Things that go to heaven and earth
Year: 2026
Material/Technique: Canvas, Acrylic
Size: 41 × 31.8 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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USD 1,336
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About the Work
- Year
- 2026
- Material/Technique
- Canvas, Acrylic
- Size
- 41 × 31.8 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Not Set
- Work Certificate
- Not Set
- Distributor of artworks
- kemono gallery
- Ship-from Area
- Not Set
- Days Until Dispatch
- 2-3 Days
- Category
- Painting
- Style
- Emotional, Conceptual, Fantasy, Animal
Work Details
While using Sleipnir, the eight-legged character that appears in Norse mythology as a starting point of inspiration, this work does not reproduce that myth, but rather depicts a new divine beast by superimposing it with memories and views of nature that live in Japanese land.
“Komagata,” which appears on mountain ridgelines since ancient times, has been deeply linked to people's lives as a natural calendar that tells the season of rice planting and sowing seeds. People read the changes of nature in the landscape and have inherited the seasons while feeling signs of invisible presence there.
Divine beasts and spiritual beasts are not real creatures, and they may be entities where such natural phenomena, memories of the land, and people's prayers have appeared as a single form.
The “thing that goes through heaven and earth” depicted in this work is a symbol of freely moving back and forth between earth and sky, reality and myth. That figure running through the night sky is not a boundary separating the world, and it quietly reconnects memories of different times, landscapes, and people.
Myths to me are not stories from the past. It is proof that the natural activities engraved on the land and the imagination created by humans in an attempt to understand the world continue to live while changing their shape even now.
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Artist
Kemono Painter (kemono graphy)
There are mysterious powers in nature. They seem to be visible and invisible, and their existence is unstable, and I feel them and visualize them through my work I'm trying it out. The theme of my work is the world of nature, mythology, and the invisible senses. Patterns and colors that emerge when looking at living things from a unique viewpoint — these are named “kemonography (chemography)” and recorded. Produced at the atelier and gallery “Kemono” in Senmaya, Iwate Prefecture. Through exhibitions and exhibiting at events, I depict the harmony between fantasy and reality. In 2004, he had a strange experience (surrounded by pale light), and then began production activities after being unable to help drawing pictures. solo exhibition 2016 Kemono (Kemono) Gallery Chloe Kemono Shiroi Human Exhibition (SEA CANDEL COFFEE) Miyagi 2017 Kemono (Kemono) Gallery Noten Shizuku Exhibition (SEA CANDEL COFFEE) Miyagi 2018 KEMONO GALLERY in TAIPEI “Dumb Beast” Taipei 2019 Kemono Gallery: The Flesh of the Fierce Angel Iwate 2021 Kemono no Daichi Exhibition Iwate Group Exhibitions 2014 JADIF Selected Exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo 2015 JADIF SELECTION EXHIBITION SETAGAYA MUSEUM OF ART TOKYO 2016 JADIF Selected Exhibition, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo 2017 ~ Senmaya Honcho Art Festival Senmaya Honcho Shopping Street Iwate 2022 Cross Over Japanese Art Collective Bangkok 2023 INTERVENTIVE INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION M.A.D.S ART GALLERY MILAN Collaboration (design, live painting, etc.) 2004 ~ Vol 11 Chalumnae 3D Fes Live Paint Miyagi Shana Rishana Rhythm CD Jacket Design Tokyo 2014-2015 painting exhibition. At the same time, a driftwood easel was set up inside the booth Date Festival Miyagi 2015 Driftwood Easel Exhibition O'Hara Break Fukushima 2019 Collaboration between painting and dance Kyoto International Dance Festival Kyoto 2022 Deep Into the Deep Exhibition Former Ishii Prefectural Government Residence Iwate awarded Received the 2014 JADIF Award (JADIF) Received the 2015 JADIF Chairman's Director's Award (JADIF) 2016 Council Award Recipient (JADIF)
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