‘Cross a boudary’ InformationCross a boudary

This year’s Kinan Art Week extends into the city. Mobility is a continual crossing of territory. It is a series of entering and leaving someone else’s land, and most of the places you can walk through belong to an individual, a country, etc. But have you ever had the experience, for example, of standing in a place like a forest, where people do not usually set foot, and being confronted with the place, freed from its various attributes? Encountering expression and opening your senses may also free you from the fixed meaning of the place you are in. Kineimura will exhibit the artworks she has drawn from her research in Dōnaruiki Gorge as if she were repositioning them in the town. Hiroko Kubo, who uses everyday materials and sculptures based on research into prehistoric art, folk art and cultural anthropological theories, will also present her work after her research in Tanabe City.

Artist：KUBO Hiroko（Chiba）、KINEMURA Naoko（Tanabe）

【Venue】

Tokei Jinja

The World Heritage Site Toukei Shrine was founded in 419 and was part of the Kumano faith as a separate shrine to the Kumano Sanzan. The name of the shrine derives from the story of the battle of Dannoura in the Tale of the Heike, in which red and white chickens fought each other. Kumagusu’s wife, Matsue, is the daughter of the chief priest of the Toukei Shrine and is closely associated with Kumagusu. Kumagusu is said to have called the dense forest behind the shrine ‘Mt Kuragari’, where he collected plants and slime fungi.

Address: 1-1 Toyo, Tanabe, Wakayama 646-0029

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Tanabe City Outdoors

In the Tanabe area, with the cooperation of local residents, Kineimura’s artworks will be deployed in old houses and other locations that are currently not in use. As you make your way around Tanabe city centre, discover the works that have sprung up like spores from the gallery.

【Artist】

KUBO Hiroko 　
Born in Hiroshima, Japan in 1987, Kubo received her MFA from Texas Christian University in 2013. Based on her research of prehistoric art, ethnic art, and cultural anthropological theories,she uses everyday materials to create sculpture works. Recent major exhibitions include, solo show “Steel framed Goddess” (POLA MUSEUM ANNEX, Tokyo, Japan, 2024), “GO FOR KOGEI” (Kansui Park, Toyama, Japan, 2023), “Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual vol.10: There Is No Boundaries Here./?” (Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan, 2022) and “The Romantic Route 3 Art Festival” (Miaoli,Taiwan, 2023). Her large works are in the collections of KAMU KANAZAWA (Ishikawa, Japan), Chishima Foundation for Creative Osaka (Osaka,Japan) and

KINEMURA Naoko
Born in 1975 in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture. Graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting. Solide; invited to participate in the “Mojike Exhibition” in Ueno, Tokyo (and annually thereafter); VOLANT Exhibition in Ginza, Tokyo (and annually thereafter); onjaku-group Exhibition in Ginza, Tokyo (and annually thereafter); Solo Exhibition in Ginza, Tokyo; Solo Exhibition at Gallery Moku in Tanabe; selected as a postcard for the Solide City Tourism Association; Serials 2007 All Nippon Airways “Tsubasa no Okoku” in-flight magazine, Five Windows / Ginza, Gallery Seikou-dou, 2008 The Way I See Things Exhibition / Aichi, Japan: House of Nagakute culture, Ekaki-no Tabi – Air Journey Exhibition, Ginza, Tanabe, Mojike Exhibition Returns Planning and Exhibition / Tanabe City, 永青文庫 Serialized in Quarterly Magazine, Tokyo, Mejiro, 2009 Travel to France, Returned to Japan in 2010, exhibited in 2012 at Thinking of Spring vol.1 (and every year thereafter until 2016), organized Art Tanabe 2012, solo exhibition at Gallery Azuma, Ginza, Organized Art Tanabe 2013, organized Kinokuni Trainart 2014 (and thereafter until 2019), Thinking of Spring in 2019 exhibited at vol.9. http://trainart.jp/2021/