U N I T E D K I N G D O M
Tomorrow’s Bridge
01 / 01 / 2021
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30 / 01 / 2021
Dexer Wimberly and the Hayama Arts Residency for a new Exhibition in Partnership with KOKI ARTS
3D Immersive Online Exhibition
"TOMORROW'S BRIDGE"
会場：Oarbt
会期：2021年1月1日(金) – 1月30日(土)
場所：Oarbt
主催：Oarbt
協力：HAYAMA ARTS RESIDENCY, KOKI ARTS
キュレーション：Dexter Wimberly
出品作家：
中屋敷智生 / Tomonari Nakayashiki
概要
Oarbtのデジタルプラットフォームを通して、インディペンデントキュレーターのDexter WimberlyとHayama Arts Residency、KOKI ARTS（東京）とのコラボレーションによるオンライン展覧会 "Tomorrow's Bridge" 「中村亮一（東京）、倉田裕也（ブルックリン）、中屋敷智生（京都）展」を開催いたします。
"TOMORROW'S BRIDGE"
Dates: January 1(Fri)~ January 30(Sat)
Location: Oarbt 3D Immersive Exhibition
Web: http://www.oarbt.com
Oarbt is delighted to announce our collaboration with Dexter Wimberly and the Hayama Arts Residency for a new exhibition of work by Ryoichi Nakamura (Tokyo), Hiroya Kurata (Brooklyn), and Tomonari Nakayashiki (Kyoto) in partnership with KOKI ARTS.
This New Year, Wimberly has curated an exhibition for the inaugural Hayama Arts Residency which is opening on Jan 1 exclusively on Oarbt. The exhibition is a collaboration between with KOKI ARTS and was founded by Wimberly to introduce visual artists from around the world to Japanese culture and offer them an exhibition opportunity in Japan.
US-based Kurata’s playful and — in Wimberly’s words — “subtle and whimsical” paintings seem as good a place to dive into the exhibition as any. Known for his breakout work depicting almost cartoonish, surreal baseball figures, Kurata’s exhibiting pieces, including the ‘Batwalk paintings’, engage with their off-beat portrayal of everyday people and settings, using either acrylic or oil on canvas and linen. Whether it’s a house with a roof that is taking off in flight, roads that flow like rivers, or slightly out-of-proportion limbs, these are ordinary scenes given an extra-ordinary quality thanks to a sense of humour and a deftness of touch.
Following Kurata’s work with the “sombre, deep and contemplative” style of Tokyo painter Nakamura is especially jarring. The impactful images — hundreds of portraits, including oil and yarn on canvas, copper and aluminium, featuring eyes or entire faces altered, smudged, blurred or almost erased with blasts of colour, are an atmospheric and unsettling ‘study of identity’, which intrigues with hints of the stories and secrets behind them.
Completing the trio is the abstract work of Nakayashiki, who Wimberly believes provides an “interesting juxtaposition” to his contemporaries. Focusing, as per his artist statement, on “rendering perception, structure, substance and light in their pure state” the Osaka-born artist’s work intends to create a “space (or room) where the viewer can breathe freely”. Observing the strokes, shapes, textures and flurry of colours — bold blues, earthy greens, turquoises and bright yellows among them — Nakayashiki’s work grasps attention easily and holds it with an almost meditative quality.
Read more about in his vision for the Hayama Arts Residency and the upcoming exhibition 'Tomorrow's Bridge' now at www.oarbt.com.