artist statement
lunimous dropping incline
I have recently begun to create long, slender works in the vertical direction,
moving away from the square-shaped paintings in my previous series, which I have been doing for about three years.
For my new series
in addition to the three fundamental elements of "movement, space and light" that I have been working before.
The reason for the elongated paintings is that I had long ago discovered a certain beauty in the paint that flowed a few centimeters wide on the sides of the canvas.
but in experimenting with this, I was reminded of the passage of time.
A large amount of paint poured slowly into the tilted canvasses, flowing down in a gentle arc (or quick, depending on the angle of inclination) in the direction of gravity.
Various expressions appear in the trajectory, spaces are created in the overlapping paints, and colors are clothed in light.
At the same time, the relationship between them is clearly visualized and a "timeline" is expressed.
In the year 2020, the world's unprecedented events that have occurred around the world have transformed various existing systems and continue to shake even the five senses that are the basis of human life.
For me as well, the impact has been so great that it has forced me to fundamentally rethink my daily life and creative activities.
The sense that we are simply carried along by the raging waves in front of us, the workings of society and nature that are difficult to resist, the unstoppable flow of time, my present purpose of "painting" may be to express these points.
Even a huge river is made up of countless trivial water droplets, and I believe that the private act of painting can be one of the elements of this society.
In this exhibition, I plan to create the works in the gallery space as an attempt to let viewers experience the same timeline.I hope to share not only the works that I have completed in the studio, but also the events and times that happen on site.
Text: nakajima mugi August 2020
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