Keisuke Yamamoto creates drawings, paintings, and wooden sculptures. His works consist of trees, plants, fungi, and small fairy-like dolls formed by organic lines joined to realize a single form. The divisions allow our eyes to freely wander over the flat surface, filled with colored spaces that resemble flowers and insects, serve as the sky, or an enormous forest that is home to hidden creatures. The sculptures also resemble items from a forest, allowing the impression to spread and pervade the gallery. All works compare beginning and now in complicated forms that melt together in an intimate motif. “Creating art involves wandering in a bottomless world. Having realized that, I must include that in my work,” Yamamoto said. True to his words the works include unseen aspects and exist as fragments of a world of uncertainty. The exhibition features new paintings and a wooden sculpture, some measuring nearly five-meters tall. It will consist of about thirty parts representing faces, plants or mysterious decorative patterns, dazzling the audience with mass looking like a wooden palace. The exhibition title rise relays his thoughts about the creative process; “One of the most important sense in my works is to rise. Sometimes it tangles and reflects each other, and then collapse; I manage to build it up but there must be some reaction. The more essential it is, the more difficult it is to rise.” ( Keisuke Yamamoto) Keisuke Yamamoto was born in Tokyo in 1979, where he currently based. He graduated from Tokyo Zokei University with a degree in sculpture in 2001, and he continued working at his alma mater as a researcher until 2003. His specialty is wood sculpture. He participated in the group exhibition Field of Dreams, held at the Tomio Koyama Gallery at the Project Room in 2004. His first solo exhibition at gallery was in 2005. He also plans to exhibit works in his second solo exhibition at Helene Nyborg Contemporary in Denmark next year twice. He participated in “VOCA 2008 The Vision of Contemporary Art” at The Ueno Royal Museum. * The text was provided by Tomio Koyama Gallery.