Ryu Kimura"Kousoku nostalgia"

A solitary doll artist, Ryu Kimura's fantasy world

From box art to sculptural works, ball-jointed dolls, paintings, and more, the long-awaited first collection is a densely condensed world of beauty, eccentricity, and innocence!

In addition to photographs taken of three-dimensional works, representative works of paintings are also recorded, and the artist's work for over 30 years is gathered here!

Welcome to the mysterious world of daydreams unique to Ryu Kimura.

Photo: Nagare Tanaka and others

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★Publishing Commemorative Exhibition/Hatsudai Zaroff, Tokyo

December 15th (Thursday) to 27th (Tuesday), 2016

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★Ryu Kimura Profile

1950……Born in Kumamoto.

1969……Come to Tokyo. While doing things like drawing portraits, he aims to become a painter.

1974……From around this time, exhibited paintings at Nakano Broadway Gallery and other venues.

1982-……The first dolls were exhibited at the Harajuku Daily Planet. Through this exhibition, he became acquainted with Mr. Jin Yamamoto and Mr. Katan Amano, and later interacted with Mr. Ryo Yoshida and Ms. Koitsukihime, narrowing down his direction to dolls.

Since then, Matsuya (Ginza), Sunshine (Ikebukuro), Mitsukoshi (Yokohama), Seibu (Ikebukuro), Gallery Nakama (Denenchofu), Somebana (Shibuya), Gre (Kichijoji), Dolls Exhibition (Ginza), Dentsu Gallery (Ginza) etc.

1990-……Commissioned work for Sakichi Kataoka's "Maria no Heart".

2012〜……Solo exhibition at Zaroff (Hatsudai). Since then, Zaroff has participated in many exhibitions, and holds a solo exhibition at the end of each year.

In addition, Span Art Gallery (Ginza) [Phantom Beast Myth Exhibition, Doll's Show, Trick Art Exhibition, etc.], Parabolica Bis (Asakusa) [Renaissance, etc.], Vanilla Gallery (Ginza) [Ghost Gallery, etc.], Poupo Rindo (Kobe) ) [Tenkyukai Exhibition], Billiken Gallery (Minami Aoyama) [Yoka Kenran - Seishi Yokomizo Tribute], I・F・A・A 10th Anniversary FAS2016.

*In addition, since 2003, he has presided over the creative doll class "Iogii Kuni Tenshi Shokai".

B5 size, 96 pages, 3,500yen (consumption tax not included)