Nobuya HOKI |
Events |
Written by KALONSNET Editor |
Published: March 15 2010 |
”Untitled" (2010); acrylic on paper, 76.5 x 108 cm, courtesy of the artist and Taka Ishii Gallery copy right(c) Nobuya HOKI Born in 1966, a graduate from the Kyoto City University of Arts (MFA, painting), Hoki lives and works in Kyoto. He has been included in numerous international exhibitions including Roppongi Crossing: New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, and GARDEN OF PAINTING: Japanese Art of the 00s, The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2010). In April of this year, he is scheduled to exhibit at the Suntory Museum in Osaka as part of the exhibition, Resonance. This is Hoki’s second solo exhibition following his 2008 show at the newly opened, Taka Ishii Gallery Kyoto space. In this forthcoming exhibition, he will be presenting oil-painted works on panels, alongside two series of drawings; a portrait which attempts to perceive a new “surface” for the human face, and what the artist himself refers to as “Ji-matagi” (lit., “Material (Color) Strides”), a “Nihon-ga” piece in which he constructs two lines –one more and one less luminous in contrast to the original color of the Material (paper). By dividing one color into two complementary colors (for example, Black into Red and Blue) and allowing those lines to travel side by side in a subtle trajectory, Hoki creates a radical three-dimensional portrayal of depth, “a multi-stratifying of single layers” and seeks a new potential for painting which is free from a traditional approach. * The text provided by Taka Ishii Gallery. |
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