Imura art gallery tokyo proudly presents the solo exhibition of Ai Ryumon,"Kiku to Sakana (Chrysanthemum and Fish)."

Through her artwork, Ai Ryumon (born in Okayama in 1984) depicts her own view of the world by incorporating her modernized sense about our daily life into the images of formalized Japanese tradi- tional culture. Ryumon's art works and her precise and unconventional images challenge the fuzzy sense of the world that we hold as we live in modern Japan.

This exhibition entitled "Kiku to Sakana (Chrysanthemum and Fish)"is the first solo exhibition of Ai Ryumon to be held at imura art gallery tokyo.

Her works serve as an homage to the famous book,"Kiku to Katana (The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese) by the late Ruth Benedict, an anthropologist and a scholar of Japanese studies. These pieces will be exhibited with the "sight-seeing series"initiated in 2010, where Ryumaon, who currently lives in Japan, depicts Japan as seen from an outsider's view through her deep perception of our life and culture and using her witty and creative touch of art.

*image (left)
© Ai Ryumon
courtesy of the artista and Imura Art Gallery