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Itsuki Kaito Solo Exhibition "No excuses for showing up"
※英語の後に日本語が続きます

Saturday, November 20, 2021 ‒ Sunday, December 19, 2021

Born in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido in 1993, Itsuki Kaito was awarded a scholarship by the Kuma Foundation for the second and third semesters of her graduate studies and nominated for the Contemporary Art Foundation (CAF) Award in 2017. She completed her post-graduate studies at the Kyoto City University of Arts in 2019. At present, she is energetically engaged in activities of creative production based in Tokyo. She is active in Japan and other countries, including European countries, China, and the Republic of Korea, and is coming to the fore as a promising young artist.

Kaito’s works consist mainly of oil paintings on canvas. While brewing a disquieting atmosphere, they are characterized by use of vivid colors and an arrangement of motifs that could even be seen as arbitrary. The diverse motif assortment includes men without faces, oddly shaped dogs and tigers, and stuffed animals radiating a strange aura. Motifs associated with violence, such as tools with sharp pointed claws, belts, harnesses, and blades, appear in all of these paintings.

Beginning at age nine, Kaito posted pictures she had drawn by computer on internet bulletin boards, and did not concentrate on making “skilled” drawings. She was, on the contrary, heavily influenced by underground contents that could definitely not be viewed in social life, and built up a world view that is all her own. In the case of an artist who has come to grips with herself through painting, the handling of sexual and immoral images cannot be equated with manifestations of wrath and suspicion toward society. Instead, through her depictions of narcissism filled with immorality and shame as the selfish inner world latently existing in the hearts of many, we come to realize that deviations from common sense and social norms can in themselves be a kind of salvation, and at the same time, that art per se possesses a similar quality.

This exhibition directs our attention to the nature of human beings, who end up receiving messages, both unconsciously and passively, from various meaningless things, such as constellations and the holes of overlapping belts. Our deep psyche is at work in unintended readings. The artist has stated that experience, knowledge, and other solid reasons are operating therein, and we cannot make any excuses for it. One wonders what viewers will discover in the weird teapot and constellation-like motifs newly appearing in these works.

We are looking forward to seeing you at No Excuses for Showing Up, a solo exhibition by Itsuki Kaito, a leading-edge artist who is broadening the stage of her activity both inside and outside Japan.

皆藤齋
現れるのに勝手はない

2021年11月20日(土) - 12月19日(日)

皆藤齋(かいとう・いつき)は1993年北海道札幌市に生まれ、在学中より第一期・第二期クマ財団奨学生、2017年にはCAF賞ノミネート、2019年には京都市立芸術大学大学院を修了後、現在は東京を拠点に精力的に制作活動を行なっています。日本をはじめ、ヨーロッパや中国、韓国など国内外で活躍している注目の若手アーティストです。

皆藤の作品は主にキャンバスに油彩で描かれており、不穏な雰囲気が漂いながらもビビットな色使いと一見、恣意的にもとれるモチーフの配置が印象的です。描かれているモチーフは、顔のない男性や、奇妙な形の犬や虎、不思議なオーラを放つぬいぐるみなど様々ですが、鋭く尖った爪のような器具や、ベルト、ハーネス、刃物など暴力を連想させるモチーフが一貫して画面に登場します。

9歳頃からコンピュータで描いた絵をインターネットの掲示板に投稿していた作家は、いわゆる上手な絵を描く、ということには注力してきませんでした。むしろ社会生活では決して見ることのできないアンダーグラウンドコンテンツから多くの影響を受け、皆藤独自の世界観を作り上げてきました。描くことで自己と向き合ってきた作家にとって、性的で非道徳的なイメージを扱うことは社会に対する怒りや疑問をぶつけているわけではありません。むしろアンチモラルや羞恥心を孕んだナルシシズムといった、多くの人の心に潜在的に存在する利己的な内面世界を表現することで、常識や社会性からは逸脱していたとしても、それ自体が救いになり得、同時に芸術そのものが同様の性質を持っていることに気付かされます。

今回の展覧会では、星座や重なり合ったベルトの目など、無意識のうちに、受動的に意味のない様々な物から、メッセージを受け取ってしまう人の性に目を向けます。意図しない読み取りには深層心理が働いており、そこには経験や知識など、確固たる理由が作用している、言い訳のできないものだと作家は話します。新たに登場する不思議なポットや、星座のようなモチーフの中に観賞者は何を見出すのでしょう。
国内外で活躍の場を広げている新進気鋭の作家、皆藤齋の個展「現れるのに勝手はない」を是非ともご高覧ください。
2021-12-03

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URLhttps://leesaya.jp/exhibitions/noexcuses/
住所3–14–2 Shimomeguro, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153–0064, Japan

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