"kitchen" Fumi Karibe June 2013, 6 - June 3, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2013, 6 (Monday) - April 3, 2013 (Friday)
Exhibitor: Fumi Karibe (3rd year, Western Painting Course, Fine Arts Major)
We will exhibit oil paintings and other works with the theme of the kitchen.
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When I heard that the exhibition was themed on kitchens, I had no idea how to depict the kitchen. Because the kitchen is such an intimate part of our daily lives, I felt it would be difficult to capture it as a subject matter - whether to depict it objectively or emotionally.
The entire exhibition had a broad theme of eating and cooking, but I think it would have been more interesting if it had focused solely on the kitchen.From her paintings, I sense that she is trying to look at the kitchen objectively, while also getting the impression that it is a place that is familiar to her and that she has a strong emotional attachment to. When I look at the kitchens she has painted, I feel that they are somehow like portraits of the artist.
The kitchen is painted from the perspective of someone standing just behind the sink. A spatula hangs in front, a microwave and a refrigerator to the left, and a milk carton to the right. While depicting the kitchen "just as it is" as an object and a place, the artist also tries to express emotions by changing the colors to reflect reality. The reason she had him paint the kitchen was not just because she wanted to leave a record of the kitchen, but also because she wanted to superimpose her own appearance - from the time she started living alone until now - onto the kitchen and look at herself. (Okano Emiko)
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