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Akari Karugane solo exhibition

Artists with whom we share a connection—and galleries both at home and abroad—come together to create moments of coffee and sweets. We also host an exhibition of artists here at Kurohime. Experience the ambiance of those moments, the people you can only meet in that place, the fleeting instants as time shifts, the utensils crafted for coffee and sweets, and the display arrangements. We present these records.

Akari Karugane  solo exhibition

故金あかり  - 個展 ○ △ □ -

珈琲 占野として僕らの暮らすこの北信州は信濃町、黒姫の地に於いて「個展」を行うことは初めての試み、故金さんとは約1年前くらいからお互いの場を行き来して対話を重ねてその形を探ってきました。

毎度決まった形にはめ込むのではなく色濃く移りゆく四季の中、その一瞬一瞬で変わる自然の中に作品を落とす。自然界にはあまり存在しない○△□と日常(自然)との心地の良い違和感。

色で溢れる彼女の作品は自然との色と混ざり合うこともなく、しかし埋もれることもなくそこに存在してくれていました。

その日の光、風、雨、、 
呼応する様に故金さんの色にまた新たな表情が重なった気がします。

今回の挑戦を彼女と共にできて良かった。


As Coffee Shimeno, this is our first attempt to hold a solo exhibition in the northern Shinano region where we live, in the lands of Shinano-machi and Kurohime. For about a year now, we've been visiting each other's spaces, engaging in dialogue, and searching for the right form.

Rather than forcing it into a fixed mold each time, we place the work within the vividly shifting seasons, within nature that changes moment by moment. A pleasant dissonance between the ○△□—shapes rarely found in nature—and the everyday (nature).

Her works, overflowing with color, neither blended with nature's hues nor became buried within them; they simply existed there.

The light, wind, rain of that day...
It felt as if a new expression layered over the late responding to them.

I'm glad I could take on this challenge alongside her.

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Coffee no Seki at Suzuki Shoten Beijing with Ren Nakane Coffee Shimeno