Good Boy and Good Girl
Year: 2024
Material/Technique: Paper, Charcoal
Size: 630mm×380mm×1cm×2点set
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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USD 1,453
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About the Work
- Year
- 2024
- Material/Technique
- Paper, Charcoal
- Size
- 630mm×380mm×1cm×2点set
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Credits
- Courtesy of Amane Nakamura
- Regarding sales
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- Frame
- Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- Amane Nakamura
- Ship-from Area
- Tokyo
- Days Until Dispatch
- About a Week
- Category
- Drawing
Work Details
Material: Charcoal on paper
framed
I draw figurative paintings that connect the context of Japanese animation with the form of Renaissance painting. “Density of information” and “constructiveness of details” are examined in the wake of metaphors such as wind, distance, and boundaries seen in anime backgrounds that suggest the emotions and relationships of characters, and modern landscapes are reproduced based on the forms of both.
CADAN Study Vol.1 “GABE6” — Usukubo Laboratory As
we continue to face painting, we are repeatedly drawn back to questions about why we draw and what can be painted.
That question cannot be solved all at once; it is raised many times during production, and continues while changing its appearance.
While the members gathered here have different backgrounds, they are exploring the existence of “painting,” which has not yet been fully defined, with their own moves and speed.
From prehistoric cave paintings to religious paintings, perspective, impressionism, cubism, abstract expressionism, conceptual art — and until now, where AI generates images in one second, paintings have always been updated along with the question “is this also a painting?” The Tokyo University of the Arts Oil Painting Laboratory 6 is exploring how these conditions can be expanded from each production while re-questioning the relationship between the discovered support and the body and the very act of “seeing” the unique conditions — space, time, and light — that establish the medium of painting from such a long time axis. This series of events is also a series of questions, “How do humans see the world?”
The time that these members can gather in this laboratory in 2026 is actually only 1 year.
The current laboratory consists of 11 students, including 4 2nd graders, 4 1st graders, 1 international student, assistants, and professors.
The themes and methods of each production are very different, and relationships between works are not defined in advance.
Production is originally an extremely personal and solitary activity, but here, the presence of others and everyday events quietly creep into the interior of the production as if mixing colors.
Comments heard from next to each other, casual conversations, and time exchanged between productions. They gradually begin to function as something inseparable from production.
The events that occur there often appear as coincidental ones. However, we do not overlook them as mere coincidences or transient miracles, but connect to production by continuing to have an attitude of trying to find relationships and meanings within them.
Coincidence is not simply an uncertain factor; it is an opportunity to expand the possibilities of painting.
The title “GABE (gift)” does not indicate the very coincidence that they gathered here. Rather, it shows our very attitude about how we take that coincidence, find meaning and relationships in it, and connect it to production. I wonder if the slight misalignment or overlap that occurs within it, or a series of incidental events, will appear as a turning point in the history of painting as each one progresses from now on.
We still believe in something that can only be revealed through the medium of painting.
Everyone from Tokyo University of the Arts Oil Painting Laboratory 6
At GABE6, Good Boy and Good Girl will welcome visitors with a warm look from across the door. Please relax and enjoy the gentle view of the world they weave.
Exhibition Information
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Artist
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Amane Nakamura was born in Gifu in 2002. She is currently enrolled in the Master's program in Oil Painting (Studio 6) at Tokyo University of the Arts. She creates figurative paintings that bridge the context of Japanese animation with the formal traditions of Renaissance art. Sparked by how metaphors in anime backgrounds—such as wind, distance, and boundaries—hint at human emotions and relationships, she explores concepts of "density of information" and "construction of detail" to recreate contemporary landscapes using both stylistic frameworks. 2024 Exchange program at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) while attending Nagoya Zokei University 2026 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2026, Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery (Tokyo) 2026 CADAN Study Vol.1 “GABE6” – Usukubo Laboratory, CADAN Otemachi (Tokyo) Amane Nakamura (b.2002) Tokyo, Japan Instagram: @amane_nakamura13 Email: a.nakamura.contact@gmail.com Education 2026-2028(Current) MFA Tokyo University of the Arts, Painting 2022-2026 BFA Nagoya Zokei University, Art Expression 2024 Exchange Program, Academy Minerva, the Netherlands Solo Exhibition 2023 "Zoom In, Zoom Out" Mikan House (Aichi) Group Exhibitions 2022 Shinzui Exhibition , Aichi, Japan 2023 as windows, OGU MAG+, Tokyo, Japan Here and there, here and there, wherever I wonder, places here and there, Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan 2024 ZINE Exhibition, Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan 3rd Year Expo, Minerva Academy , Groningen, Netherlands 2025 ACT Art Grand Prize Exhibition 2025, Art Complex Center, Tokyo, Japan Paintings that Open Up Tomorrow: 43rd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2025 ZERO Exhibition, Toyonaka Cultural Arts Center, Osaka, Japan 21st Belladonna Art Exhibition, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Link Your World to Me, Nagoya Zokei University, Aichi, Japan After That = Or, Or,, Chateau Koganei, Tokyo, Japan Progress, Kawaijuku Art Institute, Aichi, Japan 2026 26th CBC Soar! Memories of a Twenty-Year-Old Exhibition, Aichi Museum of Art, Japan Nagoya Zokei University Graduation Exhibition 2026, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2026, Gyoukouchika Gallery, Tokyo, Japan CADAN Study Vol.1“GABE6”- Usukubo Laboratory, CADAN Otemachi,Tokyo, Japan Grants and Awards 2023 Nagoya Zokei University Academic Encouragement Scholarship ABLE INC. Cultural Promotion Foundation Scholarship 2023 Course B 2024 Nagoya Zokei University Academic Encouragement Scholarship Daiko Foundation Scholarship (Undergraduate) Higashi Honganji Scholarship (Support for Exchange Students) 9th Hoshino Coffee Art Contest 2025 2025 ZERO Exhibition 43rd Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition: Paintings that Open Up Tomorrow Nagoya Zokei University Academic Encouragement Scholarship
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