yoshinobu nakagawa, "connotation"mar. 15 - apr. 19, 2008taguchi fine art, ltd. |
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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 plants or relationship between plants (nature) and human being (farmer), or agriculture and cultivation, which is fundamental work to us. 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. This is his fourth show at taguchi fine art, ltd. In our daily life, we rarely pay attention to our clothes even when we put them on or take off. We notice a sweater only when we put it wrongly back to front or inside out, and wonder if inside and outside really exist. Also we usually do not care about our internal organs but recognize them only when we have headache or stomachache. It seems that we usually see only the surface of things and recognize what it is from our understanding through the surface. In 1980's, many sculptors in England declared, "sculpture is only its surface". It was very new and fresh idea at that time but I remember the message gave me a feeling of something wrong. The way to recognize things only with the observation of its surface must be connected with our current culture filled with picture images. The way to recognize things only with the visual images of the surface would be quite useful for the instant communication with other people. However, it has a defect that that recognition does not necessarily require our real experience, which is very important for us to live. The jugular in the recognition of things from those visual images is that our act to look does not always link with our act to think. We are completely left in a passive position. The theme of this one-person show of mine is "Connotation". Dr. Shigeo Miki, anatomist and embryologist, explained that "Human body consists of organs both of animal and plant. We can see a construction of plant when we turn the intestines inside out. Human body contains in its deep part elements of plant." So every animal contains elements of plant inside of the body. This fact is very important to me when I sculpts or draws. And I think it is the very interesting answer to the question "how things exist" in our daily life. It is my great pleasure if you could see something about it. Yoshinobu Nakagawa The relation of "surface" which can be caught by our gaze and the "interior structure" which we cannot see is the essential issue for sculpture. Nakagawa has been flung himself into this issue from the beginning of his career. As a clue to consider about this, several swelled relief works made of reclaimed paper and cowhide are on view. checklist of the installation 1. ridges on the table (pink #2), 2008 mixed media 41 x 17.5 x 32 cm 2. ridges on the content #2, 2008 mixed media 36.5 x 18.5 x 28.7 cm 3. fruits, root or head #1, 2008 mixed media 92 x 20 x 20 cm 4. untitled (segment) #7, 2000 mixed media 25 x 18 x 12 cm 5. untitled (segment) #13, 2000 mixed media 25 x 18 x 12 cm 6. two ridges enconter in the middle (arabesque), 2008 mixed media 104 x 18.5 x 20 cm 7. the seed which contains a wind, 2008 mixed media 85 x 14.5 x 34.5 cm |