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Tomoro Yamanaka Exhibition
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Tomoro Yamanaka
Tomoro Yamanaka was born in 1997. After graduating from Oita University of Arts in 2020, he began his activities as an illustrator under the name "Tomoro Yamanaka." He is currently based in Fukuoka.
His series of works titled "Beautiful Hair (Urukami)" with impressive black hair is inspired by the model Sayoko Yamaguchi who was active in the Showa era, and it explores the beauty and sorrow inherent in people. In his creation process, he combines traditional Japanese colors and techniques of traditional crafts with modern masking work and illustration techniques. The black hair is created using a brush marking technique, where randomly scattered paints eventually converge along the same trajectory, evoking something reminiscent of fate in life. He presents a perspective that finds beauty in things that change and age with the flow, and he adopts an attitude of learning from the old and updating it in the contemporary context.
In this exhibition, along with new works that evoke transience even within splendor, such as "Beautiful Hair" using gold leaf, inspired by seeing gold leaf paintings in the Honmaru Palace of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Yamanaka will also exhibit drawings done in pencil.
His series of works titled "Beautiful Hair (Urukami)" with impressive black hair is inspired by the model Sayoko Yamaguchi who was active in the Showa era, and it explores the beauty and sorrow inherent in people. In his creation process, he combines traditional Japanese colors and techniques of traditional crafts with modern masking work and illustration techniques. The black hair is created using a brush marking technique, where randomly scattered paints eventually converge along the same trajectory, evoking something reminiscent of fate in life. He presents a perspective that finds beauty in things that change and age with the flow, and he adopts an attitude of learning from the old and updating it in the contemporary context.
In this exhibition, along with new works that evoke transience even within splendor, such as "Beautiful Hair" using gold leaf, inspired by seeing gold leaf paintings in the Honmaru Palace of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Yamanaka will also exhibit drawings done in pencil.
Schedule | May 27 (Mon) 2024-Jun 23 (Sun) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Website | https://store.tsite.jp/kyoto/event/t-site/40090-0936350423.html | ||
| Venue | Kyoto Tsutaya Books https://store.tsite.jp/kyoto/ | ||
| Location | 5, 6F Kyoto Takashimaya, 35 Otabi-cho, Shimogyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 600-8002 | ||
| Access | Direct walk from Kyoto-kawaramachi Station on the Hankyu line, 5 minute walk from exit 3 at Gion-shijo Station on the Keihan line. | ||
| Phone | 075-606-4525 | ||
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