PAST EXHIBITION

Rudy Cremonini

Oh My Sweet KŪ

Jan 27th, 2024 - Feb 29th

104GALERIE (Nakameguro, Tokyo) is holding a solo exhibition by an Italian artist Rudy Cremonini “Oh My Sweet KŪ” from January 27th to February 29th 2024.
This exhibition, the third one by the artist after 2 years since the last time, will have 10 new pieces of painting of various sizes.

KŪ in the title Oh My Sweet KŪ is the Japanese word 空, meaning “nothingness”, or “emptiness”. Yet it is not simply being nothing,
but also a space between the audience and the canvas, or the subect of the painting and their backgroud. It also reflects the artist’s
intention to deal with “nothingnes = the status of being or feeling empty, or having nothing exisitng” as a theme of this series of work.

In the subject Cremonini paints, there is always a sense of emptiness, solidarity, and “a space with absence”. The painting of the artist,
who begins working without sketches and study but by applying paint directly on the canvas, conveys the process of his thoughts as he
tells in the following:

The first dialogue between myself and the paint was perhaps long, slow signs or lines with the brush, without removing it from the canvas.
With no rationale in mind, I chose to paint images through which lines can emerge or gain meaning.
The images I used helped me to find lines to paint.
In this way, lines change their meanings, becoming edges or borders.
Where there is a line there is an edge, where there is a horizontal there is a vertical, where there is a boundary there is something inside or
something outside.
This was not a rational process.
To my great surprise, my work, or my theme, emerged from this, and is evolving from it.
I naturally understood why a “gate” could become a “zebra in a zoo”, or a swimming pool, or a clearly defined tennis court.
After many paintings, I understood the meaning.
It was a natural process.

I have recently been thinking over this reflection:
If I made lines or edges, I would like to paint the void within them.
The works in this show illuminate this theme.

– Rudy Cremonini

profile

Rudy Cremonini was born in Bologna, Italy in 1981, and is currently based there, after graduating from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna (The Academy of
Fine Arts Bologna). His exhibitions have been held in the Royal Palace of Caserta (2018, Italy), Galerie Thomas Fuchs (2017, Stuttgart, Germany), Belgrade City
Museum (2017, Serbia) and many other places such as the US, France, Germany and Belgium. He has gained international acknowledgement though solo and
group shows around the world and received a variety of awards.
Also in recent years he had a great success in Shanghai, China, such as the first solo exhibition at Capsule Shanghai (2022), and participation to the contemporary
art fair West Bund Art & Design (2023)

Solo Exhibitions

2023

“Whispered”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

2022

“Capriccio”, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi)

2021

“When the Music Is Over”, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China

“Lull”, Semiose (Project Room), Paris, France

“Room 104”, 104GALERIE, Tokyo, Japan

“New Works”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

2019

“Del processo e dell’archivio”, Museo della città di Rimini, Rimini, Italy

“Del processo e dell’archivio”, Museo della città di Rimini, Rimini, Italy

“Room”, C2 CONTEMPORANEA2, Florence, Italy

“Borders”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

“The Roots of Lotus”, 104Galerie, Tokyo, Japan

“Limbo”, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

2018

“Nessun Dorma”, Reggia di Caserta, Caserta, Italy

2017

“Il temporale non esite”, Galleria L’Ariete Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy

“Foresta. Pittura Natura Animale”, Selvatico Dodici, Palazzo Sforza, Cotignola, Ravenna, Italy

“The Club”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

2016

“CPT centro di permanenza temporaneo”, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

“Zone du sicurezza Rudy Cremonini”, Teatro Comunale Bologna, Bologna, Italy

2015

“le jardin intérieur”, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Strasburgo, Strasbourg, France

“the pleasure is yours”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

“Alla fine il cielo”, TOMAV Torre di Moresco Centro Arti Visive, Moresco, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2023

“Landscape and Depth”, Curated by Xia Yanguo , KICHE, Seoul, Korea

“Italian Painting Today ”,Triennale Milano, Milano, Italy

2022

“Flowers”, Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany

“Who Killed Bambi?”, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Casso, Pordenone, Italy

2020

“104 Galerie Collection”, 104Galerie, Tokyo, Japan

2019

“High Five!”, Galleria Doris Ghetta, Ortisei, Italy

“Wonderland”, PAK Gistel, Gistel, Belgium

“I <3 Paint 3”, Patel Gallery, Tronto, Canada

2018

“Tecnica mista su carta”, Il Frantoio, Capalbio, Italy

“Simposio di pittura”, Fondazione Lac O Le Mon, Lecce, Italy

“Faces”, Psychiatrisch Centrum Sint-Amandus – Beernem, Belgium, PAK and the Museum Dr. Guislain, Gistel, Belgium

2017

“The burning Island”, City Museum of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

2016

“Vaiomer”, Jewish Museum, Bologna, Italy

OUTLINE

Oh My Sweet KŪ
Rudy Cremonini

Period

January 27th to February 29th 2024

Reception

January 26th (Fri.) 18:00-20:00
*The artist will be be at the gallery

Closed

on Sunday, Public holidays
*Closed on February 12th – 16th

Hours

11:00 – 17:00

Venue

104GALERIE
FORCE Building B1F
1-20-4 Aobadai Meguro-ku Tokyo

Installation view