Friday, November 13 12pm to 6pm
Ouchi Gallery
170 Tillary Street, Suite 105, Brooklyn, NY 11201
The series TOKYO RAINBOW expresses the beauty of Japanese style with women as a motif, as well as a temporal change of four seasons using the colors seen in a rainbow. Each woman associates the image of foremost courtesans “Oiran” in the Edo period in Japan. The butterflies in the picture mean the temporal change of that a butterfly emerges from a pupa, expressing a fleeting, ephemeral beauty of life and its vitality. The idea that everything always transits and changes also relates to Daisuke Kaneko’s stance to the activity of creation.
TOKYO RAINBOW is exhibited as a series of seven pictures. The number of rainbow colors varies in the world. However, Kaneko was so impressed by the story that Newton stuck to the sacred number of seven when the scientist found the principle of rainbows and tried to link the number of colors to a musical scale. Therefore, Kaneko creates this series with the theme of the number of seven which is recognized as the general number of colors in rainbows in Japan. As music that has infinite possibility lies in a seven-note scale, he believes there is an infinite color world can be expressed with seven colors in a rainbow and try to demonstrate my artistic style there.
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