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I was held captive to Naoko Nojima's vivid colors and inexplicable image when I saw her solo exhibition few years ago. I induced her to hold the solo exhibition at DOKA Contemporary Arts to solve the sorcery of her image. Although Nojima's work looks gaudy because red or pink were used, it was filled with dignified colors and obscure shape seems to resist a decipherment.
Nojima wrote "My work is like my own mental image as personal picture, not personal novel. Gathering the unconsciousness and realizing into obscure shape." "In my self, there is certainly something which cannot assimilate if I did not make into work." on her blog.
The title of her works is like a poem with smart and refined mystery as well. It is asking "Can you understand my feeling?", but at same time it looks like saying despairingly "You never understand my feeling." Even as the personal novel, Nojima's work is the spokesperson of atmosphere and nothingness of present day which can sympathize with contemporary people.
After 3.11, the influence appeared to her work either. By the shape and number, some one may interpret something from 4-set work "Outside of Outside of the Box is Inside" For Nojima, a building or a plant is just a thing which lay on her mind at that time. Your soul must be shaken by a natural hymn when you see her work as the testimony of her pure everyday life. Suguru Igarashi / Curator of Sompo Japan Museum of Art |
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Naoko Nojima |
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Born in Hokkaido. |
2002 |
Guraduated from Oil Painting Course of Tama University of Arts. Awarded Ichiro Fukuzawa Prize by graduation work. |
after 2002 |
Held solo exhibitions in Ginza or Bakuro-cho every year. |
2005 |
"Funabashi Contemporary Arts Interchange Exhibition '05" (Funabashi Citizen Gallery) |
2008 |
"Exhibition for the Soup" (Bakuro-cho ART+EAT) and many others. |
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"Outside of Outside of the Box is Inside" Nojima Naoko Exhibition |
Subway : Ginza-Line,Hanzomon-Line,Chiyoda-Line 10 minutes on foot from B1 exit of Omotesando Sta. |
Naoko Nojima |
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November 24(Sat) - December 1(Sat), 2012 |
1:00pm - 7:00pm Closed on Sunday |
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DOKA Contemporary Arts |
7-1-12, Minami Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo. 107-0062 TEL : 03-3407-3477 |
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