KURAMOTO Hidehiko exhibition

-Chandelier-
Was your vague memory really your memory?

This re-creation is based on 10 paintings of chandeliers whose focus gradually blurs.

If you compare them side by side, you will notice subtle changes, but if you look at them one by one in different places, you will not notice the changes, and by the tenth one, the image will have become a fuzzy color surface. Isn't that how human memory works?

The memories of other senses may be more vivid than visual memories, or they may be memories that are intricately related to each other. Your own memories may have unknowingly changed into something else. It may have been replaced by a more beautiful and enjoyable event. That would be true. It would be unbearable for the psyche to continue to remember the death of a relative or a sad event as it is, as real as it is.

But we must not forget that there are people in the world who remain there and continue to live. We should always keep in our memory that there are people who were robbed of their homes and families, lived with clinging feelings, and are still praying for them.

Kuramoto Hidehiko

Hidehiko Kuramoto

Completed graduate studies at the University of Tsukuba, School of Fine Arts. Since student days, unique methods in the realm of printmaking have garnered attention through participation in events such as the Wakayama Printmaking Biennale, Seibu Printmaking Grand Prize Exhibition, Krakow International Printmaking Triennial, and Budapest International Exhibition. Subsequently, exhibited continuously in the "Mainichi Contemporary Art Exhibition" and participated in various contests like the "Yasui Award Exhibition," "VOCA," "ACRYL AWARD," "FACE," and "ART OLYMPIA." Also contributed to curated exhibitions such as "CROSSPOINT" (Kagawa Prefectural Museum), "Takamatsu City Museum of Art Collection + Light Spilling with Tadao Kimura" (Takamatsu City Museum of Art), "Kunisame and Corpses" (Seto Inland Sea Historical Folk Museum), and "Setouchi Atmosphere: The Perspective of Art" (Kagawa Prefectural Museum). Additionally, involved in multiple collaborations with artists like Semimaru (Sankai Juku), Kazutoki Umezu (sax), Tetsu Iwashita (dance), and Fumi Takahashi (Shibusashirazu Orchestra).
Currently holding a solo exhibition "Babel" at (A Single Art Museum) from September 2 to September 30.