Main Gallery Area Artist
Artist Information
Kazumi Shimode
1983 Born in Ishikawa
2008 M.A.Kanazawa College Of Art,Oil Painting
2016 “VOCA2016”, The Royal Ueno Museum(Tokyo,Japan)
2016 “Shell Artist Selection(SAS)2016”, The National Art Center, Tokyo(Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Stiff Garden”, ge-Shuku(Ishikawa,Japan)
Grass sways in the wind, creating a new area to shake.
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[Comment by Selector]
At the center of a painting by Kazumi Shimode is, in most cases, a girl. At a glance these girls are fragile and hurting, with delicate selves, and Shimode seems to protect them in her paintings. The numerous colorful lines passing over their bodies look as if they are tubes to heal their wounds, or barricades of self-restraint. However, perhaps because the vivid colors are in amazing harmony, upon observing the corners of the canvas carefully the impression changes completely. This effect is fascinating. Her figures may be quietly storing the nutrition from plants, at some point to break out of their cocoon and begin to step forward powerfully. The essence of Shimode is a glimpse of what lies on the other side of peripheral fragility.