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Masumi Nakaoka
This first solo exhibition by Masumi Nakaoka at Art Front Gallery in two years focuses on unpublished work created after her year-long stay at Chiang Mai University as Special Lecturer from October 2015. In her earlier work Nakaoka photographed routine scenes from daily life and rendered them in various media, such as resin-based pigment. She employed raised white outlines with blurred colors in the margins between, using this to express her world view, which can be understood as the coming and going of abstraction and representation. Nakaoka set herself no specific goal while in Chiang Mai, and instead embarked on dramatically new experiments. For example, she took off-the-shelf, locally obtained objects, such as buckets or textiles, and used them as her base materials. In this way she used materiality to eloquently communicate the atmosphere of where she was living. Nakaoka says she was impressed by the Thai mode of production, which had little apparent concern for efficiency. The idea of not necessarily taking the shortest or most efficient is something not often seen in Japan, hence Nakaoka found the conception very interesting and was stimulated to explore it in her own work.
It is not difficult to imagine how the Thai way of dismantling and regenerating objects, with its apparent disregard for efficiency, appealed to Nakaoka. After all, she has long been creating work by disassembling photographic information into outlines, then reassembling it in a new visual value, using vivid colors and varying external materials. In Chiang Mai, materials are restricted, but there is a sense of agility. It is as if whatever can be made with one brush, with a sense of locality is adequate for the here and now. Moving away from her previous photograph-based production, she introduced a sketching method using a so-called Durer glass, that is, a pane for generating precise perspective. Enjoy Nakaoka’s new work where she has rethought how representation and abstraction, perspective and flatness, outline and depth, can fuse together and co-exist.
It is not difficult to imagine how the Thai way of dismantling and regenerating objects, with its apparent disregard for efficiency, appealed to Nakaoka. After all, she has long been creating work by disassembling photographic information into outlines, then reassembling it in a new visual value, using vivid colors and varying external materials. In Chiang Mai, materials are restricted, but there is a sense of agility. It is as if whatever can be made with one brush, with a sense of locality is adequate for the here and now. Moving away from her previous photograph-based production, she introduced a sketching method using a so-called Durer glass, that is, a pane for generating precise perspective. Enjoy Nakaoka’s new work where she has rethought how representation and abstraction, perspective and flatness, outline and depth, can fuse together and co-exist.
Schedule | Mar 10 (Fri) 2017-Apr 2 (Sun) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://artfrontgallery.com/en/exhibition/archive/2017_03/3234.html | ||||
| Venue | Art Front Gallery http://www.artfrontgallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line, 11 minute walk from the West exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines, 8 minute walk from exit 4 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3476-4869 | ||||
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