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yoshinobu nakagawa, "coppicing"oct. 19 - nov. 16, 2013taguchi 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. Nakagawa who lives in Satoyama - the border area between mountain foothills and arable flat land - of the west coast of Lake Biwa was thinking about "Coppicing" recently. "Coppicing" is originally a word for a traditional method of woodland management but it also has a meaning to "Restart". We have encountered to the natural disaster of unprecedented scale and the collapse of existing values. How shall we restart ? This time, new sculptures will be installed. checklist of the installation 1. Coppicing#1, 2013 cotton, acrylic, cowhide, string, beeswax 144 x 11 x 15 cm 2. Segment (rose), 2013 wood, reclaimed paper, acrylic, cotton , string, beeswax 33 x 17 x 10 cm 3. Segment (red), 2013 wood, reclaimed paper, acrylic, cotton , string, beeswax 33 x 17 x 10 cm 4. Model#1, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 18 x 11 x 9.5 cm 5. Model#2, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 22 x 8 x 9.5 cm 6. Model#3, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 20 x 14 x 10 cm 7. Model#4, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 13 x 23 x 9 cm 8. Model#5, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 19.5 x 13.5 x 10 cm 9. Model#7, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 21 x 14 x 9.5 cm 10. Model#8, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 22 x 11.5 x 9 cm 11. Model#9, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 22 x 10.5 x 9 cm 12. Model#10, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 25.5 x 9 x 9.5 cm 13. Model#11, 2013 wood, cotton, acrylic, beeswax 25 x 10.5 x 9.5 cm |