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芹野 直子 展覧会
芹野 直子 展覧会
芹野 直子 展覧会
芹野 直子 展覧会

芹野 直子Naoko Serino

芹野直子は、自然素材ジュート（黄麻）が持つ素朴な力強さと繊細な質感に魅せられ、彫刻表現へと昇華させてきたアーティストです。
繊維が重なり、ねじれ、ほぐれ、再び結び直されることで生まれる立体は、生命体の成長や記憶の層を思わせ、観る者に静かな対話を促します。芹野の作品は、素材そのものの呼吸を尊重しながらも、造形には緊張感と詩的な余白が宿っています。
ジュートの荒い肌理、影を柔らかく抱き込む質感、経年変化とともに深まる色合い——。
それらが複雑に絡み合い、天然素材ならではのあたたかさと存在感を放ちます。
国内外の個展・グループ展に多数出展しており、browngrotta arts（USA）、Kulturhuset Rejsestalden（Denmark）、The Sculpture Center（USA）、Villa Bernasconi（Italy）などで作品を発表。“Fiber Futures-Japan's Textile Pioneers”Exhibition に選抜され参加しました。また、2008年の第10回KAJIMA彫刻コンクールで銀賞を受賞。彫刻が金属、木、石などの素材で作られることが多い中で、繊維で作られた作品が彫刻として認められ斬新な素材使い、彫刻の常識を覆す、素晴らしい快挙と評価されました。
その後、2020年には　第16th. KAJIMA 彫刻コンクール 奨励賞など受賞歴も多数あります。

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Naoko Serino is an artist who has been captivated by the rustic power and delicate texture inherent in the natural material of jute, elevating it into sculptural expression.
The three-dimensional forms born fromb fibers that overlap, twist, unravel, and are tied together again evoke layers of memory and the growth of living organisms, inviting quiet dialogue with the viewer.
While Serino’s works honor the natural breath of the material itself, they also carry a sense of tension and poetic openness within their forms.
The coarse grain of jute, its texture that gently embraces shadows, and the deepening hues that emerge over time—
all intertwine in intricate ways, radiating a warmth and presence possible only with natural materials.
She has exhibited widely in both solo and group exhibitions in Japan and abroad, presenting her work at institutions such as browngrotta arts (USA), Kulturhuset Rejsestalden (Denmark), The Sculpture Center (USA), and Villa Bernasconi (Italy). She was also selected to participate in the Fiber Futures – Japan's Textile Pioneers exhibition.
In 2008, she received the Silver Prize at the 10th Kajima Sculpture Competition. At a time when sculpture was primarily associated with materials such as metal, wood, and stone, her fiber-based work was recognized as sculpture—an innovative use of material that challenged existing conventions. This was highly regarded as a remarkable and
groundbreaking achievement.
She later received further distinctions, including the Encouragement Prize at the 16th Kajima Sculpture Competition in 2020, among many other awards.

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