Yumi Karasumaru
Facing Histories - NipPop Special
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In the Takeshita street, 2007, 40 × 50 cm, pencil, Indian ink and acrylic on canvas
Exhibition
5 June - 19 June 2015, from Monday to Friday ➤Spazio & via Guerrazzi 1, Bologna
Opening : Friday 5 June, 2015 h. 19.30
Performance
"Facing Histories in Hiroshima"
Friday 5 June, 2015 h. 19.00 ➤AtelierSì via San Vitale 69, Bologna, Italy
Artist talk
Friday 5th of June, 2015 h.15.00 ➤at la Sala Biagi ,in via Santo Stefano 119, Bologna
Yumi Karasumaru will present paintings in Facing Histories - NipPop Special, which is one of the event of NipPop: Parole e Forme da Tokyo a Bologna 2015. NipPop is organized by School of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Interpreting and Translation of Bologna University.
Yumi will presents some different series of paintings ( Teenager, Landscape, Atomic, Macaone and the other ) represent landscapes of contemporary Japan and its fascinating culture. Also she will do the performance "Facing Histories in Hiroshima, in occasion of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and also the end of War. She will do it in the first time in Italy.
Yumi was born in Osaka, Japan and works and lives in Bologna, Italy and in Kawanishi, Japan. Since the beginning of the Nineties Yumi's research has developed pictorial images and performances in parallel, in an intense cultural investigation of the relationship between the present and the past of her country of origin, Japan.
NipPop -Il Giappone contemporaneo a Bologna
Web page: http://www.nippop.it/5-6-7-giugno/
Spazio &
via Guerrazzi 1, 40125 Bologna (Italia)
Web page: http://www.spazioet.it/
Spazio & is a art gallery which 5 studios, architecture, photographs, graphic design and video, are sharing together.
The view of the personal exhibition "Facing Histories-NipPop Special" at Spazio & in Bologna.
The Friends, 2011, 25 × 20 cm, pencil, Indian ink and acrylic on canvas
Tokyo Landscape n.12, 2010, 35 × 25cm, pencil, Indian ink and acrylic on canvas
Atomic series n.6, 1995, 80 × 60cm, acrylic on canvas
Facing histories in Hiroshima/ Scene from the performance