Karin Takiguchi - Paintings

Hiromart Gallery is pleased to present Karin Takiguchi’s solo show, titled Artificial Light and Phantom. The exhibition features new works; especially made for this show, which marks our second solo show of the artist.

  

Artificial Light and Phantom

September 27 - October 29, 2023

Artist:          Karin Takiguchi

Hours:         1 to 7 pm

                   Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Artist Statement on Artificial Light and Phantom:

I came to Oita-prefecture to produce paintings. It’s the same old, but once you move in, good things don’t always occur. We’ll see many bad things about people. Even if we get fed up about people, when the night comes, we’ll be illuminated by a light someone else has made. I think the meaning of life in civilization is to involve with others directly and indirectly. There is a general idea of “Mimesis”. Humanity seems like a living creature who wants to imitate something else. Artificial light could also be the one of expression of moon and fire. This group of paintings represents artificial light, which is a figment of nature, and the layers of the unknown world.

Born in 1986, Yamagata. Currently, she lives in Oita.

She works on the pursuit of expression with her interest in ghost stories, and also paintings that depicted people and their living, such as works by Edgar Degas and Edward Hopper.

She is a Musashino Art University Correspondence Course dropout.

In 2016, her solo show was hosted at the Sagae City Museum of Art. In recent years, her painting was selected for the 58th Oita-ken-Bijyutsu exhibition in 2022. She is also a recipient of the 31st Kenshin Bijyutsu kenshin-douyukai award. Hiromart Gallery hosted her solo show in 2016, and 2 person show in 2018.

Image on TOP: Encounter, 45.5x38cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023

Below: Don’t make eye contact, 33.3x24.2cm, acrylic on canvas, 2023

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