Takahiro Kimura "Dreams in Your Face"

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Takahiro Kimura

Takahiro Kimura's face paintings are made by cutting up tattered photos of faces and rearranging them into a collage, to which color is then applied, thereby creating a whole new visage with an unforgettable impact. Kimura first became attuned to the unique appeal of human faces around 20 years ago, and he has been working with them ever since as a prominent motif for his work. His signature style first became established in 1999 with his "Ganpa" series, which broke free of the realm of illustration and edged ever closer towards a kind of conceptual art. Many portraits from this series were exhibited at the Parco Gallery in Shibuya, where they attracted rave reviews. Since 2001, Kimura has evolved his interest in faces, producing a collaged animation series called Kimu Snake, which breathed new life into the hallucinatory, constantly mutating movements that emerge out of a single drawing.

This exhibition features work that returns to Kimura's roots. On display are around 30 new collage works that take on the challenge of how to capture the multi-dimensionality of the process of animation onto a single surface.

Talk show:
December 4th (Fri) doors open 18:00, starts 18:30
With Koichi Inoue (video creator) and Takahiro Kimura
Free entry
Reservation by phone required: 03-5459-6385（11:00-20:00 except Thu）

Schedule

Nov 27 (Fri) 2009-Dec 9 (Wed) 2009