TAB Event - Hiroshi Yoshida "Worlds"

Hiroshi Yoshida "Worlds"

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At Waitingroom
Media: Painting

Born in Kyoto in 1988, Yoshida is currently majoring in painting at the Kanazawa College of Art, and is based in Kanazawa and Tokyo. Most recently, he exhibited "Seashore" at Shinjuku Art Infinity held from November 2008 through March 2009. A subdued palette and fantastical images are characteristic of his work, generating a sensation of floating back and forth between reality and dream.

"I think it's easy to cross between reality and imagination and mix them up: imagination is a synthesis of memories that dwell inside yourself. The act of remaking a memory by depending on reality and remaking reality by depending on a memory are almost the same thing. A human being interprets the reality of the moment by using his or her imagination, which could be highly subjective. What I'd like to paint is not an imaginary world but the possibility of reality." -Hiroshi Yoshida

Yoshida's new painting "Snowfield" depicts stylized trees and a small figure wandering about. Both familiar and unfamiliar, his pictorial surface, built out of his own memories and imagination, gives material form to a landscape lying on the boundary between fantasy and reality as "one of the possibilities of reality".

The works on display by this young promising artist tap into the viewer's own memories. His painterly "worlds" offer us an opportunity to reexamine the importance of the imagination, often forgotten in these chaotic times.

[Image: "Snowfield" (2009) acrylic on MDF board 56 x 40cm]