Filters
2010
A little girl, flashlight in her hand, is walking along, searching for something in the dark. Around her are symbols that are scattered around the city: pro baseball teams, auto companies, marks found in childhood memories. The girl wandering in the city, responding to those images, can be understood to be the artist herself. The style of soaking watercolors into paper is one of the major continuous lines in Mori Chihiro’s extremely varied work. This technique, which owes much to the study of Nihonga, is, according to the artist, appropriated for expressing “the moist feeling of the city” and the “human tactile sense” of living there. Mori Chihiro, who was born in 1978, has garnered considerable interest from early in her career for remixing groups of the images that inundate urban life-the symbols, movies, manga, advertisements-and the objects used in everyday life, or disposed of, in paintings and three-dimensional works that transform the environment that surrounds her from her unique perspective. These works, which express a fascination with the “Showa image” from the era in which she grew up, both stir up collective memories and go on to speak of the autochthonous drives, seen in folk tales and references to Buddhas and deities, latent deep within them.
1978-
| Genre | Water_colors,drawings |
|---|---|
| Material/technique | Transparent watercolor painting, pencil on watercolor paper, mounted on wooden panel |
| Dimensions | 120×178cm |
| Acquisition date | 2011 |
| Accession number | 2011-00-0002-000 |
SONE Yutaka
2010
NAKAZONO Koji
2010
HASEGAWA Shigeru
2010
SONE Yutaka
2010
MATSUMOTO Yoko
2010
SEKINE Naoko
2010
SAKAGISHI Yoshiou
2010
TOMII Motohiro
2010
Walter NIEDERMAYR
2010
SEJIMA Kazuyo + NISHIZAWA Ryue / SANAA
2010
