Aoba Kanamori "Some Girls"
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Aoba Kanamori
Bambinart Gallery is pleased to present “Some Girls”, a solo exhibition by Aoba Kanamori.
Kanamori made his major debut with King Records as the guitarist for the rock band “tobaccojuice”, and has performed at major music festivals including RSR, Rock in Japan, and SUMMER SONIC. Alongside his musical career, he has pursued a wide range of creative activities as an illustrator, stuffed-animal artist, and picture-book author. He currently focuses primarily on painting.
Kanamori’s paintings emerge as fragments of a single “story.”
“When I paint, I start by setting the story. Without that, I lose track of what’s happening in the painting or what kind of mood it has,” he explains. His works resemble landscapes imbued with narrative, where the presence and silence of unseen characters seem to linger on the canvas.
In Kanamori’s works, narrative language and pictorial construction coexist.
“There’s a view that paintings don’t need words, and I understand that. But I also want to write prose, so I write it.
And I want to give my works cool titles, so I hope viewers will pay attention to those as well.”
With the addition of titles and short texts, the works unfold as “multi-layered stories” that resonate not only visually but also through the echoes of words.
The exhibition title “Some Girls” draws inspiration from the Rolling Stones’ 1978 album “Some Girls”.
Just as the Stones depicted social change and the complexity of human nature through diverse portrayals of women, Kanamori reconstructs emotions, relationships, and the spirit of the times on canvas through the theme of “Some Girls” What he depicts are not specific individuals, but symbolic figures representing human emotion itself—strength and fragility, longing and loneliness.
Kanamori made his major debut with King Records as the guitarist for the rock band “tobaccojuice”, and has performed at major music festivals including RSR, Rock in Japan, and SUMMER SONIC. Alongside his musical career, he has pursued a wide range of creative activities as an illustrator, stuffed-animal artist, and picture-book author. He currently focuses primarily on painting.
Kanamori’s paintings emerge as fragments of a single “story.”
“When I paint, I start by setting the story. Without that, I lose track of what’s happening in the painting or what kind of mood it has,” he explains. His works resemble landscapes imbued with narrative, where the presence and silence of unseen characters seem to linger on the canvas.
In Kanamori’s works, narrative language and pictorial construction coexist.
“There’s a view that paintings don’t need words, and I understand that. But I also want to write prose, so I write it.
And I want to give my works cool titles, so I hope viewers will pay attention to those as well.”
With the addition of titles and short texts, the works unfold as “multi-layered stories” that resonate not only visually but also through the echoes of words.
The exhibition title “Some Girls” draws inspiration from the Rolling Stones’ 1978 album “Some Girls”.
Just as the Stones depicted social change and the complexity of human nature through diverse portrayals of women, Kanamori reconstructs emotions, relationships, and the spirit of the times on canvas through the theme of “Some Girls” What he depicts are not specific individuals, but symbolic figures representing human emotion itself—strength and fragility, longing and loneliness.
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.bambinart.jp/exhibitions/aoba-kanamori-some-girls/ | ||||
| Venue | Bambinart Gallery http://www.bambinart.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 2F KI Bldg., 1-7-10 Higashikanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0031 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 2 at Bakurocho Station on the JR Sobu line, 6 minute walk from exit A4 at Iwamotocho Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 7 minute walk from exit A1 at Bakuro-yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6240-1973 | ||||
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