Ai☆Madonna: THE TAME DOG and THE HARE
July 7th – 29th July, 2023
GR gallery
255 Bowery
New York 10002
GR gallery is happy to reveal ‘THE TAME DOG and THE HARE’, the very first solo discussion of Tokyo-based artist, Ai☆Madonna, in the U.S. The exhibit includes the artist most recent series of pictures that stem from her repeating reveries, associated to the almost overall absence of youth and teenage years memories. These art work are the outcome of a methodical research study and a fanciful visualization, of how her girlhood would have been.
The reveal creates 15 shaped art work of different sizes, performed with the artist extreme signature strategy; Ai☆Madonna will finish a big live painting, as part of an efficiency, throughout the opening occasion.
The works provided are the latest development of the series ‘Can’t Recall Her Face’ begun in 2010, where Ai☆Madonna painted front pictures of different teenage women deals with in the heavenly effort to bear in mind and illustrate her own. The unique concentrate on female characters and the frequent existence of the ideogram ‘愛’ (Ai) in the photos highlight the research study of her lost youth.
In search of comprehending how girlhood exists, Ai☆Madonna recalls to her lead characters theoretical past by highlighting extensive minutes of connection and intimacy in the effort of assisting each other bonding in developing a perfect images.
The brilliant Manga affects in the artist design are in some way reversed by the action of eliminating the body of the character, an action thought about taboo in this world, and leaving all the connections simply to the expression of the face and the reflections in the eyes. After years of examining this concern the artist seemed like the square canvas limits couldn’t limit her ‘girls’ any longer so she chose to start carrying out on something brand-new and better for her expression by forming the surface areas around the characters.
Born in Tokyo in 1984, Ai Kato finished from Makoto Aida’s “Barabara Art Class” at Bigakko Art School in 2014, and has actually been carrying out live paintings as “Ai☆Madonna” considering that 2007. Her activity as an artist has actually covered over a vast array of fields, not just displaying her art work, however likewise working together with artists, developing outfits for Japanese idols, and releasing her own manga called “Hakua”.
The basis for Kato’s work is her youth memories. As a girl, she was ambiguously drawn in to bodies of other girls by affection or by sensuality – memories of which stay brilliant for her. Kato began to paint “beautiful girls,” almost a goddess-like presence to her sometimes, at first to cheer herself up throughout her teenage years that had lots of complex and tension, as she was required to unexpectedly end up being an adult from a kid. Even after she began to end up being active as an artist, she continued to absorb herself, depicting “beautiful girl” as the ultimate expression of her feelings. Her work has actually been thoroughly showed all around Asia in personal galleries and public areas.
©2023 Ai☆Madonna
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