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Masato Kobayashi "Love more awful! and more beautiful because painting is all for love, spring 2012"
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Masato Kobayashi
ShugoArts is pleased to present "LOVE more awful! And more beautiful because painting is all for love, Spring 2012." At his most recent solo show at ShugoArts in 2010, Kobayashi added a new dimension to his paintings, by explaining that each had an absent pair, to which it was deeply though inexplicably connected. In this exhibition, he takes the process forward a further step, so that each painting is connected not just to one other painting, but several.
Kobayashi says that "More awful paintings!" is "like an incantation for the purpose of making more beautiful paintings." A person living on canvas, the weaving lady, the lady who loves green, the naked lady in yellow, the lady who has had paint thrown on her... Recording improvised acts, they are clad in many colors, and, as though they have stored up as much love as possible, they possess a rich and luxurious aspect. The relations between the paintings – their connections – are much freer, and at the same time the individual paintings are more brilliant than ever.
Kobayashi tries to get closer and closer to truly beautiful paintings by trying to make them all the more "awful." And when we stand in front of them, we too will accept the love they emit, feel their beauty and attain a heightened sensibility as a result.
[Image: Masato Kobayashi, "This Planet's Model (Painter) #4" (2011) oil, acrylic, canvas, wood, 18×14×4cm]
Kobayashi says that "More awful paintings!" is "like an incantation for the purpose of making more beautiful paintings." A person living on canvas, the weaving lady, the lady who loves green, the naked lady in yellow, the lady who has had paint thrown on her... Recording improvised acts, they are clad in many colors, and, as though they have stored up as much love as possible, they possess a rich and luxurious aspect. The relations between the paintings – their connections – are much freer, and at the same time the individual paintings are more brilliant than ever.
Kobayashi tries to get closer and closer to truly beautiful paintings by trying to make them all the more "awful." And when we stand in front of them, we too will accept the love they emit, feel their beauty and attain a heightened sensibility as a result.
[Image: Masato Kobayashi, "This Planet's Model (Painter) #4" (2011) oil, acrylic, canvas, wood, 18×14×4cm]
Schedule | Mar 17 (Sat) 2012-Apr 28 (Sat) 2012 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Shugoarts http://www.shugoarts.com/  | ||||
| Location | 2F Complex665, 6-5-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 1b at Roppongi Station on the Hbiya or Toei Oedo line, 8 minute walk from exit 7 at Azabu-juban Station on the Nanboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6447-2234 | ||||
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