Kiss series part 1

contemporary fine art portrait surreal painting

KISS series part 1.

Musashino Art University

2015 . December 7-12

Oil painting department group exhibition

Lover close their eyes when kiss because, if they don’t , there would be too many visual distractions to notice and analyze - the sudden close-up of the loved one’s eyelashes and hair, the wallpaper, the clock face, the dust motes suspended in a shaft of sunlight. Lovers want to do serious touching, and not be disturbed. so they close their eyes as if asking two cherished relatives to leave the room. - Diana Ackerman

Sex can sometimes be unromantic and fundamental. What about kissing? We kiss our pillow as though it was our lover, we kiss our parents and friends to show our feelings, and most of us close our eyes while kissing, If we didn’t there would be too many things for us to see instead of focusing on the kiss. Kissing in a club, in a bar, in her room, while playing our favorite music, smelling her perfume, kissing can happen in any kind of situation. When we are drunk and kissing a stranger, is it the same as when we kiss a loved one? What is the difference?
What do we see before we close our eyes? Before our lips touch? My concept is the same as in my previous oil painting series, making invisible things such as “love” and “feelings” visible to the eye through paintings. This time after reading a book called “A natural history of the senses”, I came up with this idea about kissing called the “kiss series” project.

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　セックス時はロマンチックじゃない、機械的である。キスはどうだろうか？私たちはまくらを恋人としてキスをしたり、感情を伝わるために両親や友達とキスをする。そして私たちはキスをする前に自然に目を閉じる。そうしないと突然近づくまつげや眉毛などが視覚の邪魔をする。クラブで、バーで、彼女の部屋でキスをする。爽やかな音楽あるいは激しい音楽を流しながらキスをする。あるいは相手の香水の匂いやタバコの匂いを嗅ぎながらキスをする。感情が現れる。目を閉じる瞬間私たちは何を見たのか。

唇が触れ合う前に私たちは何を見たのか？私のコンセプトは前回の油絵作品のシリーズと同じだ。目に見えない”感情”や”感覚”を絵画で表現する。私は”感官の旅”という本を読んで今回のキスシリーズというプロジェクトのアイデアが浮かんだ。

series work

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