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[Five-Artist Show] Animals Painted by Fourth-Year Geidai Oil Painting Students — "Mofumofu Exhibition" @ Lucky (Nezu)

【5人展】藝大油画科4年生が描く動物たち〜「もふもふ展」@ラッキー(根津)

I visited “Mofumofu Exhibition,” a group show on the theme of animals by five fourth-year students from the Tokyo University of the Arts oil painting department. The venue is the curry restaurant “Lucky” in Nezu. Exhibitions at cafés are common, but shows held in a curry shop must be rather rare.
For details on “Lucky,” please see below.

Emi Hatano

Emi Hatano is fond of works with rabbits as her motif.

Aoi Furuya

Aoi Furuya is an artist who often paints flowers as her motif.

Animals appear as well, but the works read more like landscape paintings that include grasses and flowers.

Aoi Furuya, "Kakeru Aida" (Space to Run), oil
Aoi Furuya, “Kakeru Aida” (Space to Run), oil
Aoi Furuya, "Buddy," drawing
Aoi Furuya, “Buddy,” drawing

I was struck by both artists’ works back at the “Shinkirou Exhibition” during their third year at Geidai.

Center: Yukari Kakei, "Natsuyasumi" (Summer Vacation) / Two works in the back: Yuka Yoshizawa
Center: Yukari Kakei, “Natsuyasumi” (Summer Vacation) / Two works in the back: Yuka Yoshizawa
Tokio, "La vie en rose"
Tokio, “La vie en rose”

Because it is a small shop, the exhibition space isn’t especially large.
The number of works is small enough to leave you wanting more, but during a curry meal — never a long one — glancing over at the works from time to time turns out to be

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