ARTIST INTERVIEW
九州出身の4名の作家たちは、いずれもキャラクターをモチーフにした作品を発表しています。現実の世界にふと顔を出すキャラクターを通して示すのは、生きるリアリティ。参加作家のひとり、弓指貴弘にキャラクターに込める意味や制作について話を聞いた。
ABOUT ARTIST
Born in Kagoshima Prefecture in 1979. Currently living in Miyazaki Prefecture. Influenced by manga, anime, and subculture, he projects and visualizes his own subjective thoughts onto grey worlds and characters.
                  Panda artist Chinpan
 Born in 1979
 Graduated from the Social Studies Department of the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University in 2002.
 A panda artist who mainly draws panda characters.
 What I want to portray is actually a somewhat foolish, lovable, and greedy human being. However, when I portray a human being, it somehow becomes very raw.
 So, he wondered what kind of "animal is like an indulgence card" that he could make do anything without getting in trouble, and came up with the idea of using a "panda" as his motif, which is black and white and has the ultimate "cuteness" as its weapon.
 He boldly depicts various pandas and the events surrounding them in rich colors and unique compositions, and in recent years has been comically depicting pandas as characters that "strongly attract people and make the viewer smile in a mysterious way," as possessing "good fortune" and "good luck." By combining them with gods and Buddhas, he proposes new auspicious paintings, and his theme is to capture "luck," an invisible and very vague concept that is inseparable from human desires and karma.
                  Born in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1993
 2018: Master's degree from Kyushu Sangyo University, Graduate School of Art and Design
 In 2018, the base of operations was moved to Tokyo.
                  Born in 1992, currently living in Kagoshima. Graduated from the Faculty of Education, Kagoshima University, majoring in fine arts.
 He began creating and working on illustrations in earnest around 2016, and became a freelancer in 2021.
 Currently, he is mainly active in exhibiting his works at exhibitions and events.
 He creates daily works using both analog and digital media, with the theme of "everyday life and pop," which expresses the joy, sadness, and happiness that lie hidden in ordinary everyday life.
 He also works on visuals for events, merchandise illustrations, and signboard illustrations within Kagoshima Prefecture.
                  ABOUT EXHIBITION
              
            
          
        Exhibition
                    グループ展「Daily Fables」【福岡】
Venue
                        YUGEN Gallery FUKUOKA
Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Chuo Ward, Daimyo 2-1-4 Stage 1 Nishidori 4F
Dates
Opening Hours
                        11:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Closes at 5:00 PM on the final day only
Closed Days
                        Every Tuesday
Date of presence
Admission Fee
                        free
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