木戸涼子
　Ryoko Kido
“Time for a snack Vol.2”

2022/8/27(sat)〜10/2（sun） 12:00〜18:00

Closed Monday,Tuesday

今回の木戸涼子の個展『Time for a snack Vol.2』は、前回2018年のKido Pressでの個展『# おやつのじかん/# time for a snack』の第二弾というべき作品群である。徹底的に「甘党」であり、そして食べることの好きな木戸が、アイスクリームやかき氷やカップケーキを描いた前回に続き、プリン・アラモードやゼリーや、果ては大きな飯の山にその山頂に鎮座する梅干を描くことは、「身近な日常に目を向けた主題を再び踏襲」などと平たく説明してしまうのではおよそ十分ではない、深い読みが必要だ。

“tenkomori”

美大を出て以来たゆまず絵を描き続けてきた彼女の年月の多くは、ほんの近年まで、「母親業」とのバランスをとりながらの作家生活であった。その結果…といっては表層的にすぎるかもしれぬが、過去のふたつの個展『春へのまなざし』(2009)や『雨ときどきわらって』(2012)は、「母」という言葉と呼応するような「柔らかさ」「包容力」「暖かみ」といったものがキャンバスから滲み出る作品群であった。
それが、前回、2018年の『# おやつのじかん』では大いに変化した。「おやつ」という居心地の良い題名にもかかわらず、画面に描かれた「甘い食べ物」たちの放つのは、強い自己主張であった。テンペラという古典的な技法によって重厚さを纏った「甘いもの」たちは、見る者に「どうだ」と拳をつきつけるような強靭な存在感を訴えてきた。子供との付き合いの日々の中から温かく柔らかい世界を描いてきた木戸が、ようやく自分自身のエゴに100%向き合える立ち位置を築いた故の、拳であろうか。そうやって木戸の変遷を捉えた時に、今回ふたたびテンペラを用いて発表する同じ主題の個展は、彼女の自我のさらなる探究だとわかる。浮遊するアポロチョコ、空を切るカット・リンゴ、銀の包み紙から忍び出るキャラメル群。木戸が細部まで綿密に描く食べ物たちは、本気で見る者の隙をついて襲いかかってくる。飯の山は世界を凌駕するようだ。『Time for a Snack』というリラックスを誘う題名に騙されぬよう、腹をくくって木戸の自我と向き合うべき展示である。

塩谷 陽子（Japan Society, Artistic Director）

【作家コメント】
あいかわらず甘いものが好きだ。机の上にも鞄の中にも入っている。
見慣れた愛すべき形や楽しみを描いている。
現実の写しだけではなく一枚の絵画にできればと思う。

ギャラリーキドプレスでは、4年ぶりとなる木戸 涼子さんの『Time for a snack Vol.2』展を開催いたします。 古典技法のテンペラを用い描き出す作品を是非ご高覧ください。

〈テンペラ画について〉
テンペラ画は卵の乳化作用を利用して描く、油彩画以前からある古典的な西洋絵画技法です。
描画の時点では水溶性の絵具のため細かい描写が可能で、乾燥も早く、色彩も鮮やかです。
また透明な油彩と合わせて描くことで表現の幅も広がります。

“momentary　2022”

＜作家略歴＞
1958年福岡生まれ。1981年武蔵野美術大学造形学部油絵科卒業（優秀賞）
1994〜東京在住。

＜展示＞
2022 『Gates Art Competition「food」』 ホルベイン賞
2019 『ART BUSAN2019』GALLERY IRRITUM TOKYO （釜山）
2018 『#おやつのじかん』　 Gallery KIDO Press　　（東京）
2014 『ART NAGOYA 2014』
2013 『Winter group show』　 Gallery KIDO Press
2012 『雨ときどき笑って』 Gallery KIDO Press
2010 『寓意と奇想』五人展 ギャラリー●フェイス トゥ フェイス、 『テイスティングアート』（大阪阪急デパート）
2009-2010　 個展　『春へのまなざし』小淵沢アートビレッジ　八ヶ岳ロッヂ・アトリエ
2009 「Christmas Exhibition」　Gallery KIDO Press、個展　なびす画廊
2008　個展　ギャラリー●フェイス トゥ フェイス（東京）
2006　個展　なびす画廊
2004　小品展　小野画廊
2003　個展　小野画廊企画展

2002　上野の森美術館大賞展 1984-1985 グループ展　Gアートギャラリー　ギャラリー檜、日本版画協会
1981 グループ展　横山画廊
1980 大学版画展　（買い上げ賞）
　　　 1979〜1982　神奈川女流画家協会展（1981議長賞　1982知事賞）

Exhibition by Ryoko Kido: Time for a Snack, Vol. 2
Period: August 27 (Sat.) - October 2 (Sun.), 2022
Gallery hours: 12:00 - 18:00
Exhibition days: Wednesday - Sunday (closed on Monday and Tuesday)
Venue: Gallery KIDO Press (3331 Arts Chiyoda #204)
As suggested by its title, Time for a Snack, Vol. 2, this latest solo exhibition of works by Ryoko Kido may be considered a sequel to #time for a snack, the previous solo exhibition she held at Gallery KIDO Press in 2018. As a dedicated devotee of sweets who also loves to eat, Kido follows her paintings of ice cream, shaved ice, and cupcakes in the last exhibition with depictions of pudding a la mode, jelly, and even a big mound of rice topped by a pickled plum in this one. The exhibition surely calls for an in-depth interpretation that goes beyond her plain characterization of it as “again treating motifs with a focus on familiar things and my everyday life.”

Ryoko Kido has steadily continued to produce paintings ever since her graduation from a university of the arts. Until just a few years ago, she was compelled to balance her artistic activities with her duties as a mother for much of the time. As a result (which may be an excessively superficial way of putting it), the paintings in the two solo exhibitions she held in 2009 (The Gaze of Spring) and 2012 (Rain After Smile) seemed to ooze softness, magnanimity, and warmth that mesh with associations of the word “mother.”

The picture changed greatly with #time for a snack, her last solo exhibition held in 2018. In spite of the casual, pleasing connotations of the word “snack,” the sweet delights portrayed on the canvas radiated a staunch self-assertion. Instilled with a massiveness by the classical technique of tempera, the confections projected a strong presence, as if they were triumphantly thrusting a fist in the air before the faces of the viewers and demanding their recognition. Kido painted a warm and gentle world proceeding from her days of interaction with her children, and perhaps the figurative fist belongs to her, now that her child-raising days are over and she has finally gotten herself in a position allowing her to face her own ego 100 percent. When her transition is viewed in this light, one can see that this exhibition of works again made in tempera and on the same theme is a further exploration of her own self. Hovering pieces of Apollo Chocolate, slices of apple cutting through the air, chunks of caramel squeezing out of aluminum-foil wrappers… The treats rendered by Kido in meticulous detail positively wallop viewers who are unprepared for them. Her mountain of rice seems to eclipse this world. Those who come to the exhibition are advised not to be fooled by the title Time for a Snack, which is ordinarily an invitation to a relaxing break, and to get themselves ready for a confrontation with Kido’s ego.

- Yoko Shiotani (Artistic Director, Japan Society)

〈Comment by the artist〉

I still love sweets. I keep some on my desk and carry some in my handbag.
I paint the familiar shapes that are dear to my heart and the pleasure I derive from eating sweets.
I try to produce paintings that are not mere depictions of the actual subjects.
Gallery KIDO Press is pleased to be holding Time for a Snack, Vol. 2, Ryoko Kido’s first solo exhibition here in four years.
Please don’t miss this opportunity to see paintings she made applying the classic tempera technique.
About tempera paintings

Tempera is a classical technique of Western-style painting that preceded oil painting and uses the emulsifying action of egg yolk.
The technique enables fine depictions in the process of painting because the pigments are water-soluble. The pigments also dry quickly and yield brilliant coloring.
Use of tempera in combination with transparent oil paints widens the range of expression.

< Exhibitions >
2022 『Gates Art Competition「food」』
2019 『ART BUSAN2019』GALLERY IRRITUM TOKYO （Busan）
2018 『#time for a snack』　 Gallery KIDO Press　　（Tokyo）
2014 "ART NAGOYA 2014"
2013 "Winter Group Show," Gallery KIDO Press
2012 "Rain After Smile," Gallery KIDO Press
2010 "Allegory and Fantasy," a five-artist exhibition at Gallery Face-to-Face, Tokyo, and "Tasting Art," Osaka Hankyu Department Store
2009 - 10 "The Gaze of Spring," a solo exhibition, Kobuchizawa Art Village, Yatsugatake Lodge Atelier, Yamanashi
2009 "Christmas Exhibition," Gallery KIDO Press, and a solo exhibition at Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
2008 Solo exhibition, Gallery Face to Face, Tokyo
2006 Solo exhibition, Nabis Gallery, Tokyo
2004 Exhibition of small works, Gallery Ono, Tokyo
2003 Special solo exhibition, Gallery Ono, Tokyo
2002 Ueno Royal Museum Grand Prize Exhibition
1984 - 85 Group exhibitions at G Art Gallery, Gallery Hinoki, and the Japan Print Association
1981 Group exhibition, Yokoyama Gallery
1980 National University Print Exhibition (Purchase Prize)
1979 - 82 Kanagawa Women Artists Association Exhibition (selection for the Chairperson's Award in 1981 and Governor's Award in 1982)