altoyo will exhibit the works of Mitsue Tanaka, who creates mainly watercolor paintings, oil paintings, and objects.
Gorgeous embroidery on dresses with puffy sleeves, intricate floral patterns on carpets and tapestries...
The work involves creating motifs that interest him (such as passages from books he has read in the past, inspiration from religious paintings, etc.) using sensual colors and designs while incorporating the touch of painting.
The works, which sometimes offer a pop feel and sometimes a quiet darkness, may play the role of storytellers who straddle the border between modern and classical.
Please take your time and enjoy the world of paintings revealed through Tanaka's works.
・Profile Mitsue Tanaka
Graduated from Tama Art University, Faculty of Painting, majoring in oil painting. Creates mainly watercolor paintings, oil paintings, and objects.
He repeatedly repeats and experiments by reconstructing materials taken from everyday life and inspiration from books.
・Artist Statement
Gorgeous embroidery on dresses with puffy sleeves, intricate floral patterns on carpets and tapestries.
There you can see shapes and structures with repetition and regularity.
A standard composition that uses attributes (things that are added to identify people and scenes) in religious paintings.
Gods, people, animals and plants become symbols through repetition.
Let's look at it in a broad sense as a pattern.
Repeated types, forms, and patterns.
By creating patterns, images become massy and symbolic.
Let the inspired patterns sink into you and rebuild them.
It becomes an experiment that breathes new life into a respectful homage.
Event period: October 21st (Sat) ~ November 5th (Sun)
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