GALLERY KOYANAGI
EXHIBITION
ARISA KUMAGAI: …APPARENTLY GOD IS FORGIVING
Gallery Koyanagi is pleased to announce “…apparently God is forgiving,” a solo exhibition by Arisa Kumagai. In her practice, the artist reflects on her upbringing in a red-light district in Osaka, where her family ran a luxury clothing store that catered to the mafia and women working in the brothels. Addressing dichotomies of wealth/poverty, life/death, and love/hate, her paintings allude to this context while also referencing the iconography of Catholicism, from the images printed on the store’s Versace shirts to Velázquez’s Christ Crucified, which inspired her to become a painter.
“…apparently God is forgiving” is Kumagai’s third at Gallery Koyanagi. As part of her research process, Kumagai attended mass at churches in Japan and France in order to gain a deeper understanding of the relations between beauty and power and violence and prayer. The exhibition features new paintings and a book of poems composed by the artist.
VENUE
GALLERY KOYANAGI
- C6
- Ginza
Koyanagi Bldg 9F
1-7-5 Ginza, Chuo-ku
Tel. 81-(0)3-3561-1896
Gallery Koyanagi opened in Ginza in 1995 and relaunched with a new gallery space designed by Hiroshi Sugimoto in 2016. Gallery Koyanagi represents Japanese and international contemporary artists, including Michaël Borremans, Sophie Calle, Marlene Dumas, Mark Manders, Christian Marclay, Thomas Ruff, Yoshihiro Suda, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Tabaimo.
