木村 了子/KIMURA Ryoko

木村 了子/KIMURA Ryoko

鰐虎図屏風ー俺たちアジアの虎
Crocodile and Tiger “We are Asian Tigers”

六曲一双屏風 紙本着彩(和紙に和絵の具)銀箔
Six-panel folding screen: Japanese pigment, silver leaf on washi paper

H242 x W439cm
2021

Photo: Koji SEKIMOTO

1997年東京芸術大学院修士課程壁画専攻修了
現代東洋の美しい男性(イケメン)をモチーフとした屏風絵や掛軸などの絵画作品を発表。伝統的な日本画の技法や絵画のスタイルを継承しつつ、異性であり愛の対象である「男性」を時にはエロティックに、時にはコミカルに様々なテーマで描き出す。王子様や人魚、ターザンやカウボーイなどファンタジックな男性像が織り成す作品郡は、過去と現在、和と洋が絶妙に交差する独特の画風を形成。

Born in Kyoto, Ryoko Kimura completed Master’s program in Mural Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 1997. Kimura is a painter with wide-ranging knowledge and interest in Japan’s pictorial heritage, including Chinese-style landscapes, Zen Buddhist ink portraiture, Ukiyo-e paintings and woodblock prints. At the same time, her works are unmistakably contemporary due to Kimura’s subject matter, the beautiful males. Her work recalls the tradition of Edo-period Ukiyo-e, with its obsessive focus on female beauty, which she substitutes with images of beautiful young males placed in fantastic settings. Kimura also inserts humor into her work, rendering her male models in a cartoonish manga-style, placing them in exaggerated poses, allowing her paintings to fluctuate between the erotic and the comic. Her works, including fantastical male figures such as prince, mermaid, tarzan, and cowboy, form a unique painting style in which the past and present, Japanese and Western intersect exquisitely.

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