Curator Statement

Mediaselect programme

October 22 – November 3, Nagoya Citizens’ Gallery Yada

This exhibition consists of mostly paintings, some photography, and video works by 10 artists. The respective works have conventional themes for painting like remembrance, visual perception with light and narrative, to the style of dramatic scenes, landscape, portrait, and still life. On the other hand, artists also try to use various materials, techniques, and space composition to sever conventional styles and contexts of painting as they were after pop art and minimalism because of the existence of photography as a popular expression.
We have the tacit question that asks if the world we are looking at has authenticity, prepared for our information oriented society, in which time is edited and remote controlled in moving images? Painting can still be “immortal” by taking the point of view of moving images because, it repetitively creates a universal value. Here you meet the scene of the most thrilling speculation for our visual sensation which is about to fall into frivolity.

Artists:
Nobuyuki Osaki, Shigeo Ogawa, Yutaka Koyanagi, Mika Kunieda, Tamami Kubota, Kohei Takahashi, Yoko Toma, Takeshi Masada, Keiko Miyaji, Katsuhiro Yamada
Co-organizer: Center for Art, Seian University of Art and Design
Curator: Hiroyuki Nagao

• Hiroyuki Nagao, Artist, Seian University of Art and Design, Japan