Exhibition View 2022: SAINTLY BODY by Emil Memon, Guest Artist Natsumi Goldfish

Dear all,
I am pleased to announce the solo exhibition "Saintly Body" by Emil Memon, which I am honored to be a guest artist, is extended until April 18, 2022. Before sharing photos I would like to share some messages in this blog.

This exhibition includes three works from me: two paintings and one drawing. The timely window painting is about the renunciation of war or a war-renouncing constitution which Japan has been holding since the end of World War II. I have my own ambition and opinion I wanted to share and manifest (and still today) to my own country and to the world about war and weapons and direction of future for everyone we should seek.

There is also a new music CD by the artist released at the opening of this exhibition (photos included in this blog scroll down). The CD features my art as a cover and back of the booklet. They will release Vynal also in the near future with same images. The musc is also available at all platform including iTunes and Amazon Music etc.

Below I am sharing exhibition installation photos in this blog below. Thank you for always checking my work and life. All exhibition photos in this blog are shot by the artist Emil Memon, (I did little adjustments to some of them).

Outside staircase before entering to the main gallery space. This area is also part of the exhibition. 

From here is the main gallery spaces

The exhibition also has a large (and heavy) column piece at outside communal square. 

Posters for the exhibition, on the back side there are information about the show in three languages. 

Here are some photos of the opening reception on local TV news. Iapanese embassy was also invited and attended to the opening.

Below are some pictures of a new music almum of the artist Emil Memon released at the openig day. It is featuring my drawing and painting was released at the opening of the exhibition. 

PRESS RELEASE (from their official website)

Emil Memon is a Koper-born visual artist and musician who has lived in New York for decades. He is considered to be the only Slovenian Pop art artist who is an active representative of the New York art scene.

His personal exhibition entitled Saintly Body, which opens at the Loža Gallery in Koper on Friday, February 4, 2022, at 6 pm, will be the first concise overview of his artworks to date in Slovenia. The project was created in collaboration with various participants and external experts.

The guest curators of the exhibition are Barbara Borčić (member of the SCCA-Center for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana) and dr. Tilen Žbona (artist and professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Primorska).

A special guest of the Saintly Body project is the Japanese artist Natsumi K Goldfish, who lives and works in New York and with whom the author has been collaborating for many years. The exhibition will be accompanied by a trilingual leaflet with texts by curators and authors, as well as a single “LOVE" from the album Saintly Body in a special edition of the music label Dallas Records from Ljubljana. The project is coordinated by Tatjana Sirk, curator of OGP.

Read the Full Press Release Here.