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Mitsunori Kimura 木村充伯
We Mammals, Detail, 2016 Oil on panel designed to grow fur (wood, veneer) 215.6x304.6x4.6cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
View of the exhibition “Navigation & Trajectory”, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan, 2015 Photo: YAMAMOTO Tadasu Photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University
Ancestor, Detail, 2016 Oil on panel designed to grow fur (wood, veneer) 68.5x84.5x4.6cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
Bear, Human, and Ape..., 2015 Oil on panel designed to grow fur (wood, veneer), 90x127.8x4.8cm Photo: YAMAMOTO Tadasu Photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University
Stray into Someone's House Like a Cat, 2015 Oil on panel designed to grow fur (wood, veneer) 38x29x1.8cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
Ancestor, 2015 Oil on panel designed to grow fur (wood, veneer) 72x50.9x4.8cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
View of the exhibition “Navigation & Trajectory”, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan, 2015 Photo: YAMAMOTO Tadasu Photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University
The Ancester is Sleeping (Two Monkeys), 2015 Oil paints on board 18x182x182cm Photo: YAMAMOTO Tadasu, Photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University
The Cat is Sleeping, 2013 Oil paints on board 9.5x45x45cm Photo: Jรถrg Obergfell
The Dog is Sleeping (Jindo dog), 2013 Oil paints on board 18x100x75cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
Offsprings are Sleeping, 2015 Oil paints on board 3x30x30cm (11 pieces) Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
The Birds in the Cage, 2015 Oil paints, bamboo, concrete 155x354x14cm Photo: YAMAMOTO Tadasu. Photo courtesy: Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori Public University　
Cat, 2015 Oil paints on canvas, timber 33x45x14cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
Korean traditional mask, Mot Mal Li Nun Shin Jjang (Snack), Joy (Silla Clay Figure), Dogshit, Bone (Lotteria's Fire Wing), Vegetarian feed, Small dried fish, Head of Pensive Bodhisattva, Dak-dari (Snack), Cat (Silla Clay Figure), Cat statue, A woman mourning the death (Silla Clay Figure) 2013 Oil paints Life Size Photo: Ru Yi Tan 　
The Bird's Blind Spot, 2014 Color on camphor wood, screw, Installation size (18 birds) View of the exhibition, “Above the Horizon”, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 2014 Photo: Ru Yi Tan
Left: The Bird's Blind Spot, Detail, 2014 Color on camphor wood, screw Installation size (18 birds) Photo: Ru Yi Tan The Birds are watching, Detail, 2014 Color on camphor wood, screw, timber 17x57x15cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
Wonderful Man, 2015 Color on camphor wood 36x10x11.5 cm, 36x10x12cm, 36x10x16.5cm, 37x10x15cm, 40x11x18 cm, 40x11x15.5cm, 40x10x17cm, 40x10x15 cm, 40x11x15cm Photo: Ru Yi Tan　
Above the Horizon (The sea otter 1), 2014, Color on camphor wood, 53x150x47cm Above the Horizon (The sea otter 2), 2014, Color on camphor wood, 52x148x48cm View of the exhibition, “Above the horizon”, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 2014 Photo: RuYi Tan
Ape and Koala, 2013 Color on camphor wood 46x35x29cm (Ape), 45x33x28.5cm (koala) Photo: RuYi Tan
Penguin and Sea Gull, 2015, Color on camphor wood, 54x27x21cm (Penguin), 38x50x22cm (Sea Gull) Penguin and Sea Gull, 2015, Oil on panel designed to grow fur (Wood, Beneer), 86x86x4.7cm View of the exhibition, “Wonderful Man”, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea, 2015 Photo: RuYi Tan
木村充伯 1983 年静岡県に生まれる。名古屋造形芸術大学で彫刻を学ぶ。 主に木彫りの彫刻、油絵具の彫刻、ティッシュによる版画作品、ドローイング などを制作している。最近は、木村が「毛が生えるパネル」と呼ぶ、意図 的に毛羽立つように設計されたパネルの表面をチェーンソーで削って哺乳類 の毛を作っている。
Mitsunori Kimura (1983 - ) was born in Shizuoka, Japan. Studied at Nagoya Zokei University of Art & Design. He has created figurative sculpture, ranging from a human carved from camphor wood to a mosquito modeled in oil paints. In addition his works in a wide range of media such as printmaking using tissue paper, drawings. He has recently created mammal’s hair formed with panels, which are called “hair-growing panels” by him and designed to make fine splits of wood grain stand out when the surface is shaved. He has demonstrated in works focusing on something connecting life and death such as ancestors and offsprings, human and other mammals. His work has been exhibited at 'IL DIO DELLE PICCOLE COSE', c u rate d by Pi e r Lu i g i Ta z zi, Ca s a M a s ac c i o i n It a l y, 'M i n i m i contrasti', curated by Claudio Cosma, SENSUS - Luoghi per l’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Japan, Seoul Museum of Art in South Korea, and at KENJI TAKI GALLERY, Tok yo, Nagoya, Japan. Galler y Kiche, Seoul, Spain and beyond.
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Publication date: April 2016 ©2016 MITSUNORI KIMURA ©Tan & Kimura Press http://tkpress.blogspot.com Printed in Japan
木村 充伯 木村充伯 Mitsunori Kimura mitsunorikimura@gmail.com http://mitsunorikimura.blogspot.com