Masumi Nakaoka / view point
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Tuesday28 April - Sunday31 May 2009
It is sometimes said that Nakayama's works are 'sceneries' without being sceneries.
Irregular shapes, which do not directly suggest what they are, but maybe connected to something in our memery, are placed on a flat plane as to build up one picture we have never seen.
The artist takes a photograph of a scenery from her daily life, but does not dipict as it is.
She goes through the scenery over and over in order to recaputre the image for herself and adds colors on a canvas. Half transparent resin softly spreads on the color surface as it is tracing the rims of vivid acrylic and oil colors.
Depicted scenery loses the materialistic objectivity as the direct image are replaced with colors and medium. However the scenery still reappears in our mind as if they are linked to something in our memory.
We are never to see the same scenery the artist saw. But as we stand in front of the paintings and make imagination, we may come across to something we already saw, such as our familiar trees and mountains, buildings in cities. The sceneries in Nakaoka's paintings are completed when viewer link the depicted to what we have experienced before.
Irregular shapes, which do not directly suggest what they are, but maybe connected to something in our memery, are placed on a flat plane as to build up one picture we have never seen.
The artist takes a photograph of a scenery from her daily life, but does not dipict as it is.
She goes through the scenery over and over in order to recaputre the image for herself and adds colors on a canvas. Half transparent resin softly spreads on the color surface as it is tracing the rims of vivid acrylic and oil colors.
Depicted scenery loses the materialistic objectivity as the direct image are replaced with colors and medium. However the scenery still reappears in our mind as if they are linked to something in our memory.
We are never to see the same scenery the artist saw. But as we stand in front of the paintings and make imagination, we may come across to something we already saw, such as our familiar trees and mountains, buildings in cities. The sceneries in Nakaoka's paintings are completed when viewer link the depicted to what we have experienced before.
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Featured Artists
Masumi Nakaoka
In drawing, she takes a picure of the scenery and draws the scenery as it is but brandnew unformed silhouette by repeating images. Since such plane ground are replaced by colurs and the compositon of medium and therefore creatinig the motifs as fragments of memories with losing a sense of matter. Using resin paint and cashews, she composes unique plane works. Her recent residency in Thailand enlarges her challange with fresh motifs around the artist.