TAB Event - Yoshiyuki Koinuma "Untitled"

Yoshiyuki Koinuma "Untitled"

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At Gallery Terra Tokyo
Media: Painting, Art Party

Koinuma's thickly-daubed oil paintings are inspired by focal incidents in contemporary society that have stirred up controversy in recent years. His works are rendered in dark colors with unusually bright highlights in certain portions of the canvas, provoking a sense of pain and disillusionment in the viewer, and creating an overall sense of unease. Koinuma's work is remarkable for channeling the deaths of others in incidents seemingly unrelated to oneself, drawing them uncomfortably near and rendering them somewhat familiar and impossible to ignore, stirring up inner emotions such as terror, agony and hopelessness. Also depicted is the irremediable sense of being unable to recover what has been lost felt by the perpetrator of the incident, an awareness of unpardonable wrong, an awareness that is paradoxically connected to an intense and renewed awareness of life precisely through that brush with death. The fact that any pronounced sense of danger is felt to be lacking in these works is testament to Koinuma's gift for depicting the flipside of the equation, an enhanced appreciation of life.

Opening Reception: June 21st (Sat) 17:00-19:00