Mutsumi Aoki
Mutsumi Aoki (born December 16, 1959 in Saitama ) is a Japanese artist . As a visual artist, she creates artful and filigree sculptures out of paper.
life and work
Career
Mutsumi Aoki was born in Saitama , Japan in 1959 . The artist grew up in Matsudo and Tokyo . There she also studied from 1978 to 1981 at the Ochanomizu Art Institute. She then attended the Ochanomizu Joshi Daigaku School of Fine Arts in Tokyo from 1981 to 1984 . She studied painting with Professor Sato with the minor subjects: sculpture , lithography , fresco and tempera .
The artist Mutsumi Aoki works with organic materials: paper , moss , algae , sand . Her works of art seem to be fashion designs from afar. They are three-dimensional sculptures. The paper clothes are empty shells. But the objects look alive, as if a person had just been there. With a rococo dress, the artist refers to a special Japanese fashion, the Lolita fashion, based on Rococo and Wilhelminian style costumes - and that's the name of the work of art: Rococo Lolita .
Aoki's sculptures and works have been shown in numerous exhibitions in galleries and museums in Germany, including the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe in 2009 with a special exhibition.
Mutsumi Aoki is married to the German writer Wulf Noll . The visual artist lives and works in Düsseldorf .
Home art
The artist says of herself: “My country of birth is Japan , the land of the sun goddess Amaterasu , my place of residence is Germany , my home is art . Art mediates between cultures and brings the inside out and the outside in. ”And:“ I became an artist because I can't express my thoughts so well in words ”. Concentrated, she draws a circle of sand around jagged paper shoes with dizzying stiletto heels. The shoes in the sand represent the life of the artist. “I am a traveler through life. Life has neither a beginning nor an end, like the circle. The shoes stand for hiking, ”explains Mutsumi Aoki. She calls this work Time Traveler , so time travelers . The artwork can also be seen as a symbol of Japanese and European culture. The meditative calm of a Japanese rock garden lies above the carefully shaped lines of the circle. But the shoes stand for Europe: always in motion.
reception
““ The Badisches Landesmuseum has been presenting the special exhibition “Metamorphoses. Artists between Japan and Germany ”. Graceful clothes covers made of paper, moths painted with colorful patterns and abstract sculptures made of porcelain and ceramics - what connects these works of art, which are so different at first glance? The works of the three contemporary artists Mutsumi Aoki, Akihiro Higuchi and Aisaku Suzuki, which the BLM is presenting in its new exhibition in the Museum bei Markt, are shaped by Japanese aesthetics and yet play with European forms of expression. ""
““ The works of the three Japanese-born artists Mutsumi Aoki, Akihiro Higuchi and Aisaku Suzuki are original, timeless and refreshingly different. Despite all the differences in the materials and forms of expression in their works, the three artists have one thing in common: they skillfully play with the theme of transformation. They combine western forms of expression with traditional Japanese influences "."
"" Your works are flooded with Japanese culture ... they lead to meditation and reflection. "
““ The exhibition “Body Images” in the Städtische Galerie Offenburg is a great inspiration - Mutsumi Aoki (born 1959) from Japan, who lives in Düsseldorf, also expresses herself in shells. Her sculptural garments made of paper are dramatically enhanced. Folded, wet and warped, sculptures are created that are closely related to historical models. Women of the turn of the century who appear so laced and yet extremely moved, appear incredibly charming, elegant and individual, who seem to be full of humor and life. Surrealistic echoes and baroque quotes from form always evoke new images and testify to the rich inspiration of this artist "."
"" Cocoons made of resin and beeswax: After a phase of informal painting, Aoki ventured into the third dimension with paper objects. She finds the ideas for her sculptures on the go, in shop windows or in theater books "."
"The costumes, which are perfectly handcrafted from paper and then subtly artistically processed with acrylic paint, natural resin and beeswax and hang on the walls like remnants of the age of mankind, emanate a mysterious aura."
““ Mutsumi Aoki uses a special technique - paper creation - to create fragile sculptures that resemble life-size clothes covers. The melancholy reference to a lost content is strongly shaped by the Japanese feeling for beauty and its transience. But new forms grow out of the empty shells, which point to the eternal cycle of life "."
Awards
- 1984: Sponsorship award from the Ochanomizu Academy of Fine Arts in Tokyo
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 1985 + 86: Galerie 21, Tokyo
- 1987: Surugadai Gallery, Tokyo
- 1988: Tsukuba University Gallery, Tsukuba
- 1989: German Cultural Center, Tokyo
- 1990: Creative House Aku-Aku, Tsukuba
- 1998: CO 10 gallery, Ulrike Behrends, Düsseldorf
- 1999 + 2001 + 2004: Galerie Beethovenstraße, Düsseldorf
Group exhibitions
- 1989: Kreisel (OAG Club), Tokyo
- 1991: Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
- 1998: Global Art, CulturCitadelle II, CO 10 Galerie, Ulrike Behrends u. Galerie Blau, Düsseldorf
- 2000: House of World Cultures, Berlin
- 2001: Zehntscheuer cultural association, Rottenburg / Neckar
- 2001 + 02: Society of Friends of Art, Düsseldorf a. Berlin
- 2009: Body images - sculptures by Mutsumi Aoki, Anja Luithle, Ekkehart Panek, Tina Stolt, from June 5 to August 16, 2009, Städtische Galerie Offenburg
- 2012: Exhibitions in museums, Aoki - Higuchi - Suzuki: Metamorphoses, from March 3, 2012 to June 24, 2012, Museum at the Market, Gallery, Karlsruhe
- 2014: 30 years of art in the Zehntscheuer, Rottenburg / Neckar
- 2014: Opulence structure: Mutsumi Aoki - Sabine Boehl - Sala Lieber, Reuschenberg Castle, Neuss
Publications
- 2005: Mutsumi Aoki: paper sculptures. Illustrated by, Mutsumi Aoki. Publisher, XIM Virgines Ed. Libri, 2005, 32 pages, ISBN 978-3-934268-41-8 ( limited preview in Google Book Search)
- 1999: Drippings a. Drawings in: Wulf Noll, Freundliche Grüße aus dem Yenseits. Poems from Japan, Sassafras Verlag, Krefeld, 1999 ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- 1995: Buna o meguru, Tokyo: Kabushikikaisha Hakusuisha, 1995
literature
- Mutsumi Aoki in: "50 works by female masters. A museum guide for Baden-Württemberg" by Barbara König, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 2012, pages 36–37
- Mutsumi Aoki in: "Dialogue. Contemporary Art in a Historical Context", Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe, 2006, pages 48–49
- Mutsumi Aoki in: Yearbook of the State Art Collections in Baden-Württemberg , Volume 43, Ministry of Culture, 2006, page 153
- Mutsumi Aoki in: Kulturführer Düsseldorf , by Rolf Hosfeld, 2005, page 126
- Mutsumi Aoki in: Journal for Cultural Exchange , Volume 50, Institute for Foreign Relations, 2000, page 2
- Mutsumi Aoki in: The Japanese press , Nihon Shinbun Kyōkai, 1995, p. 144
Web links
- Literature by and about Mutsumi Aoki in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mutsumi Aoki at Worldcat
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mutsumi Aoki in: Kulturamt Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf
- ↑ Mutsumi Aoki - Heimat Kunst (PDF; 42 kB)
- ↑ Mutsumi Aoki in: My City
- ^ Mutsumi Aoki in the Badisches Landesmuseum
- ↑ Mutsumi Aoki in Eunique ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Mutsumi Aoki in Edition virgines
- ^ Mutsumi Aoki in Badische Zeitung
- ↑ Mutsumi Aoki in Kulturpur
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aoki, Mutsumi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 16, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saitama , Japan |