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Artist Information

 

Kenji Nagahama

Country(activity based)：
Japan
Genre：
Fine Art
Nationality：
Japan

Profile

1978  Born in Hokkaido, Japan
1999  Graduated from Hokkaido College of Art and Design

 

Selected Solo Exhibition
2006  "Tokyo Wonder Wall 2006 Kenji Nagahama Solo Exhibition,"
            Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Selected Group Exhibitions
2007  "Wonder Seeds 2007," Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya
          "SHINJUKU ART ∞ pre-EXHIBITION,"
           the temporary enclosure at Marui City Shinjuku, Tokyo
          "TWS Art cafe extension !!," Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya

2006  "Tokyo Wonder Wall 2006,"
           jury president's award, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

2005  "The 15th Art Salon Exbition,"
            Asahi Seimei Gallery, Shinjuku Center Building, Tokyo
          "The 23th IZUBI," Sightseeing hall, Ito, Shizuoka

2003  "The 21th IZUBI," Sightseeing hall Ito, Shizuoka
          "The 20th FUKUI thumbhole Art Exhibition,"
           Fukui Culture Center

Other
2006  appeared on TV program "Tokyo, Boy".

About works / performance

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Comment

What I depict in paintings is the diversity of emotional patterns. I combine emotional scenery born of the madness and loneliness deep in the heart, the desire and the reason, and the love, etc., incorporating the visual elements of a young girl. Looking objectively at the title of this work, Zeppeki ni Saku Hanatachi (Flower Blooming on a Precipice), a flower that seems to be isolated from all the others, pitifully clinging to fragile life, can conversely be seen as bravely persevering to survive and therefore beautiful and important in its individuality. The objective I was aiming for as I painted this was to express the way that eccentric young girls who seek to distance themselves from the fleeting world possess a pain and beauty, different from that of other people, hidden within them.
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