YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce Slow Sculpture, its first solo exhibition by Nobuhiro Shimura from June 8 to July 6.

Nobuhiro Shimura, who has made the act of “casting light” a personal theme, has previously shown installation of video projection. This installation consists of live images of familiar motifs and landscape projected on to particular places and materials, transforming the meaning of the space in which the work has been installed. Such works have been displayed in international festivals and exhibitions including the Aichi Triennial 2010, Aichi, and Experimenta, Melbourne, 2012. He has also been showing projects outdoors which invite audiences to experience light such as "Red Shows", a projected red shoes image on a alley in Yokohama, and "ribbon", projected on a canopy in a shipping avenue. Also, works such as "pierce", projected on to the heads of 330,000 pins stuck onto a tatami straw mat in a Japanese restaurant, and "bucket garden" projected on to the surface of water in a bucket, demonstrate that his work has been developed in various ways regarding its scale and site. The common theme of his works is memory and time, expressed by the ensemble relationship of image and screen.

The title of this exhibition "Slow Sculpture" is the artist's intention, as he states, to " want to create sculpture like an afterimage", which expresses his attitude as an artist who handles moving images, a medium without a concept of haptic sense, as his material. In this exhibition, he will show a new installation using wax and stones that he [grows interest] grew interested in through participating in AIR in Akiyoshidai International Art Vilage, Yamaguchi, from January to March, 2013.

Born in Tokyo in 1982; graduated from the Musashino Art University with a Master's degree in Imaging Arts and Sciences. Selected solo exhibitions include: "Ukabe" Yokohama Art Museum Grand Gallery, Yokohama (2009), "Swing" Sakshi Gallery Art Salon, Taipei (2010), "Dress" TRAUMARIS｜SPACE, Tokyo　(2012). Group exhibitions including: "Aichi Triennial 2010", Nagoya (2010), "Experimenta" Melborune (2012), "The Land of Secrets" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (2012), "The Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum Collection: on this planet" Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka (2013).