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Exhibition
Kyoko Murase
"Emerald"
June 28-July 26, 2008
Taka Ishii Gallery is pleased to announce our sixth exhibition, and first since 2006, gEmeraldh with Dusseldorf-based artist Kyoko Murase. The exhibition will include ten new paintings.
Kyoko Murase has been drawing girls since her early works. A girl who was timidly looking outside from her room eventually opens the door and starts to walk outside.
Sometimes enjoying the sense of her body floating in the water, other times moving into the forest, slipping through the branches, sometimes pausing. And continuing her walk even now, where and what will the girl encounter?
Text by Sachiko Shoji (quoted from the press release of Kyoko Murasefs exhibition gCicadas and Horned Owlsh at The Sculpture Garden Museum VANGI MUSEO)
Through participating in the group exhibition gVanishing Points - Contemporary Japanese Arth (National Gallery of Modern Art New Delhi, 2007) and the exhibition gCicadas and Horned Owlsh featuring a large wall drawing and paintings (The Sculpture Garden Museum VANGI MUSEO, 2007), Kyoko Murasefs works have become highly acclaimed internationally.
In her new works, while past characteristics of Murasefs work - the sense of floating and transparency - are retained, an increasingly vivid and powerful brushwork seems to strongly attract viewers into her world along with the girlfs walk. Her distinctive compositions and colors encourage viewers to reconsider their perception.
Kyoko Murase
Sherbet, 2008
oil, color pencil on cotton,@
190 x 230 cm
Courtesy of the artist and
Taka Ishii Gallery
Kyoko Murase
The Cave of Emerald, 2008
oil on cotton, 125 x 140 cm
Courtesy of the artist and
Taka Ishii Gallery