Domestic Aliens: Hiroki Kakinuma x Yo Takagi

The theme here is not beauty but strangeness.

Hiroki Kakinuma and Yo Takagi share that one word, and this is their long-awaited two-person exhibition.

Both have been recognised at the Ueno Royal Museum Award Exhibition: Kakinuma with a prize in 2017, Takagi with the Grand Prize in 2015.

Kakinuma uses the specialist methods of classical oil painting to build panoramas, like stills from a science-fiction film, in which aliens and human beings meet. The aliens come wrapped in humour and are almost endearing, but the encounter with something genuinely foreign is an urgent subject for him.

Takagi, with a body built by manual labour, paints quiet and unsettling spaces. His descriptions have the weight of the real, and like a medium he gets down on the canvas the muttering of someone nobody looked at.

Centred on large canvases of 100 go and above (roughly 1.6 metres on the longer side), two singular painters show the strangeness that lies at the bottom of the imagination — and the peace that lies there too.

Exhibition Information

ExhibitionDomestic Aliens: Hiroki Kakinuma x Yo Takagi

DatesJuly 3 (Fri) – July 12 (Sun), 2020

VenueGallery SHUKADO

Hours10:00 - 18:00

Open until 20:00 on the opening day, Friday 3 July.

NotesOpen every day of the exhibition. Admission free. The artists expect to be at the gallery on the opening day and at weekends.

Works are also offered for sale in advance of the exhibition. Please enquire by telephone or email.

Web Exhibition: for those who cannot come to the gallery, the works will be viewable on the Shukado Contemporary site from noon on Monday 6 July.

The gallery is taking measures against the spread of the new coronavirus.

Website

Web Exhibition | 柿沼宏樹×髙木陽二人展ドメスティックエイリアンズ

Youtube : 展覧会のお知らせ！「柿沼宏樹×髙木陽二人展ドメスティックエイリアンズ」2020/7/3～

柿沼宏樹 Kakinuma Hiroki

柿沼宏樹「voice」

大根の花言葉は「潔白」、守り刀を添えて
埋もれてしまった声に耳を傾けられたら。（柿沼宏樹）

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.

More about this artist

髙木陽 Takagi Yo

髙木陽「一つになれない者たち」

シミュラクラ、パレイドリアの戯れ。「それ」が幾つも幾つも生まれ、集まり、一面に並べて眺めていると、利害、価値観、思想、宗教、言語の違い、地球は一つでも国家の数は197ヵ国だとか、そんな現実についつい意識がさらわれ、争いや平和についてさえ考えさせられたりする。（髙木陽）

Takagi Yo

イベント・作家在廊情報

【作家在廊情報】
7/3（金）　柿沼さんお昼ごろから在廊予定　髙木さん18:00以降在廊予定
7/4（土）　柿沼さん、髙木さんとも終日在廊予定
7/5（日）　柿沼さん、髙木さんともお昼過ぎから在廊予定
7/6（月）　柿沼さんお昼過ぎから在廊予定
7/11（土）　柿沼さん、髙木さんともお昼過ぎから在廊予定
7/12（日）　柿沼さん、髙木さんともお昼過ぎから在廊予定