Mariko Noda “Hope”

Tezukayama Gallery

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Tezukayama Gallery presents “Hope”, a solo exhibition by Mariko Noda from 23. Nov – 21. Dec 2013. Noda was born in 1985 in Saga prefecture and graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts with a BA in Oil Painting in 2009. Since then, she has pursued her career as an artist working with a wide variety of media. Her work is seemingly bright and tender. However, hidden beneath the surface is something dark and sometimes even cruel. In her new exhibition ‘Hope’, the theme is built on two Japanese words with the same sound to the ear, but with very different meanings. The themes are ‘death (死shi)’ and ‘poem (詩shi)’. Noda always has strong and clear concepts and this exhibition is no exception. In this work she expresses a compilation of her thoughts. She celebrates the wonder and complexities of being human and her hope in the human condition, which is capable of so many awful things but can also possess so much power and strength. She rejects the image of death as painful and sad, and in doing so hopes to create a work that is poetic in nature through a series of large scale paintings and installation artwork.