Ishii Kaion Solo Exhibition "warp"

biscuit gallery is pleased to present Amane Ishii solo exhibition “warp” from May 5 (Thursday), 2022.

Amane Ishii solo exhibition “warp” will be held across two floors, the 1st and 2nd floors of biscuit gallery, centering on portrait works.

Ishii speaks of wanting to “throw his paintings far away.” To express that he wants his paintings to remain for many years by throwing them far away—this is a sensibility very much like Ishii. One can sense an active nuance, as if projecting works into a different tense from the present. Now, into a place different from here, like the casting of dice, the works are thrown.

Works we ordinarily see in museums and such have been cast into countless eras and yet remain in the present. Certainly, the way people see changes, and paintings age. Yet paintings, in principle, live in time longer than people. Across time and space, people encounter objects from distant ages.

The title “warp” given to this solo exhibition contains, alongside the movement between dimensions of pictorial space, Ishii’s quiet longing and wishes toward paintings that have endured the warping of spacetime in such a manner.

Amane Ishii “Astral Projection” 2022

Text by Shu Okamoto

 

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Artist Profile

Amane Ishii

Born in Osaka Prefecture, 1994.

Paints windows, mirrors, and paintings within paintings. Like the young girls who move freely within them, paintings themselves too have warped across eras, places, and techniques. In this current age, I think daily about what kind of paintings I, who lives through culture, can create.

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