Bambinart Gallery
We primarily host continuous exhibitions of works
mainly by young artists in our gallery/art office, which is named
BAMBINART GALLERY. We are planning to promote progress and development
in the area of art, through introducing photo and media artists to the
world in collaboration with industries and the other spaces.
http://www.bambinart.jp/
Tokyo, the centre of Japan, is a city which
has developed over 400 years and continues to evolve, facing many problems yet
even now continuing to absorb. The present day city of 13,000,000 has a
multiplicity of values, consumes daily vast amounts of information, even in
exhaustion it continues to push on, something which will never change. Tokyo is
a hub, a hub for Japan’s many regions, while also acting as a global hub which
brings together people and cultures from all over the world, fusing, mixing and
becoming yet another new culture.
Risa Kohno (b.1982, Tokyo), born and brought up in Tokyo,
depicts in her work her personal utopia, where guardian angels inhabit a
sparkling after-world. Yu Kimachi’s (b. 1984, Nagano) finely depicted characters
have a seemingly strange existence, yet come to naturally construct the world
contained within each of his works. Here is a phenomenon which can be likened to
the dichotic existence of the city with its hidden layers and its exposed
surfaces. (Kei Yoneyama)
<Selected Artists>Yu Kimachi, Risa Kohno
来海優|Yu KIMACHI
Born in Nagano in 1984. BFAs, TAMA ART UNIVERSITY. Selected
exhibitions; “HitoHito”(Bambinart Gallery), “SHADOWY TALE”(gallery ni
mode).
"blooming" 2008
gesso, panel, penci
Courtesy of the Artist & Bambinart Gallery
Tokyo is a city that where ever you go there is always a particular
aroma. There is no space which does not exude a certain scent. When
you are outside there is the smell of gas, the drains, the delicious
smell coming from some shop. In the subway there is that distinctive
smell of moisture, earth, drainage all mixed together, the smell of
the underground. In the train is the smell of perfume and sweat, the
smell of the body. In just a very small space a multitude of odors
come together. In this city there is an overload of visual
information, yet at the same time there is a mass of information also
claiming our sense of smell.
河野里沙|Risa KOHNO
Risa Kohno/ Born in Tokyo in 1982. BFA Tokyo University of the Arts,
2007. MFA Tokyo University of the Arts, 2009. Awarded “shu uemura
prize” at Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2009. Held her first solo
exhibition at “GALLERY at lammfromm” in 2010.
Kohno has also designed cosmetic products in collaboration with Shu Uemura, which will be in stores this summer.
"silent paradise in a forest" 2009
oil paint, cotton
Courtesy of the Artist & Bambinart Gallery
As someone who was born and brought up in Tokyo my image of the city
is that of an exciting place where many interesting and stimulating
things come together. Recently in the magazine “Vogue Nippon” I was
introduced in an article entitled “Tokyo Kawaii(cute) Girl’s Art and
Jewelry”, this has led me to consider the term Tokyo Kawaii (Tokyo
Cute). Just by seeing something beautiful or cute is enough to lighten
one’s heart. It is this “Kawaii” which I wish to see taking life
through the city.
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