Cignitta will host a solo exhibition by Kohei Arano, who remixes Japanese painting with street culture.
Niino's works depict images seen around town using traditional Japanese painting techniques, and the blank spaces on the canvas give the life-size landscapes a refreshing atmosphere. Influenced by 90s street culture, Niino is a popular artist who focuses on familiar beauty, and this is his first solo exhibition in Osaka.
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＜Exhibition Overview＞
Kohei Arano solo exhibition “Listen to the silence”
Venue: Cignitta (Takagi Building 1F, 1-13-21 Kyomachibori, Nishi-ku, Osaka)
Period: Saturday, September 21st to Sunday, September 29th
Time: 13:00~19:00 Free admission, no reservation required, open daily
Influenced by 90s films by Gus Van Sant, Terry Gilliam, Jim Jarmusch and others that he found among the ex-rental VHS tapes he scoured at a bargain sale around the time VHS was replaced by DVD, Niino's painting space has a narrative quality like a storyboard for a movie or anime, and is like the third frame of a manga, with scenes projected before and after it. He depicts universal everyday life as if it were a scene from a movie, and the frame on the screen represents the act of cutting out memories, something that everyone naturally does, in the same way as the frame layout seen in manga or storyboards.
As basic materials, he uses Japanese art materials such as glue, washi paper, and pigments such as chalk powder. Glue, washi paper, chalk powder, and pigments are traditional Japanese painting techniques that have been passed down in Japan since ancient times, and he creates works that combine Japanese painting techniques and street culture by mixing motifs influenced by movies and street culture while using the unique characteristics of these materials such as bleeding and drizzling techniques.
Furthermore, by giving the support thickness and giving it the qualities of a three-dimensional work, it becomes like a box that conveys the image of a cathode ray tube television.
Niino, who grew up in the downtown area of Tokyo, was interested in street culture such as wall art, skateboarding, and hip-hop, which he saw everywhere in the city, and was also influenced by the street culture he saw in LA when he went there alone, and came to recognize them as the colors of the city. He believes that the letters left on the walls of the city, the sound of skates on asphalt, and hip-hop samplings are signs that convey the history and atmosphere of the city.
By focusing on the elements that make up society, such as towns and people, and sampling (reconstructing) these perspectives, existing products and scenes emit pop colors that give off a sense of bright sunlight. He creates many works that create new images using life-sized motifs rooted in such daily life.
Kohei Arano
Born in Tokyo, he is based in Tokyo and mainly participates in exhibitions.
Influenced by street culture and movies, he creates works based on the motifs of pseudonymous people and scenes, and life-sized images rooted in daily life. He incorporates various pictorial elements such as white space and tagging (lettering) in his work, and creates works based on the theme of Japanese painting x street.
Independent Tokyo 2023 Tomio Koyama Award. 2023 metasequoia 2023 Junko Sasanuki Award. 1st Idemitsu Art Award (formerly Shell Art Award). Selected for the 39th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition. Selected for the 56th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition.
[Exhibition]
2024 Solo Exhibition [MESSAGE Charity Art Exhibition] Harakado/BAB THE COFFEE BREW CLUB
2024 [synchronicity] tagboat
2024 [Silver 925] DDD ART
2024 [Bunkamura Gallery Selection2024] Bunkamura Gallery
2024 [Tgboat Art Fair2024] Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Trade Center
2024 [YOU FEEL] Public Art in front of Shibuya Station
2024 [Japanese painting x street world] Daimaru Shinsaibashi Art Glory Gallery
2024 [scene4-Poems and Thoughts] JILL D'ART GALLERY
2024 [ART MARKET TENNOZ 2024] Warehouse Terada WHAT CAFE
2024 [ART TAINAN Tainan Art Exhibition 2024] SILKS PLACE TAINAN @Tainan, Taiwan
2024 [Orkudor Salon AOYAMA] 3rd MINAMI AOYAMA
2024 [ART FUTURE 2024] GRAND HYATT TAIPEI@Taipei, Taiwan
2023 [OCSD Charity Art Exhibition 2023] Barneys New York Ginza
2023 [metasequoia 2023] Osaka Fair
2023 Solo Exhibition [Kohei Arano Solo Exhibition] Shibuya Parco 3LFTN apartment
2023 [WHAT CAFE EXHIBITION vol.28] Warehouse Terada WHAT CAFE
2023 [MITATE] GOYO Gallery Formerly KATSUMI YAMATO GALLERY
2023 [EPIC PAINTERS Vol.11] the blank gallery
2022 Solo Exhibition [Kohei Arano Solo Exhibition] Gallery Andlinks81
2021 [3331 ART FAIR] Arts Chiyoda 3331
2021 Solo Exhibition [SILENT FILM] Gallery b.tokyo
2020 Solo Exhibition [Calendar-skit-]Art Space kimura ASK? P
Participated in many other group exhibitions
[Awards]
2023 metasequoia 2023 Junko Sasanuki Award
2023 Independent Tokyo 2023 Tomio Koyama Award
2023 3rd Artist New Gate Finalist
Selected for the 1st Idemitsu Art Award (formerly the Shell Art Award) in 2022/The National Art Center, Tokyo
2022 Independent Tokyo 2022 KATSUMI YAMAT0 Award (currently GOYO GALLERY)
2021 3331 ART FAIR Collector Prize Award
Selected for the 56th Kanagawa Prefectural Art Exhibition 2021/Kanagawa Prefectural Hall
2021 17th World Painting Grand Prix Exhibition Muse Award (Sponsor Award) / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
2021 39th Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition Selected/Ueno Royal Museum
2020 16th World Painting Grand Prix Exhibition Sam Trading Award (Sponsor Award) / Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum
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