura is creating a flat installation with embroidered white cloth on top of photographs and drawings, and a restoration series of works in which everyday items such as broken tableware are wrapped in cloth and embroidered. For Takemura, embroidery is intended to create a "temporary" state, sublimating things that no longer exist or pieces of memory into more concrete beings.
Kengo Kito uses common ready-made products such as hula hoops, shampoo bottles, and scarves, and uses large-scale installations and three-dimensional installations that incorporate the vividness of colors, the reflection of mirrors and glitter, and the movement, rotation, and circulation of motors. There are various ways to express it, such as paintings and photographs.
In this exhibition "Color and Emotion", color is a universal language, and emotion is something that everyone has, so in the current situation like Korona-ka, you don't have to talk directly. It comes from the artist's realization that being able to share colors and emotions is very important.
This time, a total of about 20 items including new works will be exhibited. Furthermore, during the exhibition period, an installation by co-production will be developed at the window on the 1st floor of the Paula Ginza Building. You can see the world view of the two together with the exhibition in the gallery.
Exhibition overview
Exhibition name: Kyo Takemura, Kengo Kito "Color and Emotion"
Date: June 17, 2022 (Friday) -July 24, 2022 (Sunday) * Open all year round: 11:00 – 19:00 (Admission is until 18:30)
Admission: Free Place: POLA Museum Annex (3rd floor, POLA Ginza Building, 1-7-7 Ginza, Chuo-ku, 104-0061)
Access: Immediately from Exit 7 of Tokyo Metro Ginza 1-chome Station / 6 minutes walk from Exit A9 of Tokyo Metro Ginza Station Main event: POLA ORBIS HOLDINGS CO., LTD.
URL: http://www.po-holdings.co.jp/m-annex/
* Contents are subject to change due to various circumstances. Please check the latest information on the gallery website before visiting.
"Playing Field 05" 2021 Material: Mixed media
� Writer's statement ∥
Color and emotion
After seeing the refreshing blue sky this morning, I was impressed with the color of light blue and egg color mixed with white, but after hearing the news of Ukraine, I mixed white with brown and added a little ocher. I picked it up.
When I see the bright pink color that blooms in the park heading for my son's graduation ceremony, my heart and nature are separated and it becomes a duo.
Mr. T came to stay for the first time after the corona sunfish opened at my mother who lives next door. A vermilion light shines in the two connected by the yellow door.
In the communal life of my son born in Berlin and Kito, what I want to eat comes to my mind at the same time while watching each other's time. We were almost always together. After returning to Japan, each life started, and a few years after the variation appeared in what I was seeing, I lived in Corona. In addition, the family returns to the life with a split, and what they want to eat begins to match.
In 1998, when I lived in Tokyo, I thought it would be enough if it was all white. Because things are visible in variations of light rays.
After 2000 in Berlin, when I realized that my memory was dominated by colors, I met a multicolored Kito at the exhibition of the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in 2008, and the colors I didn't know in my life were mixed. .. I'm glad to remember that a girl in Nagoya wore a strange color in Olive, a fashion magazine I read when I was in high school. From that time on, I have lived with the colors of Nagoya. The people you meet are made of their own colors. Colors that come from historical reasons, colors that come from family, colors that are decided by the mood of the morning, such as humming. Germans give meaning to colors without giving them names. I don't think it's blue when I tell them sky blue. Blue is the color that Maria wears. Lapis lazuli is used for blue.
The sky looks blue because the blue rays reach the ground at a distance from the sun.
Mr. K tells me that he felt kind when he came back to Japan and saw the work he made in his sixth year.
Coexist with various colors. I know that what is needed for this work is the expression of emotions. Colors with names, together.
April 1, 2022 Kyo Takemura
"Playing Field 00" 2020 Material: Mixed media
Profile
Kyo Takemura
Born in Tokyo in 1975. Completed the oil painting major in the master's course at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts.
Currently based in Gunma prefecture. His representative works include a flat installation in which a transparent cloth with embroidery is layered on top of photographs and drawings, and a restoration series in which the damaged parts of broken everyday items are re-sewn with white silk thread. From the act of embroidery intended to create a "temporary" state for the artist, various memories and things are reconstructed and appear as a new existence.
Major exhibitions include "Yokohama Triennale 2020" Yokohama Museum of Art (2020), "Yurie Nagashima x Kyo Takemura Mae and Now" Gunma Museum of Modern Art (2019), solo exhibition "Which moment is the most exciting?" Paula Museum of Art Atrium Gallery (Kanagawa / 2018), "Nakaboso International Art Festival Ichihara Art x Mix" Tsukiide Kosha (Chiba / 2014), etc.
www.takemurakei.com/
Kengo Kito
Born in Aichi prefecture in 1977. Completed the Department of Oil Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts.
Currently a professor at Kyoto University of the Arts, based in Gunma prefecture. Started writing activities while still in college. Established and participated in the operation of "Art Space dot" (Aichi Prefecture), a space independently operated by artists. He has presented large-scale installations using everyday off-the-shelf products such as hula hoops, threads, and mirrors, as well as motors, as well as works using various expression methods such as three-dimensional objects, paintings, and photographs.
Major exhibitions and awards include solo exhibition "Full Lightness" Kyoto Art Center (2020), "Roppongi Art Night 2018" National Art Center, Tokyo (Tokyo / 2018), solo exhibition "Kengo Kito Multiple Star" Hara Museum Ark (Gunma / 2017) , "DOMANI Tomorrow Exhibition PLUS" Kyoto Art Center (2016), Kyoto City New Artist Award (2020), etc.
www.kengokito.com/
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