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Naoko Majima “Jigokuraku”
Ashikaga Museum of Art
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Naoko Majima
Naoko Majima (b. 1944) has been creating installations and sculptures with paint and objects throughout her career. She became recognized as a leading Japanese artist with her “Jigokuraku” (Hell-Paradise) series started in 1990. Her “Pencil Pictures” series, begun around 2000, are elaborate works of pencil on paper or canvas that stand on their own as artworks rather than simply as sketches or studies.
Majima’s work understands the cycle of birth and death as the fundamental condition of human existence, and both her black and white drawings and her multicolored sculptures express a single world. The savagery and delicacy of her art is a confrontation of our true natures. The title “Jigokuraku” combining the words “hell” (jigoku) and “paradise” (gokuraku) is the artist’s own coinage; in addition to expressing the state of her creative practice, it also alludes to our own lives.
In recent years Majima resumed oil painting, which she had abandoned for a while, and has now begun showing these works again. This exhibition introduces the trajectory of her career with works from her “Jigokuraku” series as well as recent oil paintings.
Majima’s work understands the cycle of birth and death as the fundamental condition of human existence, and both her black and white drawings and her multicolored sculptures express a single world. The savagery and delicacy of her art is a confrontation of our true natures. The title “Jigokuraku” combining the words “hell” (jigoku) and “paradise” (gokuraku) is the artist’s own coinage; in addition to expressing the state of her creative practice, it also alludes to our own lives.
In recent years Majima resumed oil painting, which she had abandoned for a while, and has now begun showing these works again. This exhibition introduces the trajectory of her career with works from her “Jigokuraku” series as well as recent oil paintings.
Schedule | Apr 24 (Tue) 2018-Jul 1 (Sun) 2018 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥700, University & High School Students ¥500, Junior High Students & Under Free | ||||
| Venue | Ashikaga Museum of Art | ||||
| Location | 2-14-7 Tori, Ashikaga-shi, Tochigi 326-0814 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from the North exit of Ashikagashi Station on the Tobu Isesaki line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Ashikaga Station on the JR Ryomo line. | ||||
| Phone | 0284-43-3133 | ||||
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