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Mitsuo Kim "Goodbye My Love"
※英語の後に日本語が続きます

Saturday, September 18, 2021 ‒ Sunday, October 10, 2021

Born in the city of Osaka in 1987, Mitsuo Kim graduated from the Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate School in 2012, and received the Encouragement Prize at the "VOCA Exhibition" in 2014 and "the Kyoto City New Artist Award". He has remained active both inside and outside Japan, and has held solo exhibitions at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and in Taiwan, for example. Titled "Control Control", his exhibition last year at LEESAYA was a brilliant presentation of his everyday work as an artist and busy father as viewed through the lens of his distinctive vision, and scored a resounding success.


Applying silkscreen techniques, Kim transfers an image to a panel coated with wax. He heats the transferred image, whose wax loses its form as it melts and is then left to harden. The resulting works project the social instability and nebulous situation of his personal experience as a foreign national born and raised in Japan.


For this exhibition, Kim looks back on his own roots for perspective on considering where he is now. During World War II, many foreign nationals came to Japan because of poverty or various other factors. Kim said his mother emigrated to Japan from the Korean peninsula at around age five. He was brought up hearing many stories of her personal experiences. One story that especially sticks in his mind is how his mother as a little girl kept holding onto a single biscuit that was given to her when she was on the road and had had nothing to eat.


The title of the exhibition was taken from the eponymous song by Ann Lewis, which was a favorite of her mother's.

Goodbye my love, on this street corner
Goodbye my love, let us walk away
You going right, and I going left
Whoever looks back is the loser

The above lyrics at the start of the song which his mother loved send Kim's mind back to the Jeju April 3 Incident of 1948, the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, and the particulars of how she came to live in Japan.


In the present age, it is said that society has become more tolerant of diversity, and all sorts of people are more able to move freely across national borders, regardless of race and nationality. Nevertheless, the refugee problem and strife still loom very large as global issues. In Kim's works, we can discern the social cycles that are inevitably formed, the thin reality of events happening in distant countries, and a variety of sentiments that can be shared by a great number of people today. Please be sure not to miss "Goodbye My Love", a solo exhibition by Mitsuo Kim.


金光男
グッド・バイ・マイ・ラブ

2021年09月18日(土) - 10月10日(日)
水曜-土曜: 12時-19時|日曜: 12時-17時
休廊日:月・火(祝日9月20・23日は17時まで営業)

金光男(きむ・みつお)は1987年大阪市に生まれ、2012年には京都市立芸術大学大学院を修了後、「VOCA展2014」奨励賞や「京都市芸術新人賞」を受賞。金沢21世紀美術館や、台湾での個展を開催するなど国内外で活躍しています。昨年、LEESAYAでの個展「Control Control」では作家として、父として奔走する日々の営みを、金独自の世界観で見事に表現し、大変ご好評をいただきました。

金はシルクスクリーンの技法を応用し、蝋を塗ったパネルにイメージを定着させています。転写されたイメージにあえて熱を加え、溶けて崩れながら固められた作品は、外国人として日本に生まれ育った、自身の社会的な不安定さや曖昧な状況を投影しています。

今回の展覧会では、金光男の現在地を考える上で、改めて作家自身のルーツについて見直すこととしました。戦時中多くの外国人が生活困窮など様々な理由から日本に渡来してきたように、金の母も5歳の頃に朝鮮半島から日本に渡ってきたそうです。金は母から様々な体験談を聞いて育ちました。中でも、道中お腹が空いたら食べるように、と一枚だけ渡されたビスケットを、幼い母がいつまでも握りしめていたというエピソードは金にとって強い印象として残っているそうです。

展覧会タイトルは金の母が好んで聴いていたアン・ルイスの「グッド・バイ・マイ・ラブ」から選びました。

グッバイ・マイ・ラブ この街角で
グッバイ・マイ・ラブ 歩いてゆきましょう
あなたは右に わたしは左に
ふりむいたら負けよ

歌の冒頭の一節から1948年の4・3済州島事件と、1950年に始まった朝鮮戦争の勃発、母親が日本で暮らすこととなった経緯を母の愛した歌に重ね思い馳せます。

社会の多様性に対する許容も進み、人種や国籍を問わず様々な人々が自由に行き来できるとされている時代に、いまだに難民問題や紛争は世界の課題として大きく横たわっています。どうしようもなく接続されてしまう社会の円環や、遠くの国で起こっているリアリティの希薄さをはじめ、金の作品群からは、現代において非常に多くの人々が共有し得る様々な感情を重ね見ることができるでしょう。金光男の個展「グッド・バイ・マイ・ラブ」を是非ともご高覧ください。
2021-09-17

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URLhttps://leesaya.jp/exhibitions/leesaya-goodbye/
Address3–14–2 Shimomeguro, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153–0064, Japan

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