Chu Enoki "Pumice"

Gallery Nomart

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Artists

Chu Enoki

From the 1970s to the present, Kobe-based artist Chu Enoki has been engaged in unique and socially impactful activities, including unconventional performances using his body, using guns, cannons, and other weapons as subjects, and breathing new life into scrap metal to create works of art. His foresight, sincerity in expression, and extraordinary energy with which he creates his work has captivated many people of all ages and regions with surprise and admiration.

This will be his first solo exhibition at Nomart after 16 years since "Everyday Life/Art" was held in 2006. While the previous exhibition was a commemorative show for the publication of Enoki's first book, " Everyday Life/Art: Enoki Chu," and was intended to summarize Enoki's activities up to that point, this exhibition will be a completely new show that will showcase "Enoki Chu as of 2022.

The project began last fall with the restoration of Enoki's fighter plane drawings from the 1970s using Nomart's silkscreening technology. Enoki's imagination was also sparked by the then-popular story of pumice ejected from undersea volcanoes and washed up on beaches around Japan, and "pumice" became one of the motifs for the exhibition.

In the exhibition, a large number of silkscreen prints created in collaboration with Nomart will fill the exhibition space, creating Enoki's magnificent world. The overwhelming enthusiasm of Enoki's creativity, which shows no sign of waning while he continues to take on new challenges, his strong message, which is akin to anger, and his foresight, which seems to foresee the current social situation, will allow visitors to experience firsthand "Chu Enoki is here to stay”.

Schedule

Aug 27 (Sat) 2022-Sep 24 (Sat) 2022