THE SHOPHOUSE "KUROBIKARI '..り" Exhibition Focuses on Artistic Deviations

Rounding up the year, THE SHOPHOUSE recently launched its latest exhibition, titled "KUROBIKARI '..り." Literally translated to "black shine/luster" in Japanese, the word evokes emotions of revulsion and reverence. A historically and culturally rich concept, kurobikari is disruptive in its symbolism of a melding of unrelated widely divergent sentiments with the color black.Rejecting the concepts of death, fear, and filth, Japanese contemporary artists Osamu Kobayashi, Lintalow Hashiguchi, Kazum...