Daisuke Ohba "Labyrinth"
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At Magical, Artroom
Media: Painting, Art Talk
Two things can be said regarding the works by Daisuke Oniwa, his paintings especially: the images depicted on canvas are indistinguishably pale, and these horrifically shaped figures not just resemble horror movies but are rather an obvious reference to them.
Why does he use such hair-raising images? The reason is closely linked to another characteristic of his. For it can be said that the paleness of these images that are retrogressing in terms of strength is a result of its emergence in the middle ground between the physical world that constitutes our universe and the realm of images. The energy borne by the contradictions and oppositions of the physical world not only causes a fissure between the material and the image but gushes out from that fissure and becomes the form itself, therefore bringing back the dead. It goes back and forth along the boundary between the material and the image and delimits the zero vector of the image by a repeated cycle of formation and deformation. The forms render the limitations of the realm of images by appealing to us the miserable distress of this physical world, and yet at the same time they are denoting its potentiality. (Kentaro Ichihara)
Opening Reception: Friday, April 14, 7pm-
Talk Show by Kentaro Ichihara + artist: Saturday, April 22, 7pm-
Schedule
From 2006-04-11 To 2006-04-28
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Reviews
A friend and I ended a recent weekend tour of Tokyo's galleries at Roppongi's Complex building, and though much of the work there was compelling, it was Daisuke Ohba's exhibition “Labyrinth” at the newest of the building's spaces -Magical Artroom- that seemed to be the focus of our coffee shop recap afterward.
