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Hideki Iinuma “6th Sense”

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Hideki Iinuma “6th Sense”

session:2014/6/6(Fri)- 22(Sun)12:00 - 20:00 *closed on mondays
opening reception: 6/6(Fri)18:00-20:00
talk:6/6(Fri)18:30-19:30 w/Shigeo Toya(sculptor) x Hideki Iinuma
venue:SNOW Contemporary (XYZ collective) 2-30-20 1F Tsurumaki Setagaya Tokyo


SNOW Contemporary is pleased to exhibit Hideki IINUMA solo show “6th Sense” from June 6th through the 22nd.

Hideki IINUMA was born in 1975, and after graduating Aichi Prefecture University of Fine-Arts graduate school, he entered Institut national d'histoire de l'art in France. Taking advantage of its European Region Action Scheme for the Mobility of University program (ERASMUS), he studied abroad also in Copenhagen (Denmark), Milan (Italy) and Karlsruhe (Germany), and built up his artist career in Europe. After returning back to Japan, recently his artworks have been exhibited not only in art spaces like galleries but also in various spaces such as local and international art fairs, outdoor monuments in Rokko Mountain, show-window installations in Tokyo and others. His works have been highly acclaimed for vividly overturning the general image of woodcarving and have been attracting a large number of viewers in each occasion.

The models of Hideki IINUMA’s works are always women of today. Somewhat alike landscapes or snap photos, the artworks capturing the momentary expressions and fashion of women living in urban cities never exchanges its eye-sights with its viewer thus maintains a certain distance. The artworks though do not only mirror the atmosphere of the current society, but also is a positive applause to the women living today, whereas Iinuma himself expresses as “women today uniquely combine strength and flexible ductility, which we cannot find in men.”

This exhibition entitled “6th Sense” will be consisted of around 20 new works in installation by the artist. As typified by the Buddhism sculptor Enk? from the Edo period, woodcarvings in Japan has been representing expressions approaching our sixth sense - by recreating a Buddhist god from a tree where god was believed to be. Such approach must have rooted down deep to our everyday lives, weaving in our veneration and praying towards an existence of supernatural. What then would woodcarving mean, or furthermore, what would contemporary art mean now where supernatural existence is less considered? Iinuma pursues in his solo exhibition what supernatural existence would mean now in the present time of ours through the women living in the society. It would be a great pleasure if Iinuma’s world of expression in his solo exhibition “6th Sense” would become an opportunity to invoke your unconsciousness.
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