Akira Kamo “Wind Blowing Across the Boundary Line”
I visited Akira Kamo’s solo exhibition “Wind Blowing Across the Boundary Line.” The venue is LOKO GALLERY, in Daikanyama.
The adjoining café “Shiritsu Coffee Elementary School” is also hosting an exhibition of original CD jacket artwork for Nao Kodama.
The keywords for this exhibition are “boundary line” and “wind.”
These are works Akira Kamo painted after entering the disaster area of the 3.11 Great East Japan Earthquake in Fukushima itself.
Akira Kamo, Drawing for Wind Blowing Across the Boundary Line, colored pencil on paper, 2019
Fences (boundary lines) installed to mark off-limits areas within the difficult-to-return zone, figures, and a pale yellow something that could also be seen as sunlight filtering through the trees are depicted.
Akira Kamo, Wind Blowing Across the Boundary Line 1, 2019
The reason for the fence’s existence is the nuclear accident, but the ones who created the conditions for the accident are us, humans.
It was people who decided where the boundary line lies, and it was people who were forced to evacuate — the work seems to question the “now” and “the future” of us humans, all parties to what has happened.
Akira Kamo, Self-Portrait, 2019
A work that lets you feel the wind moving between this side and the other side.
Akira Kamo, Wind Blowing Across the Boundary Line 2, 2019
The impasto of Akira Kamo’s oil paint feels fleshy and emotional.
Brushstrokes that flutter like the wind are layered on top of one another, giving the work its depth.
Akira Kamo, Wind Blowing Across the Boundary Line 1, detailInstallation view — gallery second floorAkira Kamo, Nosari Grave Visit 1, 2019Akira Kamo, Nosari Grave Visit 2, 2019Akira Kamo, Nosari Grave Visit 6, 2019
Original CD Jacket Artwork Exhibition
At the adjoining café “Shiritsu Coffee Elementary School,” an exhibition of original CD jacket artwork by Akira Kamo was also being held.
These are works that translated the world of the music into the CD jackets and inner pages for the artist Nao Kodama.The soft, gentle colors used throughout all the works left a strong impression.
児玉奈央さんというアーティストのCDジャケットや中面に描かれた楽曲の世界観を作品にしたものです。
どの作品にも使われている、柔らかくて優しい色が印象的でした。
