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Yoshimi MIYAMOTO: immortal plant
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Written by KALONSNET Editor   
Published: November 12 2010

"Hydrangea" (2010); watercolor and acrylic on cotton|130.3*162cm
Courtesy of IMURA ART GALLERY

Yoshimi MIYAMOTO, born in 1981 inFukuoka, graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts with master's degree in 2008. 
In 2010, she was nominated for Maeda Kanzi Prize Exhibition, which was founded for the purpose to explore the possibilities of realism. And she will participate in the group exhibition ARTISTIC CHRISTMAS vol.Ⅳ at Shinjuku Takashimaya in December 2010.

She paints plants in monochrome, which is serene and beautiful, feeling light, fantastic and beautiful world. She used to paint from photos of pressed and bleached flowers. But now she put dried flowers in water, and taking photos of them, from which she paints her works. The beauty of flower is its shape, color and fragrance, but she removes those beauties once by making it a pressed flower and dried flower. Life has the beginning, and there is the end, the life of the flower is particularly short. She wants to keep the flower with the form that will not change all the time. So she changes flesh flower to dried flower or pressed flower. She catches the instant expression of beautiful plants wavering with light underwater by taking photos of them and painting with delicate graded wash.

When I design No.300, the image of Virgin Mary in the Louvre crossed my mind. The centered petal is shining white, which is surrounded by defocused black petals and stems. This image reminds me of the Virgin Mary painted in the center and wriggling people around her. The image I intend to create is free activities of living organisms. It is like dancing flower petals. It is pulsation. It is enthusiastic dance. But time stops and sinks under the water. I express the former by sketching and the later by gradation from white to black. Many stems are painted in my works. The reason of this is still unknown.
- Yoshimi MIYAMOTO

* The text provided by IMURA ART GALLERY.


Opened dates: November 6 - 27, 2010, 11:00 - 19:00, closed on Sun., Mon., and national holidays

Last Updated on November 06 2010
 

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