Flower.
It is generically recognized as the symbol of the beauty and the season. People paint or take a picture of the flower, which has a kind of healing, in order to keep its beauty forever.

The flower that Takeshi Nagase paints with an airbrush is so realistic that the viewer often mistakes it for a photograph. Patel and also vein are expressed minutely and the detail which we cannot notice by the naked eye is finely. But obvious difference between his works and a photograph is that Nagase doesn’t cut out a moment. Flower in his work make us feel a kind of fragility and we can have a premonition that transparent bud, which is composed of many layers of color, will bloom. In other words, flowers painted by Nagase have a sense of existence as being and dynamism for expanding toward the sky.

My creation’s keystone is to include various artifice based on accurate and fine sense of painting with keeping the photographical image. I think that the work completed after that method become a painting that contains a new “quality” which the photograph has not.

Nagase express his own world which is delicate and has an inner fortitude thought last exhibition composed of face, landscape and flower works. In this time, we will exhibit only flower works. Something which is photographic but we cannot see in photograph. Please see the beauty of the flower only there appear for the first time through the filter named Takeshi Nagase.

* The text provided by YOKOI FINE ART.

Opened dates: October 8 - 23, 2010