Hiroki Kakinuma paints a world of his own in which other species and human beings, the uncanny and the everyday, run into one another. The strange creatures that seem to be part chicken and part human return again and again in his work, and they stay with you.
They are more than invention. Each has a character and a presence, as though something had taken up residence inside it. Chief among them is the figure he calls Chicken Sapiens, his best-known motif and a favourite with many.
Chicken Sapiens has now been made as a three-dimensional figure for the first time. It gives Kakinuma’s vision another kind of life, and lets far more people meet this creature close up.
The figure was released early at an art fair in the Philippines in February 2025, where the whole local allocation sold out.
At Shukado we are showing the figure together with new paintings.
We hope you will enjoy the strange world Hiroki Kakinuma has made.

Hiroki Kakinuma paints a world of his own in which other species and human beings, the uncanny and the everyday, run into one another. The strange creatures that seem to be part chicken and part human return again and again in his work, and they stay with you.

They are more than invention. Each has a character and a presence, as though something had taken up residence inside it. Chief among them is the figure he calls Chicken Sapiens, his best-known motif and a favourite with many.

Chicken Sapiens has now been made as a three-dimensional figure for the first time. It gives Kakinuma’s vision another kind of life, and lets far more people meet this creature close up.

The figure was released early at an art fair in the Philippines in February 2025, where the whole local allocation sold out.

At Shukado we are showing the figure together with new paintings.

We hope you will enjoy the strange world Hiroki Kakinuma has made.

Exhibition Information
ExhibitionHiroki Kakinuma: CHICKEN
DatesMay 10 (Sat) – May 17 (Sat), 2025
VenueGallery SHUKADO
Hours10:00 - 18:00
NotesClosed Sunday 11 and Monday 12 May.

Admission free.
柿沼宏樹「9 a.m.」(2025)
柿沼宏樹「9 a.m.」(2025)
柿沼

【柿沼はなぜ鶏を描くのか】

「鶏」や「チキン」と聞いて、思い浮かぶものは食べ物でしょうか。そんな彼らに尊厳を与えたものを、知恵を意味するラテン語を用いてチキンサピエンスと名付けました。弱さと強さを併せ持つ彼らの捉えがたい容姿に、印象と実態が異なる「人々」や「現代社会」を重ねています。絵画によって記録される時代の観測点として、チキンサピエンスを描いています。

チキンサピエンスのフィギュアを限定発売!
先行発売のフィリピンでも大人気、現地分は完売いたしました!
先行発売のフィリピンでも大人気、現地分は完売いたしました!
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商品詳細

CHICKEN SAPIENS
(チキンサピエンス・フィギュア)

価格:55,000円(税込)
縦:24.5cm
横:10.0cm
奥行:7.5cm

オリジナルデザインの箱入り 限定6体

【抽選方法】
受付期間:5月10日(土)10:00 ~ 5月17日(土)19:00
受付方法:Google form、電話、メール、会場手書き
> Google formはこちら
抽選結果連絡:5月20日(火)12:00~13:00 電話にて

【フィギュアでのこだわりは?】
とくに力を入れたのが顔の造形です。普段、チキンサピエンスを描く際に気を配っているのが「捉えどころのない表情」です。それを立体作品でも表現できるよう、下絵からこだわりました。
また、支えなしで自立するところもポイントです。飾る際はフィギュアスタンドなどがあると良いですが、一応自力でも立ちます。

【作る工程で大変だったところは?】
造形全般です。平面作品を立体に起こすためには、形の解釈を変える必要がありました。例えば、普段は油絵具の粘性を活かして描いている羽にも、立体となると1枚ずつに具体的な造形が求められます。どこから見ても違和感のないものに仕上げるために、制作はいつも手探りでした。3Dデザイナーさんにも辛抱強くご対応頂き、満足のいくものが出来上がりました。

Hiroki Kakinuma
He is good at depicting a grandpanoramic world which develops between foreign materials and human beings,and abnormal days mingled withquotidian affairs.
Untraceable “Bird Man” vs Human being, huge monster destroying towers and buildings vs daily life,city life vs suburban life etc.. They co-exists in mysterious harmony.
What he paints may be the scenefrom special effects shooting orour relationship with its shooting, or we, the tourists, strolling over indecent chaotic Asian quarters.
In our modern time we live in the hustle and bustle of the citybumping each other but somehow managing to live in harmony,in spite of many contradictions.His paintings may well be a diorama reflecting our real life.