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Mana Konishi "Alex"

Urano
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Artists

Mana Konishi
Mana Konishi’s landscapes and portraits are painted with graciously unconstrained and sensual brushstrokes, as well as a unique sense of color. Her painting distances itself from viewers with its creation of a serene and unreal world of uncertainty.

In creating her works, Konishi first selects photographs from numerous snapshots for motifs and layouts. These photographs serve to give a general sense of what to draw, and are merely a starting point for her creative expression. Her interest is not to paint these scenes and figures realistically, but rather to fill them with unique stories, creating a seemingly illusory world for her paintings.

Rather than images that would give a clear view of the finished painting, selected photographs are nondescript. Konishi chooses photographs that feel oddly incomplete, and imagines new stories for them. Moving her brush stimulates more thoroughly the artist’s subconscious world of imagery, and paintings become visualized through this process.

In this exhibition, Konishi presents portraits featuring her son, Alex. She has been working with portraits in recent years, and it has been three years since "Portraits", herlast solo show in 2009.

[Image: Mana Konishi "Alex Sleeping (August, 2011)" (2011) Oil on canvas, h.41 × w.32 cm. Photo: Ikuhiro Watanabe]

Schedule

Jan 14 (Sat) 2012-Feb 26 (Sun) 2012 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
11:00-18:00
Fridays closing at 20:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays

Opening Reception Jan 14 (Sat) 2012 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
VenueUrano
https://urano.tokyo
Location3F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002
Access8 minute walk from Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail or Rinkai line. From JR Shinagawa station, take the Toei bus (towards Yashio Park Town), and get off at Tennouzubashi. The venue is 3 minute walk from there.
Phone03-6433-2303
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