Blue planet (ciel et nuages), 2013

Nao Kaneko  

A painting from the "Blue Planet" series depicts a blue sky with moving clouds. It was exhibited during the Festival Normandie Impressionniste labeled exhibition in 2016 at the Hôtel de la Région Normandie in Rouen. The exhibition was titled "Monet – Clemenceau, the Infinite Horizon, Paintings by Nao Kaneko." It was also featured in the catalog of the Normandy Region. On the first page, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, historian and president of the Clemenceau Museum Foundation, wrote:
The Tiger will never cease to surprise us. Almost a century after his disappearance, here he emerges alive in the heart of the "Festival Normandie Impressionniste" hosted by the Region in its Rouen hotel. Monet – Clemenceau, the infinite horizon - Paintings by Nao Kaneko: this well-crafted exhibition, blending history, old photography, and painting from yesterday and today, reveals a little-known Clemenceau, intimately attached to this land where he once owned the small Château de Bernouville, not far from Monet's Giverny, his dear Claude Monet, to this land he so loved to smell, traverse, honor. The genius of two magnificent friends is celebrated today, in echo, by the works of the Japanese artist Nao Kaneko. Let us salute! Let us savor!
This painting establishes a link between painting and sculpture through the technique of plaster sculpting on canvas and by the materials left on the surface. Very luminous, dominated by the blue of the sky, the volumes of the evolving white clouds bring bursts of light into the exhibition space.