In the fantastical images Chiho Aoshima has created—whether in her early digitally created work or her most recent experimentation with hand-painted ceramics—buildings turn into fairy-like creatures; trees walk and talk; nymphs wander the graveyard; and even in apocalyptic images, such as of tsunamis, one sees a new world thriving after the end of the world. Her work kindles our imagination for an otherworld that is invisible to us yet is all around us.
OPENING OF A SHOWROOM IN MATIGNON DISTRICT, 2BIS AVENUE MATIGNON
PARIS
APRIL, 2020
The exhibition presents thirteen new paintings the artist has created since March 2020 at his Miami studio. A sense of poetic tension prevails in the works, which Bas painted at various scales that range from larger-than-life to intimate, reflecting the broad palette of sentiments experienced by his paintings’ protagonists. A signature in the artist’s unabashedly gilded universe, a suite of young adult men populate borderline surreal mise-en-scènes, with angst left over from teenage years and fragility in the face of their impending manhood.
FIAC 2020 IN SITU (EDITION CANCELLED AT GRAND PALAIS DURING COVID CRISIS)
WANTED ! L'art est à vous au Grand Palais.
“The rules are simple: If you find an artwork in the Grand Palais, you will leave with the work. The project includes contributions by Chiho Aoshima, Iván Argote, Daniel Arsham, Genesis Belanger, Johan Creten, Elmgreen & Dragset, Bernard Frize, Laurent Grasso, Thilo Heinzmann, Gregor Hildebrandt, JR, Bharti Kher, Klara Kristalova, Takashi Murakami, Jean-Michel Othoniel, GaHee Park, Paola Pivi, Emily Mae Smith, Aya Takano, and Xavier Veilhan. It is open to all and free of charge. The project has been imagined as a joyful quest to celebrate the discovery of art in a historic venue prior to its imminent closure for renovation.”
