Exhibition

mariane -Sumika -
October 17 (wed.) − November 10 (sat.),  2012
Hours : 12:00 - 19:00
Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

About Exhibition

Mariane (Maiko Matsuo) was born in São Paulo, Brazil and spent her girlhood in Singapore. In 2003, she graduated Kyoto Saga Art College with a degree in Illustration. Her painting was described as: 'painted with incredibly high painting skills but spontaneously unfolded on the works’ when she received the Incentive Award at the 10th Gunma Biennale for Young Artists 2010.
 In her paintings, bright colored and strangely formed creatures painted by sensitive brush strokes and they are hard to recognize animals or plants. Their appearance looks like creatures live in deep waters or the tropics and make us feel coquettishly tempted. However, at the same time, they seem to radiate a happy-go-lucky atmosphere and we feel as if we are teased by them. In painting, she always has a motivation to create a primitive energy to live life by seizing the swaying body senses. These bizarre creatures in her paintings are one of numerous images of life she has.
 The title of this exhibition is “-sumika-". In this second time solo exhibition at Gallery Jin, 12 new acrylic gouache paintings on Japanese paper are exhibited.