vol.150
Mayumi Inukai
Reflect
2023.11.4(Sat) - 11.19(Sun)
Open : 13:00 - 19:00
Closed : Tue, Wed
'Reflection'.
In the act of looking, we sometimes catch a glimpse of our own perspective, apart from the fact that it is reflected in our eyes.
The reflection and the self born into it. The contrast is sometimes so cruel that it is almost unbearable.
Mayumi Inukai
When I confront Mayumi Inukai's work, I feel a quiet, tingling, sublime feeling of sorrow. The fragility and beauty of her paintings, with their delicate overlapping lines, ambiguous outlines and faintly luminous images. A woman's face is repeatedly drawn, but Inukai says she is not drawing a person. They are images received and reflected by the artist's own deep sensitivity, which eventually transcend the physical screen and field of vision, spreading and melting together like landscapes across the entire space, and drifting into this world. While being connected to the artist's own and the viewer's individual experiences and feelings, they quietly reach out to the universal questions that human beings hold and dissolve into the air like a mist. There is physical life and death from which there is no escape, or the life and death of the senses, which are born and disappear in the course of our days. It seems to me that this is both the uncertainty and the truth of existence that we can never ignore. Inukai's works sometimes seem violently cruel, but they are as beautiful as the corpses lying in front of us. They quietly illuminate this world like light born from quietly looking at oneself who cannot resist and continuing to accept it.
Gallery NAO MASAKI Nao Masaki
Mayumi Inukai
1986 Born and lives in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
2009 Graduated from Nagoya University of Arts, Western painting course
2007 "Things seen from the boundary" Nagoya University of Arts Art & Design Centre
2008 ART OSAKA 2008 Dojima Hotel, VOICE GALLERY / Osaka, Japan
2008 "Oratory Sentiment" YEBISU ART LABO / Aichi
2009 D ART FESTIVAL 2009 Ditech Sakae / Nagoya
2009 《Personal Exhibition》 "Mirror Image Exhibition" YEBISU ART LABO / Nagoya
2010 ART KYOTO 2010 Hotel Monterey STANDING PINE / Kyoto
2010 Ultra 003 Aoyama Spiral Garden, STANDING PINE / Tokyo
2010 "Mayumi Inukai - Where to go, where to return" STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2011 "Sympathy" STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2011 YOUNG ART TAIPEI Sunworld Dynasty STANDING PINE / Taiwan
2011 "Solo Exhibition" "Permissible Space" STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2011 Nami Yokoyama & Mayumi Inukai Drawing Exhibition STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2012 TOKYO FRONT LINE 2012 3331Arts Chiyoda STANDING PINE / Tokyo
2012 "view Door to Tomorrow" Art Labo Aichi, Nagoya University of Arts / Aichi, Japan
2013 Permanent exhibition Tomoaki Shitara, Mayumi Inukai STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2013 Solo Exhibition "Personality" STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2013 Solo Exhibition "Absolute Domain" STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2014 Spring Painting Art Show, Riyuki Arai, Yui Suzuki, Mayumi Inukai, STANDING PINE / Nagoya, Japan
2014 Nagopal Culture Festival Parco Gallery Nagoya PARCO STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2014 Solo exhibition Utsuwa, STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2015 OB&OG Exhibition: Norio Ono, Mai Shimamura, Koshi Kawachi, Mayumi Inukai Nagoya University of Arts A&D Centre / Aichi
2015 Collector Fuyuhiko Yamamoto's Choice Young Artists Exhibition INTRO4 Art Complex Centre / Tokyo
2015 ART TAIPEI 2015 Taipei World Trade Center STANDING PINE / Taiwan
2016 THE NEXT Electric Culture Hall STANDING PINE / Aichi
2017 "Poison" Fan de Nagoya 2017 Kazumi Kawasaki Planning Citizen Gallery Yada / Aichi
2018 "NINE", solo exhibition, STANDING PINE / Nagoya
2018 "Zinbutsu" Masayoshi Suzuki gallery / Aichi
2020 "The Violence of Everyday Life" STANDING PINE / Nagoya, Japan
2021 Solo Exhibition "KAI" Mizuiro gallerya STANDING PINE / Taiwan
