Sex and Death

伊東明日香/Asuka Ito《鈴蘭 待つ・・・》2016, 33.3x24.2cm, パネル、白亜地、鉛筆、青墨、墨インク、和紙平野果林/Karin Hirano《Passage Ⅱ》2016, 36.4x25.7cm, ペン、シャープペンシル、シリウス紙

Date : Aug. 13 (Sat) ~ Sep. 10 (Sat), 2016

Open : From Tue. to Sat. , 11am to 7pm (Close on Sun., Mon., and national holidays)

Opening Reception : Aug. 13 (Sat) 5pm ~ 7pm

 

The common story of their works is “memorial records”.

”Sex and Death” means our impulse hidden into memorial records unconsciously, and we can’t tell it’s normal or abnormal.

2 artists’ works express this philosophy in monochrome, so we can expand our imagination.

Please enjoy the show.

MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY Director – Masahiro Takahashi

 


 

-Asuka Ito

Humans are given bodies in order to live, study languages, have emotions, have various experiences, live, live, and simply live…

We can’t find out what is happiness, unhappiness, righteousness, and wrongness easily.

The only thing for sure is that we are living and existing.

We bear our “sex” and go toward death.

As one scene of black-and-white film, photographs or pictures, I draw one woman’s proof to live as memorial records.

1978 Born in Yokohama, Japan

2003 B.F.A, Tokyo University of the Arts

2005 M.F.A, Tokyo University of the Arts

 

EXHIBITIONS

2016

Collaboration Project / RISE GALLERY and MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY

Masataka Contemporary’s exhibition:Japanese Women Artists / Bernarducci Meisei Gallery

2015

Girls Expo / FUMA CONTEMPORARY TOKYO

Shinpiteki-Ganbou(The secret desire) / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY

ART OSAKA 2015 / HOTEL GRANVIA OSAKA

2014

Corporate Collaboration Art Tokyo 2014 with Hello Kitty / MDP Gallery

Beginnings / MASATAKA CONTEMPORARY

Mitsukoshi X Geidai / Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Department Store

YOUNG ART TAIPEI 2014 / Regent Taipei

and more

 

-Karin Hirano

The scenery I glanced, the scent, the word someone said, but I don’t remember where I found them so I will never see them again.

Connecting pieces having at the back of my mind then creating new shapes is precious but that makes me feel sad a little.

Drawing dense lines is similar to praying.

To support fragile pieces securely.

The symbol highlighted by repetition of vivifications and funerals points me to little miracles standing stealthily in a life.

 

1985 Born in Tokyo

2010 Graduated from Joshibi University of Art and Design, Department of Fine Arts, Concentration in Oil Painting

 

EXHIBITIONS

 

2016

The Joint Drawing Exhibition of 5+1 / GALERIE SIMON

 

2014

Mad About You / GALLERY YUKI-SIS

Wandering salon The 10th Joint Exhibition / Gallery Little-High

 

2012

Melting Point / GALLERY YUKI-SIS

The 2nd publicly sponsored exhibition “What is Drawing?” / GALERIE SIMON

The Joint Exhibition of Takashi Oda and Karin Hirano for Runners-up Prize Winner of The 2nd publicly sponsored exhibition “What is Drawing?” / GALERIE SIMON

EMERGING DIRECTORS’ ART FAIR ULTRA005 / Spiral Garden

and more

 

PRIZE

 

2012

The 2nd publicly sponsored exhibition “What is Drawing?” Runner-up Prize