Kaoru Usukubo“the circle open”
2022.8.27(sat) ー 10.16(sun)“An experiment based on an accidental law 世界の範囲” 2022

oil on panel

photo by Nobutada Omote

We will hold the solo exhibition of Kaoru Usukubo “the circles open “ here at rin art association.
Usukubo creates her work through a 3-step process of taking photographs, recreating the image while drawing with CG, andﬁnally painting with oil. The intention is “an experiment based on the accidental law” and she wishes to see a world thatcannot be controlled by consciousness alone. The works, which looks at the world from multiple perspectives, evokes theinevitable way the world should be to viewers.
In this exhibition, there will be 9 works including “An experiment on an accidental law: world range” , which depicts things,
that could look random but were “possible to exist” in her atelier at that moment, such as a girl living in Berlin (Umeko), abarn owl living in Osaka (Kiyo), cardboard, mass-produced parts, and building materials used in the atelier. Also, a series ofworks which refers to the form of Hans Arpʼ s works will be presented.

“In between a moment”
Our creative act in our ateliers originates in something like a fragment of reality that our eyes capture, and eventuallyʻvisualizesʼ intentional things and, events resulting from the conspiracy between accidental chance and action.
In our attempt to grasp the ʻsekaiʼ (world), the moment when our senses encounter the reality is quite ephemeral. During thetime we are engaged at the canvas, unintended misreading may occur which cannot occur intentionally. This painting space
where intension and unintended translation coexist reminds us once again that there might be another unexpected ʻsekaiʼ .
Fateful encounters of gaining knowledge, dreaming, humans overcoming the menace of nature, and the nature recovering
humans again. Paintings have
ʻframes.ʼ And the fact that our perception is limited also tells us that we are inhabitants inside the ʻframe.ʼ Our quest is
nothing but to keep on look at this ʻsekaiʼ inside this tiny frame, using the clues of the things that containʻambivalence.ʼ
- Kaoru Usukubo
Kaoru Usukubo
PHD in Oil Painting, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2010.
BFA in painting at Tokyo Zokei University, MFA in painting at Tokyo University of Arts.
Major solo exhibitions include “Wandering Season” at TARO NASU (2007, Tokyo), “UP logist” in Wohnmaschine (2008, Berlin),“NEXT 2008” in Chicago (2008, Chicago) , “crystal moments” in LOOCK (2011, Berlin), “An experiment based on an accidentallaw” in taimatz (2018, Tokyo) , “SF Seamless Fantasy Kaiga Keikaku and language of ﬂowers from 43800 days” in MA2 gallery(2021, Tokyo), and others. Major group exhibitions include “VOCA 2010” in Ueno no mori Museum of Art(2010, Tokyo) , “Yokohama Triennale 2011 OUR MAGIC HOUR” in Yokohama Museum of Art (2011, Yokohama) , “MINIMAL, POSTMINIMAL The contemporary Japanese Art from 1970s” in Utsunomiya Museum of Art (2013, Utsunomiya) ,Open 11：00 - 19：00

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