NANAE MITOBE
All works in the collection (8)
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Title: How wonderful life is while you’re in the world
Year: 2022
Medium: oil, electronic keyboard on canvas
Dimensions: 180 x 90 cm (70 7/8 x 35 3/8 in.) -
Title: My Guitar
Year: 2022
Medium: oil on guitar, chair
Dimensions: guitar: 115 x 40 cm (45 1/4 x 15 3/4 in.) -
Title: A Night at Birdland
Year: 2021
Medium: oil, pigment, cymbal, brush on canvas
Dimensions: 180 x 180 cm (70 7/8 x 70 7/8 in.) -
Title: TIME - I'm very proud of this country. TIME - We are in the fastest economic recovery in HISTORY!
Year: 2022
Medium: acrylic on paper
Dimensions: set of 2, 75 x 55 cm (19 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.) each -
Title: remember love
Year: 2022
Medium: bed, linen, oil paint, turntable, record, guitar amplifier, timer
Dimensions: 210 x 126 x 102 cm (82 5/8 x 49 5/8 x 40 1/8 in.) -
Title: Just one kiss, kiss will do?
Year: 2022
Medium: oil on linen, wood panel
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm (39 3/8 x 39 3/8 in.) -
Title: message 2
Year: 2022
Medium: oil on linen, wood panel
Dimensions: 150 x 150 cm (59 x 59 in.) -
Title: message 6
Year: 2022
Medium: oil on linen, mounted on wood panel
Dimensions: 182 x 91 cm (71 5/8 x 35 7/8 in.)
Mitobe was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo. She graduated from Nagoya Zokei University in 2011 and completed her master’s degree in Oil Painting of Department of Painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2024. Mitobe mainly focuses on portraits in her works. However, deviating from common perception of painting, the artist creates with an unusual thickness of paint. Although Mitobe’s solo exhibition at Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery is titled “I am not an Object”, such “Object” does not necessarily mean only something that is not a person (in terms of existence or human rights), but may also be an answer to what the artist has been asked of many times in the past - “Is this a painting or a sculpture?” Conversely, Mitobe strongly stated that “not an Object” is a painting. If we turn our eyes to the context of the painting, whether using public figures as motifs, delving into social issues, or the relationship with music or instruments, such violent use of thick and heavy paint becomes inevitable. The thickness and weight are created by grabbing the paint with her hands and applying directly onto the canvas. The respect, criticism, and love towards the subject being depicted, or the message that is being conveyed to viewers, have become so intense that they can no longer be contained on a flat surface, and perhaps even the use of a brush is too troublesome. Mitobe participated in “project N 85 MITOBE Nanae｜I am not an Object” (Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in 2022), “VOCA Exhibition 2021” (The Ueno Royal Museum), “APMoA, ARCH vol.18 DEPTH ‒ Dynamite Pigment -” (2016 Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art) etc. She also has appeared on PR campaigns for CASIO “G-SHOCK 2100 Series” and so on, actively expanding her fields of expertise.
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