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Minoru Inoue Exhibition
Walls Tokyo
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Minoru Inoue
Minoru Inoue was born in 1970. He entered the painting department of Tokyo Zokei University and left after one year. He went to France to study painting with the aim of mastering it.
After returning to Japan, he began to work on his paintings with a strong awareness of "contemporary art," a term that was being debated at the time as new forms of expression emerged one after another, but it was, in his own words, "something I didn't really feel like I was painting my own pictures.
In the year 2000, he felt that he had reached a turning point in his career, and decided to give up "being a contemporary artist," which had become a kind of half obsession, and to paint what he wanted to paint, the way he wanted to paint it. His work since then has become one in which he thoroughly eliminates the artifice of "making pictures," even though he finds challenges in the process of creation and earnestly works to overcome them. He paints only the act of "painting" the roadside grass and weeds that he has snapped pictures of, and he does not make any corrections or adjustments to the overall image.
His paintings created in this way have an unobtrusive impression but an unobtainable core strength.
In these days when there is so much discussion about de-anthropocentrism and post-humanocene art, it is interesting and even exciting to see how Inoue has somehow found his way into "contemporary art," which he had tried so hard, only to be pushed back and eventually discarded.
This exhibition will feature a selection of Minoru Inoue's works currently on view on the Walls Tokyo website.
After returning to Japan, he began to work on his paintings with a strong awareness of "contemporary art," a term that was being debated at the time as new forms of expression emerged one after another, but it was, in his own words, "something I didn't really feel like I was painting my own pictures.
In the year 2000, he felt that he had reached a turning point in his career, and decided to give up "being a contemporary artist," which had become a kind of half obsession, and to paint what he wanted to paint, the way he wanted to paint it. His work since then has become one in which he thoroughly eliminates the artifice of "making pictures," even though he finds challenges in the process of creation and earnestly works to overcome them. He paints only the act of "painting" the roadside grass and weeds that he has snapped pictures of, and he does not make any corrections or adjustments to the overall image.
His paintings created in this way have an unobtrusive impression but an unobtainable core strength.
In these days when there is so much discussion about de-anthropocentrism and post-humanocene art, it is interesting and even exciting to see how Inoue has somehow found his way into "contemporary art," which he had tried so hard, only to be pushed back and eventually discarded.
This exhibition will feature a selection of Minoru Inoue's works currently on view on the Walls Tokyo website.
Schedule | Nov 16 (Thu) 2023-Dec 2 (Sat) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.walls-tokyo.com/exhibition/exhibition.php?no=69 | ||||
| Venue | Walls Tokyo https://www.walls-tokyo.com/ | ||||
| Location | 6-2-41 Yanaka, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0001 | ||||
| Access | 10 minute walk from exit 1 at Nezu Station on the Chiyoda line. 10 minute walk from Nippori Station on the JR Joban, Yamanote and Keihin Tohoku lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6455-3559 | ||||
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