Momoko Akaike Solo Exhibition in showcase at hiltopia shopping arcade
June. 1- June.30,2022
@ hiltopia shopping arcade
赤池 ももこ 作品展
6月1日(水)~6月30日(木)
ヒルトピアショッピングアーケード内 ホテル直通エレベーター脇 ショウケースにて展示中
輪切りにした木の断面へ彫刻する、木口木版(こぐちもくはん)技法で制作をしています。
入口も出口もない内面世界の温室に産まれた少女たちの密やかな感情を、白と黒の世界で描きます。
赤池ももこ
I use the koguchimokuhan (woodblock print) technique of engraving on a section of wood that has been sliced into rings.
In a world of black and white, I depict the secret emotions of girls born in a greenhouse of an inner world with no entrance or exit.
Akaike Momoko
カイロウドウケツという不思議な海の生物がいます。海綿状のその体の中には、なぜか二匹のエビが幼少の頃から住んでおり、成長したエビたちは一生その中から出られないという奇怪な生態を持ちます。(通常はそのエビは雌雄なので、よく結婚式のお祝いに「偕老同穴の契り」という言葉が使われることがありますね。)
赤池さんの作品に登場する少女たちは、少女期特有のガラス細工のような繊細さと排他性を感じさせます。その艶髪のうねりと絡み合う植物の蔓や葉が濃密な空気感を漂わせ、出口の無い息詰まりとそれがゆえの恍惚感に、うっとりと見入ってしまいます。彼女たちは姉妹なのか親友なのか、それとも愛で互いを縛りあう同士なのか、その関係性は偕老同穴のような永久性なのか、それとも若さゆえの「今が永遠に感じる」その感覚なのか・・・。
輪切りした木の断面をビュランで彫っていく木口木版の細い線、そして黒と紙色だけの表現が画面に純粋さと優艶さを共存させています。少女たちもさることながら、花や葉の描写の見事さよ。
赤池ももこさんの作品は、自分の部屋に飾り、または手元に置いて密やかに眺めていたい、そんな作品です。(岡村)
There is a mysterious sea creature called the Venus' Flower Basket. Its sponge-like body is somehow inhabited by two shrimps from childhood, and the grown-up shrimps have the bizarre ecology of not being able to leave it for the rest of their lives. (Usually those shrimp are male and female, hence the term "kairou douku no Tigiri," which is often used in wedding celebrations.)
The girls in Akaike's works evoke the delicacy and exclusivity of glasswork characteristic of girlhood. The undulation of their glossy hair and the intertwining vines and leaves of the plants create a dense atmosphere, and we are enraptured by the feeling of stifling without exit and the ecstasy that comes with it. Are they sisters or best friends, or are they bound to each other by love, or is their relationship permanent like that of Kairou-douku, or is it the feeling of "now feels like forever" due to their youth?
The fine lines of the woodblock engraved with a burin on a section of wood cut in a circle, and the use of only black and paper colors give the painting a sense of purity and grace. The girls, as well as the flowers and leaves, are beautifully depicted.
Momoko Akaike's work is the kind of work that one would like to display in one's room or keep at hand to look at in secret.
赤池 ももこ Momoko Akaike
[作家略歴]
<受賞歴>
2012年 第79回 日本版画協会版画展 賞候補
第89回 春陽展入選
第57回 CWAJ現代版画展入選
第32回 カダケス国際小版画展入選(スペイン) 賞候補
2017年 第84回 日本版画協会版画展入選
KENZAN2017 C-DEPOT賞受賞
第6回 東京国際ミニプリント・トリエンナーレ入選
第24回 鹿沼市立川上澄生美術館 木版画大賞 入選
2019年 Mini Print Kazanlak 2019入選(ブルガリア)
Mini Print International of Cadaques2019入選(スペイン)
National original print exhibition2019入選(イギリス)
Print International 2019 入選(イギリス)
アワガミ国際ミニプリント 賞候補
萱アートコンペ2019 入選
2020年 第87回 日本版画協会展 入選(準会員推挙)
第19回 南島原市セミナリヨ現代版画展 長崎新聞社賞
第二回TKO国際ミニプリント2020 入選
2022年 第一回極小版画コンテスト 文房堂賞
<所 属>
C-DEPOT
日本版画協会 準会員
<収 蔵>
多摩美術大学美術館(2018年)
Momoko Akaike
Born in Yamanashi Prefecture
2010 Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Fine Arts and Design, Oil Painting, Printmaking
<Explanation of the work>
I use the Wood engraving technique, which involves engraving on a section of wood that has been cut into rings.
In a world of black and white, she depicts the secret emotions of girls born in a greenhouse of the inner world with no entrance or exit.
<Awards>
2012 Nominated for the 79th Japan Print Association Print Exhibition
Selected for the 89th Shunyo Exhibition
Selected for the 57th CWAJ Modern Print Exhibition
Selected for the 32nd Cadaques International Small Print Exhibition (Spain)
Selected for the 84th Japan Print Association Print Exhibition, 2017
Awarded C-DEPOT Prize, KENZAN2017
Selected for the 6th Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial
Selected for the 24th Kawakami Sumio Museum of Art, Kanuma, Japan Woodblock Print Grand Prize
2019 Mini Print Kazanlak 2019 Selected, Bulgaria
Mini Print International of Cadaques 2019 Selected, Spain
National original print exhibition 2019 Selected (UK)
Print International 2019 Honorable Mention (United Kingdom)
Awagami International Mini Print Prize Nominated
Kayan art competition 2019 selected (Japan)
2020 The 87th Exhibition of the Japan Print Association, Selected (Associate Member Nominated)
19th Minamishimabara City Seminariyo Contemporary Print Exhibition Nagasaki Newspaper Award
Selected, The 2nd TKO International Mini-print 2020
2022 Bumpodo Prize, The 1st Micro Print Contest, Japan
〇Affiliation
C-DEPOT
Associate member of Japan Print Association
〇Collection
Tama Art University Museum (2018)
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