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[image: Yasuo Nomura "Noctis Labyrinthus" (2017) acrylic, silicone, marker and glitter on panel 987x1597mm]

Yasuo Nomura “Dimensionism”

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Yasuo Nomura

Einstein’s theory of relativity and Picasso’s cubism both demonstrated a revolution in art and science of the twentieth century. It was Henri Poincare’s book “Science and Hypothesis” that exerted a major influence on these two men as they opened the world up to a new epoch. The non-Euclidean geometry and four-dimensional space they explored offered a vision of this next era for a world facing major modernization. Marcel Duchamp’s work known as “The Large Glass” is another interesting example. His cubist approach to the depiction of time and movement here resulted in a four-dimensional work rooted in Poincaré’s description of the cutting of dimensions. The topology explained by Poincaré became an important foundation for scientific development thereafter. Such expertise is honored in Yasuo Nomura’s “art of dimension” paintings, which shed light on the work of his predecessors. He creates twenty-first century artworks that draw on connections between the fields of high dimensional physics and contemporary mathematics. In the topology of high dimensionality, fibration refers to how dimensions are delineated by one topological space being parameterized by another. In thinking about the two-dimensional nature of paintings, Nomura recalls the contour lines of maps. In this solo exhibition he develops his ideas and explores the expanding landscape of high dimensionality through elements such as coordinate system movement, rotation and layers.

Schedule

Apr 21 (Fri) 2017-Jun 18 (Sun) 2017