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yoshinobu nakagawa, "surfacism"august 26 - september 22, 2017taguchi fine art, tokyo |
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Born in Osaka in 1964, Yoshinobu Nakagawa now resides in Shiga prefecture. Ever since his first one-person show in 1987, the year he graduated from Osaka University of Art, Nakagawa's motif has been consistently relationship between plants (nature) and human being (farmer), namely, agriculture and cultivation, that is a fundamental activity to us. or structure of plants. For Nakagawa, relation between artist and art works resembles that between farmer and plants. He puts pigment on canvas as famers sow plant seeds on the earth. He works on materials as farmers cultivate the field. His artisanship, which freely controls every kind of materials and the poetic emotions sprung from the naive form of his work, has attracted many people. And his works are housed in many museum collections as the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo or Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama and in many company collections as Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K., Tokyo. Recently he proposes the idea of "Surfacism." He emphasizes the importance of the surface of art works and insists that the surface of art work, even in case of two dimensional works/painting, should let the viewers imagine its inner structure or its reverse side. On this occasion, installed are his new relief works, and drawings piled up in many layers and consolidated with plaster as mille-feuille cake. Please come to take a look of them. We hope you can imagine the inner structure or the reverse side from the surface of these works. checklist of the installation 1. Conbination Painting - Grey, Cream, 2017 wooden panel, cotton, acrylic, string an heat 100 x 64.5 x 12.5 cm 2. Layer #004, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 3. Layer #007, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 4. Layer #003, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 5. Layer #005, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 6. Layer #008, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 7. Layer #009, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 8. Combination Painting - Pink Rose, 2017 wooden panel, cotton, rayon, acrylic, pigment, string and heat 100 x 64.5 x 12.5 cm 9. Combination Painting - White, 2017 wooden panel, cotton, rayon, acrylic, string and heat 100 x 64.5 x 12.5 cm 10. Layer #002, 2017 oil on canvas, plaster, acrylic, cotton and beeswax 12.8 x 9.8 x 4.5 cm 11. Combination Painting - Verdigris, 2017 wooden panel, cotton, rayon, acrylic, pigment, metal powder, string and heat 100 x 64.5 x 12.5 cm |