The Divine Gas, 2006

In 2006, Chiho Aoshima designed a stunning new mural for the inaugural Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall. The image she created, entitled The Divine Gas, depicts a giant girl lying in a lush landscape. The setting seems idyllic and serene—butterflies flutter, a deer nestles near her foot, a couple frolics hand-in-hand. Meanwhile, a billowing cloudscape, lorded over by a genie creature, emerges from her bottom. A few figures sit in the clouds, while others tumble toward the ground. Has the heroine given birth to a new (though somewhat ominous) world through her “divine gas?” Aoshima transforms passing gas, a mundane occurrence that is usually no more than the source of schoolyard snickers, into a delightfully irreverent, present-day myth.

Biography
Chiho Aoshima was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1974, where she currently lives and works. She received a degree in economics from Hosei University in Tokyo. Aoshima has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Ecstasy: In and About Altered States at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2005); the 54th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004-05); the Liverpool Biennial (2002); and Superflat, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2001). In 2006, she had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Lyon, France, as well as an installation in the London Underground’s Gloucester Road Station.

Approx. 22" x 33"

$5,000.00

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