Bambinart Gallery is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition with the artist Yu Kimachi from February 12 through march 6, 2011. Kimachi (b.1984 in Nagano prefectural) graduated Tama Art University in 2008. While in school, she’d exhibited many group exhibitions. In 2010, her work was exhibited at the grand opening exhibition of 3331 Arts Chiyoda. Her objects of interest, such as animals, Buddha statue and characters from Manga or fairy tales, begin to have sacredness for her as her interest increase. As they are mixed and fused together, image becomes sacred melting pot. Drawings and paintings of Kimachi are created by a harmonious combination of parts of human or parts of animals, or animals themselves. There appears cartoony depiction in precise images which bring us to the brink between reality and unreality. Girls and animals, extracted from her sacred melting pot and drawn on canvas, seem they are praying to the God or worshipped as the God. The title of this exhibition “Melting Pot” means that a place where people from different races, countries, or social classes come to live together. In this exhibition, the space will be constructed based on the image of Buddha statue and small temples, which essentially make the interpretation of the world in the Buddhism visible, so that sacred melting pot of Kimachi will be visible.

* The text provided by Bambinart Gallery.

Opened dates: February 12 - March 6, 2011
Venue: Bambinart Gallery