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Chihiro Yoshioka "Griglie"
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Chihiro Yoshioka
Artcourt Gallery is excited to present an exhibition by Chihiro Yoshioka. The exhibition title “griglie” is the plural of “griglia,” which is Italian for grate or grid.
From roses blooming in gardens and autumn leaves gleaming under azure skies to the garments worn by saints on icons, Yoshioka takes things and scenes encountered during her daily routine or travels and “copies” them to a grid drawn on the canvas to produce a painting. When she translates the discrepancies between reality and perception highlighted by that process, the gaps in memory, into understated brushwork characterized by omission and supplementation or uses pigment in multiple variations of the same color to explore the colors that drift across her memory, it could be said that
the very theme of her painting production lies in the intimate yet unshrinkable distance, that elusive space, between herself and the subject.
The “incommunicable that resides in the gap Yoshioka detects between real and image is offered to the viewer wrapped in multiple layers, courtesy of the careful superimposing of colors and delicate touches on the grid, and of various painting-related questions—of illusion and planarity, figure and ground, temporality—supplemented by the viewer’s own imagination to form an even richer tapestry of imagery, still drifting.
“Something identical to that seen in front exists not with it at all, but in a state of subtle misalignment.”
For Yoshioka, who, when she sees objects and paints pictures, is fascinated by this state of existence, the grid serves as a baseline that allows the image as a whole and the “misalignment” to coexist in the act of “copying” while maintaining a certain distance between subject, picture plane, and self, and also as a way to bind the viewer’s consciousness to the transparent membrane that makes the painting possible, but which itself cannot be seen.
Alongside a renewed focus on the grids that form the backbone of Yoshioka’s painting, this first solo show by the artist in six years, since 2017, also aims to embody and share the precarious presence that is “color” through a new group of works featuring new motifs such as lemons and flagstones, as well as her long ongoing sub rosa series.
From roses blooming in gardens and autumn leaves gleaming under azure skies to the garments worn by saints on icons, Yoshioka takes things and scenes encountered during her daily routine or travels and “copies” them to a grid drawn on the canvas to produce a painting. When she translates the discrepancies between reality and perception highlighted by that process, the gaps in memory, into understated brushwork characterized by omission and supplementation or uses pigment in multiple variations of the same color to explore the colors that drift across her memory, it could be said that
the very theme of her painting production lies in the intimate yet unshrinkable distance, that elusive space, between herself and the subject.
The “incommunicable that resides in the gap Yoshioka detects between real and image is offered to the viewer wrapped in multiple layers, courtesy of the careful superimposing of colors and delicate touches on the grid, and of various painting-related questions—of illusion and planarity, figure and ground, temporality—supplemented by the viewer’s own imagination to form an even richer tapestry of imagery, still drifting.
“Something identical to that seen in front exists not with it at all, but in a state of subtle misalignment.”
For Yoshioka, who, when she sees objects and paints pictures, is fascinated by this state of existence, the grid serves as a baseline that allows the image as a whole and the “misalignment” to coexist in the act of “copying” while maintaining a certain distance between subject, picture plane, and self, and also as a way to bind the viewer’s consciousness to the transparent membrane that makes the painting possible, but which itself cannot be seen.
Alongside a renewed focus on the grids that form the backbone of Yoshioka’s painting, this first solo show by the artist in six years, since 2017, also aims to embody and share the precarious presence that is “color” through a new group of works featuring new motifs such as lemons and flagstones, as well as her long ongoing sub rosa series.
Schedule | Nov 11 (Sat) 2023-Dec 16 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.artcourtgallery.com/exhibitions/15543/ | ||||
| Venue | Artcourt Gallery https://www.artcourtgallery.com/eng/ | ||||
| Location | 1F OAP Art Court, 1-8-5 Tenmabashi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka 530-0042 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from the West exit of Sakuranomiya Station on the JR Loop line, 10 minute walk from exit 9 at Minami-morimachi Station on the Tanimachi and Sakaisuji subway lines, 10 minute walk from exit 9 at Osakatenmangu Station on the JR Tozai line | ||||
| Phone | 06-6354-5444 | ||||
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