Imon Boy

WE HAVE IT ALL

5 Jan - 3 Feb, 2024

AISHONANZUKA is pleased to start the new year by presenting Imon Boy’s Asian solo debut “WE HAVE IT ALL” on view from the 5th January to 3rd February, 2024.

In this exhibition, Imon Boy brought a series of new canvas works and comic graffiti paper works, inviting us back to that midsummer dream. Imon Boy, with his roots in street graffiti, excels at depicting various life-like scenes, often in various cinematic perspectives, with a sense of humor. Departing from the text art form of graffiti, Imon Boy's work is a testimony to blending street graffiti techniques with contemporary cartoon elements. The great light and shade contrasts in soft and smooth strokes fully embrace the infinite possibilities when two art forms collide and evolve. For Imon Boy, the transition from summer to autumn marks a special occasion, as good times are fleeting. Living in the present and cherishing every encounter, or “carpe diem” described by the artist himself, is the way to live by.

People come and go, just as water flows in and out as tides. Although summer has passed as the season changes, bits of sweetness will always stay in the shining waves under the sun. Let us pay tribute to the friendships that have passed, as well as the beach and sunset that a few would know.

AISHONANZUKA 欣然呈獻西班牙藝術家 Imon Boy 於亞洲首個個人展覽「WE HAVE IT ALL」。展期為 2024 年 1 月5 日至 2 月 3 日。

本次展覽中，Imon Boy 帶來了一系列布本新作及漫畫塗鴉紙本作品，邀請我們夢回那個仲夏的萍水相逢。街頭塗鴉藝術家出身的 Imon Boy 擅長以幽默的格調，以如電影分鏡般的不同視角描繪各種經由現實生活場景啟發的情節，真實卻不失趣味。有別侷限於文字藝術的塗鴉創作，Imon Boy 的作品是揉合街頭塗鴉技法和當代卡通元素的轉化見證。其作品裏對比極其鮮明的光影和柔軟順滑的筆觸充分體現了不同藝術形式碰撞和進化的無限可能性。於 Imon Boy 而言，從夏至秋的更迭交替象徵了一場期間限定的盛典，寄語我們美好的時光稍縱即逝。活在當下、珍視每一段來之不易的緣分，才是最難能可貴的。

人來人往，萍水之間載滿道不盡的離合聚散。春去秋來，儘管夏日已然逝去，回甘的點滴永遠留在映著陽光的波光粼粼中。讓我們一同致敬那段就此別過的友誼，以及那個少數人知曉的海灘和日落。

  • I was born in a place where people come and go. In a neighborhood where most people go spend their vacations on the coast, enjoy crystal-clear beaches, the sun, the food and the place itself. The usually empty streets are filled with cars during the summer months. The nights are filled with the scents of jasmine, lady of the night and orange blossom, and the mornings smell of sunscreen and the sea.

    I have made brief connections with people all my life. I meet someone one summer and probably won't see them again until the next. Until one day they don't come back—the foreign boy who came on vacation and went out to paint with me, a group of holidaymakers I met on the summer nights or the girl you like so much but just at the best moment she returns to her city.

    Even to this day I receive short visits from a lot of friends. We paint, we eat and we talk about life. They return to their city and I don't see them again until the following year. I only get to see some of them one day in my entire life, but I still stay in touch with them. They have all influenced me in some way, and I know I have influenced them too.

    Maybe all those "carpe diem" moments have taught me to value my time, my space and every person entering my life by destiny. I was born in front of the sea, I still live there. I live where they want to travel to for vacation. I value what I have and I share it every summer of my life. I share my favorite places, the fig trees and my best spots to snorkel and see thousands of fish. On a tourist beach you wouldn't be able to see them, trust me.

    When September arrives everything ends. The sunsets and the colors of the sea are different. Tourists disappear, friends leave, the neighborhood calms down with all the blinds drawn. And there is no one left on the beach. It's mine again. Reunited in calmness and intimacy. Patiently waiting for the next summer.