Neko and Matière
Kaoru USUKUBO, Emi OTAGURO, Yumi NISHIMURA, Fumika TSUCHITORI
When paintings are freed from the story it holds, it becomes something of a physical matter,
leaving only the matière.
The act of observing the matière arouses thoughts that are solely created through the visual sense.
The figurative image and the physical visual of the surface that exists within a painting allows for a round trip between the two different surfaces, opening a “secret side” that is yet to be discovered from a single painting.
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Kaoru USUKUBO
Born in Tochigi in 1981. Earned PhD in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010.
Her work has been shown in the exhibitions including rin art association, Gunma(2022), LOOCK Galerie, Berlin(2020, 2017), Thalie Art Foundation, Brussel (2015),Utsunomiya Museum of Art, Utsunomiya(2013) and Friedrichshafen(2012). She also participated in Yokohama Triennale (2011).
Emi Otaguro
Emi Otaguro was born in 1980 in Fukuoka, Japan, and currently lives and works in Aichi. She received her B.F.A. in Painting from Tokyo Zokei University and her M.F.A. in oil painting from the Tokyo National University of Art and Music. Otaguro received a Japanese Government Oversea Research Program Grant from the Agency for Cultural Affairs and lived and worked in Berlin, Germany, from March 2019.
"Cat's Narrow Road" at Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Aichi; solo show "the reverie" at KAYOKOYUKI, Tokyo, 2022; "DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow 2021" at The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2021; solo show "MESA" at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2021; "MAT, Nagoya Studio Project vol.6" at Minatomachi POTLUCK BUILDING, Aichi, 2020; “Studio Exhibition” at Satoshi Ohno Studio, Yamanashi, 2018; "THE ECHOl" at Takasaki City Gallery, Gunma, 2016; "project N 55" at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, 2014; "TRICK-DIMENSION, curated by Daisuke Ohba" at tolot: heuristic SHINONOME, Toko, 2013; and "YON-SHIKI, curated by O JUN" at youkobo artspace, Tokyo, 2010. She has also received the winner of the Allotment Travel Award 2016 and the grand prize for the Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2008.
Yumi Nishimura
1989 Born in Tokyo, Japan
2019 Doctoral Degree (PHD) in Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts, Japan
2016 MFA, Painting, Kyoto City University of Arts
2014 BFA, Painting, Tokyo Zokei University
[Solo Exhibition]
2023
2022 A dog,stones,stories (The first)/HARMAS GALLERY,Tokyo
‘Figure-like character’ and Snow girl season2 /FINCH ARTS, Kyoto
2020 ‘Figure-like character’ (Snow girl) and flowers that I hope for the spring /FINCH ARTS, Kyoto
2018 Kakituduke tameni(From narrative to surface texture.Back and forth.) /Kanagawa Prefectural Lake Sagami-ko Community Center,Kanagawa
2016 From light houses vol.1 yumi nishimura/MOONDUST, Tokyo
2015 The scene collections and the human of earth color/Tokyo Zokei University, Tokyo
2013 TWS-Emerging2013：For instance until my grandfather, otherwise Conmori appeared./TWS Hongo, Tokyo
2012 Straw of hair and Oil/Bijyutsu Press Viewing Space, Tokyo
[Group Exhibition]
2022 Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2022/The Museum of Kyoto,Kyoto
surface:matière that narrates/Nihombashi Mitsukoshi Main Store 6F Art Salon,Tokyo
2021 Approaches to Painting – reprise/√K Contemporary,Tokyo
HOI POI：Japanese Contemporary Painters/ SPACE Four One Three,Korea
Cat and Matière/MtK Contemporary Art,Kyoto
Encounters in Parallel/ANB Tokyo,Tokyo
2019 PIE314 FOR MAKE WORKS /ON MAY FOURTH,Tokyo
2016 CAF ART AWARD 2016/3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo
CAF ART AWARD Selected Group Exhibition/HOTEL ANTEROOM KYOTO | GALLERY9.5, Kyoto
2014 Mitsubishi Corporation Art Gate Program 2013 Scholarship Student Exhibition /EYE OF GYRE, Tokyo
2012 Tokyo Wonder Wall 2012/ Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
2010 A Contemporary Art Show By Contemporary Art Students Produced by Mr. X/Kaikai Kiki gallery,
Hidari Zingaro, Tokyo
［Public Collection］
Takahashi Ryutaro Collection
KANKURO UESHIMA COLLECTION
Yamanashi Gakuin University, Yamanashi
Fumika Tsuchitori
Currently lives and works in Kyoto
Drawings, NADiff a/p/a/r/t, Tokyo, Japan
Drawings(＋), Gallery Room of BABY The Coffee Brew Club
Sleeping with me holding in my arms, Silence, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
Blind Spot, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan
Bones and Skin (light a fire, have to go find the roses), WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
collection #08, rin art association, Gunma
Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2024, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
CADAN × ISETAN ART GALLERY The Painter, Isetan Shinjuku Store Main Building 6F art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
MtK satellite Vol.2, Mtk satellite, Aichi, Japan
A painting surface: matière that narrates, Nihombashi Mistukoshi Honten, Main building 6F, Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
天人花展, Seibu Shibuya Alternative Space, Tokyo, Japan
Up_02, GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS, GINZA ATRIUM, Tokyo, Japan
Neko and Matière, MtK Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan
Light Brain Vol.1, ITOKI TOKYO XORK, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Perspective, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2021, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
UNTAMED VOL.2 YOUNG ARTISTS GROUP, COHJU contemporary art, Kyoto, Japan
-Inside the Collector’s Vault, vol.1-, WHAT MUSEUM, Tokyo, Japan
10th, WAITINGROOM, Tokyo, Japan
ART AWARD TOKYO MARUNOUCHI 2021, Gyoko Chika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
SUBJECT, ANTEROOM KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
A-Lab Artist Gate 2020, A-Lab, Hyogo, Japan
Kyoto University of the Arts Degree Show, Kyoto University of the Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto Art Lounge, Starbucks Coffee Sanjo Ohashi, Kyoto, Japan
Shibuya STYLE Vol.13, Seibu Shibuya art gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Innocent -P-, Kyoto International Conference Center, Kyoto, Japan
Artist’s Tiedeland KYOTO, Isetan Shinjuku Men's Building Art Lounge, Tokyo, Japan
SPURT, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
Read the Wachuan, Notre Dame Jogakuin Junior and Senior High School Wachuan, Kyoto, Japan
HOP, Galerie Aube, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto University of Art and Design Degree Show, Kyoto University of Arts, Kyoto, Japan
Now, That Paintings, Painting Laboratory303, Kyoto, Japan
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Graduate Show Award
Japan Traffic Culture Association, The 38th International TAKIFUJI Art Award, Prize for Excellence
- Title
- Neko and Matière
- Dates
- 2021/11/13-2021/12/26
- Operating Hours
- 10:00-18:00
- Closed on
- Monday
- In collaboration with
- KAYOKOYUKI
- Artists
- Kaoru USUKUBO, Emi OTAGURO, Yumi NISHIMURA, Fumika TSUCHITORI
