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Venue:	PARCO FACTORY Parco Factory Shibuya Parco Part 1 and 6F
Period	October 17, 2009 (Sat) – November 3, 2009 (Tue) ※Open during the exhibition period 10:00am - 9:00pm ※Admission until 30 minutes before closing ※The last day ends at 6:00pm
Admission fee:	General 300 yen (tax included), student 200 yen, high school students and younger free
Host:	PARCO
Contact	03-3477-5873 (Palco Factory)
Planning + production:	Parco + Kiki + TechnoPro

When I turned it upside down, I saw the universe, 2007
Acrylic on canvas
©2007 Akane Koide/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.

　We are pleased to announce the solo exhibition "Women's Brain Small Room" by high school artist Akane Koide as part of Parco Factory PARCO 40th Anniversary Project vol.4.
Akane Koide, an active high school student artist who debuted at the age of 15 when he was a junior high school student and is now 18 years old. This will be the first full-scale solo exhibition.

　A junior high school student belonging to Kiki Kiki, Cinderella Girl, who was scouted after participating in the art festival, GEISAI, and brought her talent at once. I already have a track record as a professional, but behind that, there is a strict but steady training time. The results of returning to the vacation and facing the canvas while balancing with school work will be unveiled at this exhibition.

　On the screen based on calm blue, green, smoky pink, etc., girls with silent eyes. You may hide quietly in a shoe box, play with animals and flowers, or be yourself inside, depict mysterious scenes with a small alter ego, and sometimes comically charming. They blend into the picture freely and do not get tired of the viewer. The style of painting is also diverse, with everyday scenery and things mixed like a collage, and some pieces with a superb graphical decoration. The joyful feeling of trying various techniques and enjoying drawing is overflowing from the screen.

　Born as an extension of graffiti influenced by manga, Koide's work continues to change every moment, as if to keep pace with her own growth. In the early days, a modest girl who couldn't communicate well with others often depicted worries and everyday events at school, and adolescent-specific "damaged" was turned into a subject.
However, regardless of the context of the existing art education and art scene, after purely working on painting and gaining the reputation of the people, she began to speak eloquently in the word of creation of painting, and now she became aware of the joy of connecting with the world, the girls who were worried about moving around the fantasy world. The painting became a magic wing that flew freely around the world, making it an important place to stay for her.

　It's not a retrospective youth, but a modern teenage real. Koide's puberty imagination is slowly nurtured in the spirit of confronting the stupid world and the sense of expectation that the future will open. The viewer will be surprised by the emergence of new talents with various thoughts in their hearts.

Sales details

■Special price 1,200 yen (tax included) Exhibition of the individual magazine "Women's Brain Small Room"
■8,400 yen (tax included) for each of the two posters
■Picture book "Yakusoku Dorobo" List price 1,260 yen (tax included)

Work

Akane Koide was 18 years old, born in 1991. I'm a young high school student artist.
　The artist Akane Koide, who debuted in a way that is supported by the needs of the times, has not solidified the way of expression and does not understand the history of art, but he can draw his own message without fear in front of Canvas. If the melody and lyrics are good, if you have a voice and a guitar, you can explode your talents with brushes and paints like musicians who can impress many people. The theme of Akane Koide's work is based on the familiar problems of her high school student.
　I'm also paying attention to her style of painting. At first glance, it's like a manga. I draw the manga-style picture on Canvas with acrylic. Why do you ignore manga even though it has become a world language? If you look for the answer to the question, as a matter of course, the logic that "art of manga painting is good" rather "art of manga painting is real" is established.

Akane Koide, Akane Koide

Born in Tokyo in 1991.
Participated in a booth at GEISAI 9 in 2006 and participated in a collaboration project at the 3rd Tokyo Girls Collection and GEISAI 10 co-hosted party. Debuted solo exhibition at the 4th Girls Collection. Since he was a junior high school student, he has already sponsored as a professional artist.