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Yukino Yamanaka - AMATEUR vol.10

2025.11.28 (Fri) – 2026.2.3 (Tue)

Grace AMATEURは、2025年11月28日(金)から2026年2月3日(火)まで、山中雪乃と南谷理加による二人展「Grace」を開催いたします。第10回となる本展では、1990年代後半生まれの新鋭ペインターとして国内外で注目を集める二人を紹介いたします。両者は一貫して「人物」を中心に描き続けながらも、現代の人間像をどのように捉えるかという点で異なる方向性を示しています。 山中は、身体の輪郭とその内側に潜む非人間的な気配を捉えるように、具象と抽象の境界を往還します。光を遮る影や画面に浮かぶ空白、液体のように流れる形象によって、「私」が何か別の存在へと変容していく過程を示唆します。また、セルフィー的なポーズや表情の引用は、SNS時代における自己像の揺らぎ──見せるための姿が内面を侵食していく現代的な不安──を鋭く可視化しています。 一方、南谷は絵画を「実験」と位置づけ、直感的な試行錯誤を通して特定の意味を伝える手段でも、視覚効果の追求のみでもない表現を探ります。様々な表情の人物やモチーフ、色面などの視覚イメージが重なり合い、どこか物語を感じさせる気配をまといながら、画面には軽い緊張が漂っています。 本展で二人の作品が並ぶことで、現代の人間像がもつ多層性が、異なる方向から立ち上がってきます。山中は身体と影のあいだに潜む「未完の存在」を追い、南谷は絵画という媒体が抱える「ふるまいの不確かさ」を手がかりに、像が立ち上がる瞬間の違和感を探ります。方法は異なりますが、両者はともに人物のあり方を単一の像に収めず、その揺らぎや多層性を表現の中心に据えています。 二つの視線が交錯することで、鑑賞者は「見ること」の不確かさと向き合うことになります。そこに立ち現れるのは、完成された肖像ではなく、常に変化しつづける私たち自身の姿です。本展は、現代における「人間のリアリティ」がどこに宿るのかを問いかける、静かな対話の場となります。 AMATEUR is pleased to present Grace, a two-person exhibition by Yukino Yamanaka and Rika Minamitani, from November 28, 2025 to February 3, 2026. For its tenth edition, AMATEUR introduces two emerging painters born in the late 1990s who have drawn attention both in Japan and abroad. While both have consistently centered their practice on the human figure, they take distinctly different directions in how they grasp the image of the contemporary person. Yamanaka moves back and forth across the boundary between figuration and abstraction, as if to capture the contours of the body and the non-human presence lurking within it. Shadows that block the light, voids floating across the canvas, and forms that flow like liquid suggest a process in which the "self" transforms into some other being. Her references to selfie-like poses and expressions sharply visualize the instability of self-image in the age of social media: the contemporary anxiety of an image made to be seen gradually eroding one's inner life. Minamitani, by contrast, positions painting as an "experiment." Through intuitive trial and error, she explores an expression that is neither a means of conveying a specific meaning nor merely a pursuit of visual effect. Figures with varied expressions, motifs, fields of color, and other visual images overlap. The canvas carries a faintly narrative presence, suffused with a subtle tension. Brought together in this exhibition, the two artists' works allow the multilayered nature of the contemporary human image to emerge from different directions. Yamanaka pursues an "unfinished being" that lies between body and shadow. Minamitani takes the "uncertainty of behavior" inherent in painting as a medium as her point of departure, probing the sense of unease at the moment an image comes into being. Though their methods differ, neither confines the human figure to a single image. Both place its fluctuation and multiplicity at the center of their work. As these two gazes intersect, viewers are led to confront the uncertainty of the act of seeing itself. What appears is not a finished portrait, but an image of ourselves in constant change. The exhibition offers a quiet space for dialogue that asks where the reality of being human resides today. Exhibition Title: Grace Artists: 山中雪乃 / Yukino Yamanaka, 南谷理加 / Rika Minamitani Dates / 会期: 2025.11.28 (FRI) – 2026.2.3 (TUE)(予定) Opening Reception: 2025.11.28 (FRI) 17:00–20:00 at: AMATEUR(H BEAUTY&YOUTH) 3-14-17 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo TEL: 03-6438-5230 Web:https://store.united-arrows.co.jp/brand/hby/
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