I’ve been wanting to write the first post for a long time now, but I’ve been so busy that I never got around it… I remember setting dates for myself: January 1st (new year, new blog), January 31st (new birthday, new blog) and other significant dates like that, but in my life time is such a commodity that you must prioritize, and rambling on about myself is certainly not one of my priorities… So today, on this unassuming April the 30th, 2007, I am finally (almost) ready to let this baby fly free… It still needs work but I don’t want to procrastinate any longer. I’ve read somewhere that a new blog is born in the world every 2 seconds, so couldn’t help it but to be part of that statistics.

My website has been in need of a new version for a long time, one that would allow me to add content more easily and quicker, so here it is, finally, at last… I’ve been working on this website for months now, maybe even a year, and I want to acknowledge my friend Davide and my partner Genevieve for their tremendous help putting it together… Without them it would have taken me a lot longer!

In the tradition of “less is more”, I am gonna keep it short and sweet as I am sure that I’ll be posting here a lot in the future anyway and I wouldn’t wanna bore you just yet!

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Akino Kodoh film exhibition in Tokyo

For those of you in Tokyo, NY-based Japanese artist Akino’s first solo exhibit “KiyaKiya” is being held at Mizuma Art Gallery in Tokyo from Oct 11 to Nov 12.

Her beautiful drawings can be seen in a new animation movie with music by John Zorn and I actually worked on the music and the sound design for this film with Zorn.

The present exhibition includes Kondoh’s new animation work “KiyaKiya” as
well as drawings, oil paintings and sketches. The term “KiyaKiya” comes from
the old Japanese expression “mune ga kiyakiya suru.” Kondoh first
encountered it in Shibusawa Tatsuhiko’s “Introduction to the collection of
girls”in the chapter written about “childhood experiences.” This expression,
which describes “an enigmatic, nostalgic, disturbing feeling,” or an
impression of “deja-vu”, is at the origin of the “KiyaKiya” series.

In the animation, a girl is performing “kamishibai” (a traditional Japanese
picture-story show). When the artist noticed the time gap between the front
and the back of the illustration cards (the episode of the story the
audience is listening to is written on the back of the previous card; that
is to say there is a 1 page difference between the front and the back of the
“kamishibai” cards) she says she felt the possibility of a different
dimension hidden right behind the everyday life.

Three worlds simultaneously develop in the work. The same girl, who exists
in the three of them, lives all three different times. These tracks curve
slowly, eventually colliding and switching directions and she continuously
circle these orbits in an endless repetition.

In the present exhibition, you will experience a uneasy and nostalgic
feeling, as if you had long forgotten an important something and were about
to remember it. Some memory locked down in your heart might very well
resurface.

At the exhibition, her first catalog “KiyaKiya” will be presold at the
gallery.

Title:Akino Kondoh Sketch Collection “KiyaKiya”
Book design:Bunpei Yorifuji
Release Date:2011/10/25
ISBN:978-4-904292-16-7
Product Dimensions:deformed A5/paper back/single-side/4 color/rounded
corners
Page:402page
Price:2,300JPY(no tax included)

It’s the first catalog by KONDOH Akino
with 200 sketches for new animation “KiyaKiya”.
Book designed by very popular designer Bunpei Yorifuji.
recreated original drawings with 4 color on a sheer paper
is beautifully overlapped as one book.

Exhibition information
KONDOH Akino “KiyaKiya”
October 11 (tue) - November 12 (sat), 2011 (closed on Sun., Mon. & Holidays)
Opening Reception: October 11 (tue): 18:00-20:00

Mizuma Art Gallery
2F Kagura Bldg., 3-13 Ichigayatamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0843 JAPAN
tel: +81.3.3268.2500/fax: +81.3.3268.8844
http://mizuma-art.co.jp

http://mizuma-art.co.jp/gallery_info/index_e.html

KiyaKiya
2010-2011
single channel animation video
6 min. 39 sec.
Courtesy the artist and Mizuma Art Gallery

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