TAB Event - Minako Abe Exhibition

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At Base Gallery
Media: Painting, Art Party

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Abe's working process begins with the computer processing of landscape photographs. When these images are shaken, familiar and preexisting scenes become twisted and distorted, producing unexpected colors and shapes. These warped scenes are then photographed and then painted on canvases not with a brush, but with a roller. This technique, which cannot be properly executed with a brush, achieves a matte flatness. If these landscapes are meant to be patterned after human faces, they seem to disclose the many "faces" of human emotion and expression: crying, anger, laughter. Abe's paintings make us realize the wealth of emotion hidden just beneath the surface of landscapes that surround us, rendered visible by a slight distortion seen through a different perspective.

This is Abe's first solo exhibition in two years. Her style seems to have rigidified, and her new works are much anticipated by overseas collectors.

[Image: "Scene No. 15" (2008), oil on canvas, 130x160cm]

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