Keeenue Exhibition『Color Outside the Lines』

<Exhibition Contents>
In addition to exhibiting collages and large works, focusing on colorful new paintings, Keeenue himself will make public works by live painting during the exhibition period.

<Live Performance Schedule>
・January 17, 2025 (Fri), January 18 (Sat), January 19 (Sun), Friday, January 24
※Please note that the schedule of lipe performance is subject to change in some cases.

※The image is an image. In addition, it will be a part of the exhibition.
※The contents of the project are subject to change without notice.

<Exhibition Commemorative Products/Collaboration Goods Information>
In this exhibition, we will sell exhibition commemorative products to commemorate the exhibition. Some of the products are listed.
※Purchase restrictions may be set.
※The number of products is limited, so please forgive us when sold out.
※All prices include tax.
※The contents of the project are subject to change without notice.

 

LS Tee-Color Outside the Lines (Gray/Black) ¥6,380 KIDS Tee (Burgundy/Apricot) ¥4,950 Drip Bag "ZODIAC MIX" ¥324/24 in a dedicated case ¥7,777.

<Received Products>
At the exhibition venue, we will sell order products jointly by Keeenue and MoonlightGear. ※Scheduled to be shipped around April 2025

・What is HUD?
HIGH TAIL DESIGNS is an emerging garage manufacturer born in Virginia, USA, that uses special printing technology to create tools for HIKER by creating colorful prints on a material called DCF (formerly Cubenfiber). We are developing collaborative works with various artists on the theme of nature.

Hiking Gaiter. ¥4,950 Ultralight Drawstring Stuff Sack ¥7,700 / Dcf Ground Cloth ¥110,000 / Ultralight Roll-Top Stuff Sack "Large" ¥17,600

＜PROFILE＞

Keeenue
Born in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1992
Graduated from the Department of Graphic Design at Tama Art University in 2016.
He develops a wide range of activities, including murals, painting, three-dimensional works, and digital live painting. Keeenue is a coined word derived from the real name of KANA's Katakana reading (Kaeei). The work, which expresses the gap between concrete and abstract in a colorful way, creates an opportunity to stir the imagination of each viewer and deepen their interpretation. The original world view, which continues to change regardless of style or genre, is supported by many people, and exhibits in London, Taiwan, and Bangkok, as well as numerous collaborations such as Nike, Facebook, Starbucks, Sapporo Beer, etc. Major solo exhibitions and projects include "Between Truth and Reality" (HARUKAITO by island/2024), "Roppongi Art Night" (2023), "Yanbaru Art Festival" (2023, 2024), "PROJECT ATAMI" (2022).

＜Artist Statement＞
Twelve years ago, as an art college student, I was working at this Parco Museum. I was vaguely imagining the future in a part-time job, and I enjoyed thinking about what I could do. Someone said, "I can do what I can imagine." But if we had already traced the future that someone had followed, it was natural that we could do it. I want to think about the future that is not so.
As an artist, I'm afraid of calming down in one answer. No, it's boring rather than scary. I feel like I've been trying various challenges on my own, but from a bird's-eye view, it was coming and going in a small frame. "Artists should not be their own prisoners, style prisoners, reputational prisoners, or success prisoners," Matisse says, but I wonder if that is the case.
What I like is to manipulate colors and shapes. While traveling back and forth between art and commerce, he explored the balance between concrete and abstract, visual and narratives. Then, by intentionally breaking the balance, he experimented with playing and experimented with new expressions. In the live painting of this exhibition, I decided to draw on a canvas on the ring with a long stick from outside. I don't know what will be born, I might betray my expectations.
But the only thing that keeps changing shows the axis that does not change. Avoid standing on the same ring as others, and the tension that arises between expectations and challenges is driving me. At that time, what I envisioned in this place must have been different from what is now here. But this was good. If the next frame appears outside the frame, I will also be concerned about the outside. So here is one point of the endless exploration, and a new starting point.

Keeenue