rin art association is pleased to present “Black Face, White Fa ce,” a solo exhibition of Nanae Mitobe on the 1st and 2nd floors. Mitobe has been creating and exhibiting large scale paintings with bold, thick layers of paint. In this exhibition, her first since returning to Japan, she will exhibit a series of anonymous “faces” painted with black and white paint on black iron and canvas, including a work that too k six years to complete. We hope you will appreciate the origin and also the new expression of painting b y Mitobe, who has painted many “faces” as motifs up to the present day.