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Minami Kobayashi: Paintings 201624

Minami Kobayashi (b.1989) is a Japanese artist based in London. Covering a significant period of development in her practice as a painter, this publication coincides with her second major solo exhibition, The Song of Jujubes, at Frestonian Gallery, London. Kobayashis paintings depict familiar yet surreal scenes, created from an amalgamation of memories, places and ordinary people. In her dreamlike ambiguous narratives, nature, animals and humans are given equal status; her realms are symbiotic societies with multiple creatures. She captures transitory and fluctuating moments, depicting her protagonists in states of flux, vulnerability and openness. Rendered in a postImpressionist palette, her compositions are a potent mix of playfulness and deeper themes of human and natural life. Bringing together eleven new canvases, The Song of Jujubes takes its title from a song that the artist used to sing as a teenager in her hometown of Nagoya, Japan. It begins with a girl eating one jujube fruit every night, wondering what she will do when they are all gone. Imbued with a sense of nostalgia and loss, the works consider what home means and the strong relationship between people and place. This publication documents Kobayashis paintings chronologically, from her early works of 2016 to 2024. In a foreword, the Directors of Frestonian Gallery, Matt Incledon and Rollo Campbell introduce the inner world of the artist and the themes of The Song of Jujubes. In an interview with Lisa Wainwright, Kobayashi discusses her time studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, her unique painting technique and the symbolism in her scenes. She also expands upon her artistic influences, including Ukiyoe woodblock prints, the tenets of Buddhism, Tarot and the Nabi painters, such as Félix Vallotton, Édouard Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard. In her essay Temperature of a Memory, Laura Allsop analyses Kobayashis recent paintings in relation to memory and place, particularly the artists hometown of Nagoya. Edited by Incledon and designed by Joe Gilmore, the book is copublished by Frestonian Gallery and Anomie Publishing, London. Minami Kobayashi (b.1989, Nagoya, Japan) lives and works in London. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and a BA in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2016). Kobayashi makes figurative paintings that combine intimacy and mystery through their depictions of ordinary people, animals and places that seem vaguely surreal and ever so slightly offkilter. Recent solo or duo exhibitions include I Spell a Word to Free You (with Adrianne Rubinstein) at Et Al Gallery, San Francisco (2024), Place and Presence (with Patrick Procktor) at Frestonian Gallery (2023) and Somewhere not here at Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago (2022). See more
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  • Dimensions: 240 x 260mm
  • Publication Date: 24 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: Anomie Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910221662

About Laura AllsopLisa WainwrightMinami Kobayashi

Minami Kobayashi (b.1989 Nagoya Japan) is an artist based in London. She holds an MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2018) and a BA in Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts (2016). Matt Incledon is CoDirector of Frestonian Gallery London Lisa Wainwright is a professor in the Department of Art History Theory and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Dean of Faculty and Vice President of Academic Affairs Emerita. Laura Allsop is a writer and editor based in London.

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