Born in Ehime in 1953, Kazumi Yoshimine now resides and works in Tokyo. Studied art history at the Linnean Society, Royal Academy of Arts, London in 1995. Finished Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1996 and got Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 1998. After her return to Japan in 1998, she periodically holds exhibitions mainly in Tokyo.

Although Yoshimine starts with actual landscape or interior scene of a building as the motif of her paintings, in the course of her creation, she reduces the form of the subject and her paintings getting into the areas of abstract painting configured with flat color plane. Come and go between the abstract and the figurative, it explores the meaning of fundamental “seeing” prior to the word. In addition, presented in her paintings with the landscape or the interior scene that have been abstracted to the ultimate is the time only describable in painting, that can not be represented in the photos or videos. It is a vague time impossible to be concluded whether it stops or persists, inviting the viewer to a variety of imagination and far memory.

This is the second one-person show by Yoshimine at Taguchi Fine Art. We are very much looking forward to your visit.

［Artist statement］
I am exploring the possibility of painting in relation with other media as photography and video, focusing on two issues. One is how I can capture in the image the relationship of time and space, which are the characteristic of painting. And the other is what to see things is. I want to express without being caught in a specific location or position the state of interior of the building or nature that are familiar to me, observing them carefully and simplify them to the point that we can hardly recognize what it is. I believe with this the viewer will be wavering between the recognition and the perception. At the same time I think such an experience must be similar to a practice to find out our uncertain life (and death).

With the works titled “Fragment of Memory”, I am considering how the image formed by the relation between time and space, that is a quality of painting, is deeply connected with our memory.

Kazumi Yoshimine