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　　　　　　　 Kimio Kawaguchi has learned in Vienna and in Florence,
　　　　 the painting techniques of those old masters in Renaissance.
　　　　He is a rare artist who continues to create his own world
as his "inner reality".

2004　 LUNA 　162.1×274.5

In the early 1980s, the words, "Those who long for their missing homeland"
have occupied an important position in my heart.
Nevertheless, is there any natal place for them to go back?　Therefor I have been painting as a recorder of their journey of the mind.

Painting a picture is similar to planting a tree, I think.
I am painting again today, wishing a symbolic wood with full of hidden metaphors
would appear on the canvas.

I am often asked, "Why do you stick to the mixed technique?"
"Because I want right oils. " I would answer.　In some of my works,
I replaced tempera white with oil colors, but nobody noticed that.

　　　　[ Biography ]

1951	Born in Nagasaki Pref., Japan.
1974-1977	Studied at HOCHSCHULE ＦÜR ANGEWANDTE KUNST IN WIEN, Austria.
	Learned the mixed technique of Northern Renaissance, especially Breughel's works
	under the Vienna school master, Prof. Wolfgang Hutter.
1978-2011	Individual exhibitions: Gallery Saihodo, Aoki Gallery, Mitsukoshi, Tokyo
	and Matsuzakaya, Nagoya, etc.
1985-1986	Studied in Italy as an overseas trainee of the Agency for Cultural Affairs.
	Learned the mixed technique of Italian Renaissance, mainly about Fra Angelico in
	LABORATORIO DI RESTAURO NELLA SOPRINTENDENZA DI FIRENZE.
1986	A group exhibition, "Artists Born after World War II ゛,Miyagi Prefectural Museum,
	in Miyagi.
1987	Received an award for excellence, Yasui prize.
1994	A group exhibition, The Kanayama Heizo prize, at
	Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, in Hyogo.
1996	An individual exhibition at Niigata Prefectural Museum, Niigata
2001	Appeared in a TV program, "Those who long for their missing homeland"
	by NHK..
2002	An individual exhibition at Ikeda Museum of 20th Century Art,
	in Shizuoka.
2006	Exhibited works for the Modern Art Biennial of Fukushima, in Fukushima
2007	"Travel to the Heart" exhibition at Art Fair in Tokyo.
2009	An individual exhibition at Tobi Art Fair, Tokyo.
2010	Individual exhibitions at Special Triennial Tobi Art Fair, and Saihodo Gallery, in Tokyo
	respectively.

	Teaches at several art universities at present.
	A member of JAPAN ARTISTS ASSOCIATION

　　　　　　

☆ Most of the works are painted in tempera and oils on the prepared boards.　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　

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