Toru Kuwakubo
dal 16/10/2007 al 16/11/2007
Segnalato da
16/10/2007
Toru Kuwakubo
Bendixen Contemporary Art, Valby
Scenery of Tomorrow. His canvasses are covered with the rich texture of oil paint in a brilliant dabbling of small and large brushstrokes, making each and every stroke and color a clear and significant part of the painting's whole.
Scenery of Tomorrow
It is with great pleasure that bendixen contemporary art, in cooperation
with Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, welcomes you to the opening of an
exhibition of new works by the Japanese painter Toru Kuwakubo.
From a purely stylistic point of view, the thickly applied paint of Toru
Kuwakubo¹s works demonstrates his genuine pleasure in as well as mastery of
the impressionists¹ painterly technique. His canvasses are covered with the
rich texture of oil paint in a brilliant dabbling of small and large
brushstrokes, making each and every stroke and color a clear and significant
part of the painting¹s whole. Kuwakubo¹s love for the great impressionist
painters is, however, not just about surface or pure technique. His
paintings are just as much an evidence of the fact that the strength of art
lies in its sensibility, its ability to express a feeling, a moment in time
or an open narrative that gives rise to the spectator¹s own reflections. It
is often the beach, the sea or the sky that forms the background of
Kuwakubo¹s poetic stories.
But unlike post-impressionist painters, such as
Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, were there is a tension between the real
and the ideal, we find in Kuwakubo¹s poetic narrations an acceptance of the
fact that each and one of us construes our own reality at the crossroads
between past and present; a realisation that life itself is the equilibrium
between our ideals and the harsh facts of reality. Therefore the sometimes
pointed titles seem a surprising contrast to Kuwakubo¹s seemingly classical
paintings. In its own sensitive way the titles reveal an interest in the
political and social turbulence of the contemporary world.
Toru Kuwakubo (1978) was born in Kanazawa and lives and works in Tokyo,
Japan. In 2002 he graduated from Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan and has
since achieved wide recognition in the art world. He won first prize at the
public Tokyo Wonder Wall competition in 2002, which was sponsored by the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo. He became part of Tomio Koyama Gallery,
Tokyo in 2004 and has already had several solo shows in Japan, Korea,
Germany and now Denmark.
Bendixen Contemporary Art
Carl Jacobsen Vej 20 - Valby
Gallery opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 12 - 5 pm, Saturday 11- 2 pm.