2021.9.25 ~ 2021.11.28「間·蝶」:内田江美 个展

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内田 江美 Emi UCHIDA

2021.9.25 – 11.28

Shanghai

The Autumn Dream of a Butterfly

                          ——Emi UCHIDA new works exhibition

What is the intention of the high-level attention paid to the works and exhibitions of female artists recently? This summer in Tokyo, a year-long delayed Olympics held without audience. Before I leave Tokyo, the must-see exhibitions are scheduled at 10 a.m., because I afraid that some exhibitions are not seen now and will never be seen again, also worry about losing the sense in different states.

There was an exhibition very impressed, MORI ART MUSEUM’s 「Another Energe」, the exhibition brings together the works of 16 female artists around the world. Also, they are aged between 72 and 106, this viewpoint is extremely interesting. The exhibition of 16 female artists from 14 countries in the world attracted great attention. From Yoko ONO In the 1970s and 1980s to Yayoi KUSAMA in 1990s, till today’s Chiharu SHIOTA, their explosive influence on contemporary art is exhilarating. The Japanese art handstick magazine was made a special issue of the theme of female artists’ art history in time.

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About the artist

内田江美

内田 江美|Emi UCHIDA

Born in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan

1990  Graduated from Women’s Art College

1990-2003  Worked as a fashion designer and then started his journey as an artist.

2002  Studied copper engraving under the tutelage of contemporary artist Akiyama Ryoichi

From the age of eight to 2004, she has been studying painting with Japanese painter Ando Mineko

2005  Studied under the tutelage of the inheritor of Bizen ware, Abe Anjin

Emi Uchida’s abstract works are infinitely extending as a whole. But on closer inspection, they revealed a dense interplay of charcoal paintinged lines suggestive of a network.The impression conveyed by the painted surfaces was of space exploding into infinity. Here were the neural networks of the human body connecting with the unbounded expanses of the universe and transporting with them the viewer. The familiar segued spectacularly into the ineffable.

At the same time, Emi Uchida is also engaged in printmaking. She draws nourishment from the “Shunga” of the Edo period, using lines and collages to deal with taboos and explicitness, concealment and revealing, and endow tradition with new interpretation and vitality.

Her works have been exhibited in Japan, China, Taiwan (China), the United States, Europe, Turkey, Singapore, and other places. Some important solo exhibitions were held in 2016 at the Taipei 101 Tower Art Museum (Taiwan, China), in 2018 at the Miura Art Museum (Ehime, Japan), in 2018 at the Kaohsiung City Government Cultural Bureau/Taiwan Cultural Center (Taiwan, China), and in 2020 at the Setouchi Art Museum (Okayama, Japan) and other institutions.

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