AAA_chan Exhibition Paris 2026 : Les Treize Nuits
When: 01.10.2026 19:00
Where: 48.849813, 2.343455
Organizer: Admin
Self-taught Japanese artist, AAA_chan pays tribute to shunga — those ukiyo-e prints dedicated to love — by reinterpreting classic scenes through mischievous and tender cats, in her own pictorial style. For her first solo exhibition in Paris, she presents “The Thirteen Nights”: thirteen original works, painted on hanging scrolls (kakejiku) and on framed canvases. This number has a double meaning: thirteen as the number of works displayed, but also as a nod to a Japanese legend that the cat — absent from the twelve signs of the traditional zodiac — is actually the thirteenth, forgotten by history. Each work revisits a love scene from ancient shunga, sometimes tender, sometimes mischievous, always imbued with modesty and humor; some pieces even dialogue with iconic ukiyo-e masterpieces, like a playful wink to Hokusai’s Dream of the Fisherman's Wife, where the octopus becomes a squid and the diver, a mischievous cat. The exhibition also features an invited work from a patron of the artist. A resolutely purple and gold universe, between Japanese tradition and contemporary energy.
Tags: cats, japanese, exhibition, art
Source: https://www.paris.fr/evenements/aaa_chan-exhibition-paris-2026-les-treize-nuits-123126
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