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Keisuke Shirota Exhibition
Base Gallery
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Keisuke Shirota
Base Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition featuring new works by Keisuke Shirota.
Compared with his past two shows, Shirota's technique here of arbitrarily selecting a landscape, arranging an unfocused photograph onto his canvas and filling it the surrounding area with black and white paint has remained the same. Shirota's expressive power lies in the gap that intervenes between the fierce clash between the power of photography to convey a sense of verisimilitude and painting's ability to harness imaginary depictions. These iterations of paintings and photographs are perhaps a representation of our existence and outlook on life in how they fuse a certain surrender to media with the humanity of painting.
Since his solo exhibition in Cologne in 2008, Base Gallery and Grambooks, looking back on his past works, have been working on his catalogue raisonne, and it will be published during the exhibition.
[Image: "Another Day #20" (2009) Two panels, overall 116.7 x 160.6 cm, acrylic, photograph / canvas]
Compared with his past two shows, Shirota's technique here of arbitrarily selecting a landscape, arranging an unfocused photograph onto his canvas and filling it the surrounding area with black and white paint has remained the same. Shirota's expressive power lies in the gap that intervenes between the fierce clash between the power of photography to convey a sense of verisimilitude and painting's ability to harness imaginary depictions. These iterations of paintings and photographs are perhaps a representation of our existence and outlook on life in how they fuse a certain surrender to media with the humanity of painting.
Since his solo exhibition in Cologne in 2008, Base Gallery and Grambooks, looking back on his past works, have been working on his catalogue raisonne, and it will be published during the exhibition.
[Image: "Another Day #20" (2009) Two panels, overall 116.7 x 160.6 cm, acrylic, photograph / canvas]
Schedule | Sep 28 (Mon) 2009-Oct 31 (Sat) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 28 (Mon) 2009 18:00 - 00:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Base Gallery http://www.basegallery.com  | ||||
| Location | 1F Koura Daiichi Bldg., 1-1-6, Nihombashi Kayabacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exits 7 or 8 at Kayabacho Station on the Tozai and Hibiya lines, 5 minute walk from exit D2 at Nihombashi Station on the Tozai or Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5623-6655 | ||||
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