Akiko KinugawaKinugawa, Akiko

Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design Department of Fine Arts Oil Painting Course

1986年	Born in Chiba Prefecture
2011年	Solo exhibition “People and People and Others and People” Gallery b.Tokyo, Tokyo Group exhibition “Essential Ongoing ~Silence and Madness~” Shinko Pier, Yokohama
2012年	Completed oil painting course at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Art and Design.

untitled 2011 1500×2400×40mm cotton cloth, oil painting

Author's comment

It's not a portrait of someone that symbolizes something, it's meant to be experienced as a face-to-face experience.
People reflexively try to empathize with even pictures.

Judge's review

It's not a portrait of someone that symbolizes something, it's meant to be experienced as a face-to-face experience. As Kinogawa comments, what appears in a painting is something like a ``sign'' or ``sign.'' When people see flames or fog, they project various meanings to the shape that rises within them, and feel them at the same time. Kinogawa's works can be enjoyed within this realm of sensitivity. (Yuko Hasegawa)