*English CV follows.

阿部国生

1950〜　　兵庫県

アート未来会員

受賞歴
2016年 　 アート未来 大賞
2011年  　彩美展特選
               サロン・ドートンヌ入選（フランス）
2010年  　彩美展特選
               サロン・ドートンヌ入選（フランス）
2009年  　彩美展銀賞
               ワールド・イン・パリ銀賞（フランス）
2008年  　アート未来 奨励賞
               ル・サロン入選（作品「内なる物」）
               サロン・ドトーヌ入選（作品「ロード」）
               彩美展　銅賞（作品「街」）
               ワールド・イン・パリ金賞（フランス）
2007年  　フナール日仏美術展入選
               ワールド・イン・パリ銅賞（フランス）
2006年  　彩美展 特選

展覧会歴
（個展）
2019年 　 在ベルギー日本国大使館共同企画 EXISTENCE ／ 在ベルギー日本国大使館広報文化センター ／ ベルギー
               北井画廊／東京
2014年  　トーアギャラリー／兵庫
2012年  　トーアギャラリー／兵庫
2010年  　北井画廊／東京
               トーアギャラリー／兵庫
2008年  　ゆめやギャラリー／兵庫
               トーアギャラリー／兵庫
               クラインブルー／東京
2007年  　ポウ展／原田の森ギャラリー（兵庫県立美術館王子分館）／兵庫
2006年  　トーアギャラリー／兵庫

（グループ展）
2015年  　第20回国際公募アート未来選抜展（国立新美術館／東京）〈2011年より出品〉
2009年  　ワールド・イン・パリ展（パリ／フランス）〈2006年より出品〉



Kunio ABE

1950- / M / Hyogo

Member of The ART MIRAI ASSOCIATION

Prizes awarded
2016 　   ART MIRAI Grand Prize
2011    　Special Recognition at Saibiten Exhibition
              Accepted for Salon d'Automne (Paris, France)
2010    　Special Recognition at Saibiten Exhibition
              Accepted for Salon d'Automne (Paris, France)
2009    　Silver Prize at Saibiten Exhibition
              Silver Prize at World in Paris Exhibition (Paris, France)
2008    　ART MIRAI Incentive Award
              Accepted for Le Salon (“Inner Entity”)
              Accepted for Salon d'Automne (“Road”)
              Copper Prize at Saibiten Exhibition (“Town”)
              Gold Prize at World in Paris Exhibition (Paris, France)
2007    　Accepted for Fine Arts Japan-France Exhibition
              Copper Prize at World in Paris Exhibition (Paris, France)
2006    　Special Recognition at Saibiten Exhibition

Major exhibitions
(Private exhibitions)
2019 　   Japan related event co-organized with the Embassy
              “ EXISTENCE ” Kunio Abe Exhibition(Brussels)
              Gallery KITAI (Tokyo)
2014    　Toa Gallery (Hyogo)
2012    　Toa Gallery (Hyogo)
2010    　Gallery KITAI (Tokyo)
              Toa Gallery (Hyogo)
2008    　Gallery Yumeya (Hyogo)
              Toa Gallery (Hyogo)
              Klein Blue (Tokyo)
2007    　Pou Exhibition at Harada no Mori Gallery(Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Oji Branch) (Hyogo)
2006    　Toa Gallery (Hyogo)

(Group exhibitions)
2015    　20th ART MIRAI INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (The National Art Center Tokyo/Tokyo)
2009    　World in Paris Exhibition (Paris, France)


Vision and Existence

The artwork “Vision” series of Kunio Abe is like the scenery as if looking through a microscope appears on the canvas. Elementary particle which is the minimum unit constituting the substance, as to form the shape of everything gathered them, what we have usually eyes, or what convinced that is visible was limited in how superficial he asks. Continuous reticulated world as elastic waves looks like cells constituting the organism. Also the black line and object that appear in there seem to represent the whereabouts of the signal of the intention and feelings of organisms. Gravitational wave is called a phenomenon that travels at the speed of light as a wave by the time variation of the distortion of space-time that happened in the universe. If an organism is likened to a universe, intention and feelings that daily occur in a variety of causes emitted become a wave as the gravity wave. The “Vision” series portrays such as the "truth of the universe" and "origin of organisms " and the deep in the back of the more light and shadow. “Existence” series is contrasting works of Vision series. The principal theme in these both series are same. Abe expresses circulation of positivity and negativity, or nothingness and ens(exist) throughout his creation. A large artwork “Existence” that exhibit at LA Art Show 2017 was created after Kunio’s best friend (and his assistant manager) passed away. He was thinking about “meaning of existence” through the death of his friend, then he has expressed the answer in this work. The art work has won a grand prize in Art MIRAI exhibition 2016 that is one of publicly sponsored exhibitions in Japan.