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14/3/2007

Jardin Secret

Yukiko Kawase, Paris

Group Show

curated by Hajimu Too

Paintings/Drawings, Music and Video/Installation of Chikara Matsumoto, Daisuke Nagaoka, Shinko Okuhara, Organ-O-Rounge, Kazuhito Sahara, Hideyuki Saito, Poh Wang

The gallery Yukiko Kawase is a small white cube located in a quaint back street of the south side of Montparnasse. The area has kept the whole atmosphere of the first half of 20th century-Paris and it is a favorite of the French movie directors to take the scene of that period. Used to be a psychic cabinet, then a record shop, its store front sees through the large and luminous show window.

One day, a group of the 10 artists from Japan went through, have had a talk about each other’s secret and then left. The gallery now looks like a garden where the fallen leaves scattered around on the floor.

Visitors are invited to take a peek inside of the gallery through the decorated show window (by Saito), then push the door and discover the trace of the secret chat. In the center of the gallery, there’s a rotating piano stool surrounded by mosquito net. The art work is supposed to be seen through the net, the only way to discover the hidden secret, the inner world of artists’ mind.

One can see on the floor the small animal sculptures (by Too), also the video monitors. There will be “emakimono machine”, a sort of digital rolled animation picture book (by Matsumoto). “eleven headed Buddha” speaker distributes the mellow music of Organ-O-Rounge. There will be the narrative drawings and paintings of Nagaoka, Okuhara and Sahara on the wall. Poh Wang, a mysterious artist unit whose identity has never been revealed, is also showing its photography.

In an unexpected space and time, this is the journey into a picture book full of poetry and mystery, where we "drop in".

Opening: March 15 (Thursday) 6 to 9pm

Gallery Yukiko Kawase
8, rue Adolphe Focillon - Paris (Métro No4: Alésia)

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