22 Nov - 4 Dec
Opening Hours: Monday-Saturday, 11am-7pm final day -to 5pm
Closed on Sundays & National holidays (23 Nov, 28 Nov close)
All the new works reflect her recent experience in Greece, where she stayed from 2008 to 2009 by the aid of the Japanese government scholarship.
In spite of the image of Greece with bright sunshine and blue sky, what she painted are, a stray dog at mid-night Plaka, or a half-sleeping pinkish pelican on the back alley of Nikos-Mykonos Island, or a big tree with the silent birds in the gray sky of Thissio, Athens, etc.
They appeal something unusual, almost surrealistic. Her imagination has been derived from the deep thoughts concerning the complex of time - past and present, night and day or death and life. Especially in Athens, surrounded by the ancient remains, she strongly felt the continuation of the lives from the ancient days to the present among the intimate Greek people.
She expresses this feeling by arranging two opposite elements, such as micro and macro, or distant and near, or old and young, in one painting. We can say that she is very successful to express the mysterious feeling of time in this way and we are guided to its labyrinth.
[Back alley of Nokos-Mykonos Island]
2010 oil on canvas 803×803mm
[Backyard-Athens]
2009 oil on canvas 1620×1140mm
| Biography of Kaori WATANABE | |
| 1962 | Born in Kanagawa |
| 1986 | Graduated from Department of Oil Painting, Tama Art University |
| 1988 | Finished the Postgraduate Course at Tama Art University |
| 1989 | Went to Italy as an Italy governmental stipendiary |
| 1993 | Graduated from Department of Painting, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze |
| 2008-2009 | Stayed in Greece by the Japanese Government Overseas Study Program for Artists |
| [Solo Exhibitions] | |
| 2010 | Kaori WATANABE Exhibition -Recent Works, Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2009 | BEYOND ART GALLERY, Athens, Greece |
| 2008 | Kaori WATANABE Exhibition, Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2007 | [-Libera me Libera me-] Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2004 | [Meat Eater's Dining Room] Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2002 | [City on the City City under the City] Galleria Grafica Tokio, Tokyo |
| 2000 | [Painting Re-woven] galleria grafica bis, Tokyo |
| 2000 | Art Gallery II, ART G, Gallery Lime, Gunma |
| 1999 | galleria grafica bis, Tokyo |
| 1995 | galleria grafica bis, Tokyo |
| 1994 | Tanishima Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1988 | Kobayashi Gallery, Tokyo |
| 1986 | Gallery Natsuka, Tokyo |
| 1985 | G.Art Gallery, Tokyo |
| [Group Exhibitions] | |
| 2010 | Art Taipei 2010, Taiwan |
| 2009 | Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2009, Tokyo Bijyutsu Club, Tokyo |
| 2008 | Art Taipei 2008, Taiwan Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2008, Tokyo Bijyutsu Club, Tokyo |
| 2007 | Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2007, Tokyo Bijyutsu Club, Tokyo |
| 2006 | Exhibition of Seven Contemporary Artists Galleria Grafica, Tokyo |
| 1997 | [Exhibition by Kaori Watanabe & Tadafumi Kobachi] galleria grafica bis, Tokyo |
| 1996 | ['96 Annual Show] galleria grafica bis, Tokyo |
| 1993 | Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Firenze, Italy |
| 1991 | Accademia d'Arte Dino Scalabrino (Centro Miro) Montecatini Terme, Italy Galleria Spazio Uno, Firenze, Italy |
| 1987 | [Workshop of expression] Kaminoge campus of Tama Art University, Tokyo [Metamorphotion I] Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Kanagawa |
| 1986 | [Workshop of expression] Kaminoge campus of Tama Art University, Tokyo |
| 1984 | [Luxurious Reflection] gallery Parergon II, Tokyo |