Aki KONDO Online Exhibition "Flowers in the Heart"

Sat, 25 AprilSat, 30 May, 2020
ShugoArts Online

We humans have experienced various histories since our birth. Many conflicts and famines have changed our cultures and medical science. As science has developed and changed our daily lives blazingly fast, our common sense is also at stake now.

 

However, just as there is no night without a dawn, the morning always arrives, the season changes and the spring comes around with new greens and blooming flowers. Some things do not change even when people all over the world are struggling to live their own lives. It seems like they are telling us how to go through a severe winter.

 

We have art and music that enrich our hearts, and there are flowers in our hearts. Thanks to them, we have found peace of mind and become compassionate to one another. Those may not be able to save people’s lives as the power of science obviously does. But we go insane if we are scared of an invisible menace which is currently attacking us, with only two options available to us, to live or die.

 

Making my own paintings, I believe it is very important for us to nourish our hearts in order to live today and create our future.
Now, prosper your creativity and bloom the flowers in your heart.

 

I wish everyone in the world good health and I hope we can hug each other with smiles on our faces again soon.

April, 2020 Aki Kondo

Aki Kondo Online Show "Flowers in the Heart"

For more details of artworks, please see Online Catalogue.

About Exhibition

We are pleased to announce the opening of ShugoArts’ first online exhibition.

 

Having experienced the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake,, Aki Kondo sublimated her sorrow into a movie, HIKARI (2015), featuring a combination of over 14,000 paintings of hers and live action scenes, in order to present a hope out of the tragedy. Over the past five years, Kondo has overcome so many different events both as an artist and individual. Believing in her painting more than ever, now she is facing the canvas again and pouring her gaze full of love into the motifs. Although we are currently facing an unprecedented situation, we hope that you can find your favorite paintings to be hung in your heart through our online show.

 

We are going to stream the movie HIKARI in the course of the following dates.

 

2 May – 6 May, 2020
Special online screening: Aki Kondo HIKARI

Curated by Minako Ishii

Information

Aki KONDO Online Exhibition "Flowers in the Heart"
Dates

2020.4.25 Sat – 5.30 Sat

Aki KONDO | ShugoArts
Aki KONDO

Born in 1987 in Hokkaido and currently residing in Yamagata, Japan. Aki Kondo continues to depict hope and compassion for all forms of life through bold colors and dynamic brushstrokes. For Kondo, who believes that “to paint is to live,” the act of creation is both a process of envisioning the world she wishes to see and a means of self-recognition through painting. Her artistic expression extends beyond canvases and panels, freely expanding into three-dimensional objects, walls, ceilings, and entire spaces. Additionally, Kondo has demonstrated her talent in various artistic endeavors, including writing, directing, and producing the short film HIKARI, which seamlessly blends approximately 14,000 oil-painted animation frames with live-action footage.

 

Selected exhibitions: Aki Kondo: What I Saw, When I Tore Myself Open, Art Tower Mito, Ibaraki, 2025; I Wanted to See You, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2023; Aichi Triennale 2022, Aichi, 2022; Stars, Sparkling, Yamagata Museum of Art, Yamagata, 2021; The Happiness that Exists Here, ShugoArts/ Phillips Tokyo/ Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, 2021; Takamatsu Art Museum Collection + Body and Movement, Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, 2020; Flowers in the Heart, ShugoArts Online Show, Tokyo, 2020; Today Waiting for That Day and Tomorrow, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2018; Paintings Here And Now, Fuchu Art Museum, Tokyo, 2018; HIKARI, Daiwa Foundation Japan House, London, 2016; HIKARI, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2015; THE ECOLOGY OF AKI KONDO, JIKKA, Tokyo, 2013; PHANTOMS OF ASIA: Contemporary Awakens the Past, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, 2012. VOCA 2022 Honorable Mention Award, 2022.