Chiho Aoshima. Moimoi and Kitty Leaving for a Journey, 2009. Seattle Asian Art Museum.
CHIHO AOSHIMA: REBIRTH OF THE WORLD
MAY 2 – OCT 4 2015
Seattle Asian Art Museum
http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/exhibitions/chiho
Here’s what I love about Chiho Aoshima’s show, in a nutshell: the repetition of the theme of the delicate sylph whose flatulence creates smoke clouds billowing from volcanos while Buddha and entourage look on.
Aoshima’s digital and hand drawns are in the superflat style, but whereas the tween-girl characters of Mr.’s show had cutesy moe details, like bandaids and pigtails, Aoshima’s figures reject that aesthetic. Her mural-size piece Rebirth and the video installation Takaamanohara have been compared to Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights.
TO THE SEA, BEARING MOI MOI, 2009, CHIHO AOSHIMA, JAPANESE, B. 1974, COLOR ON JAPANESE RICE PAPER, 12 5/8 × 8 1/16 IN., ©2009 CHIHO AOSHIMA/KAIKAI KIKI CO., LTD. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
