November 21, 2013 - February 1, 2014.
http://www.micheko.com
NEW LOVE PLAN
Please join us for the opening on Thursday, 21st November 2013 from 7pm till 9pm.
The artist's works are "chaotic collages: amalgamations of found material painstakingly stitched into evocative cross-cultural patchworks." Exclusively for her first solo exhibition in Germany, Ai Kijima has dedicated her new series of works to Japanese manga and anime motifs and processed these to global messengers of popular culture.
about the artist
Born in Tokyo and now a New York resident, Ai Kijima graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2005. She collects fabrics with motifs of popular cartoon, comic, TV-series and movie characters, then fuses them into colorful cartoonscapes that are too sexy and subtly violent to be within our individual emotional comfort zones. Kijima claims to express a universal viewpoint with her quilted textile collages. She does not explicitly show her Japaneseness and would rather remain anonymous.
