TAIHO UNYU Prize Yuki Takai Prize Go Nakagawa Prize
Silver Prize
Asato Prize
Yasuo Nomura was born in Masuda-city, Shimane in 1979.
He graduated from Musashino Art University, Department of Oil Painting in 2004.
Nomura recaptures themes of science, religion, and art as primal, universal acts throughout human history and proposes an essential "standard of beauty" that can be contemporarily adapted from the perspective of art. Recent methods involve disassembling scientific works by the great masters, a series in support of re-interpretation, the assemblage of conflicting phenomenon through interactive installation, and yet-to-be-solved prime numbers theorized via mathematics.
Major solo exhibitions include "Paradigm Equinox" (2014/Shinjuku Ganka Gallery/Tokyo), "Re: Vitruvian Man" (2014/H.P.FRANCE WINDOW GALLERY/Tokyo), "Forest of Prime" (2014/momurag/Kyoto).
I can't help but suspect that the 19th century discovery of non-Euclidean geometry and the rapid scientific leap that followed was influenced by the arts of the time; a background in which paintings reflected an impasse of conceptual progress. If the collective knowledge that tows modern society were to have been brought about by such a drastic leap, would not now be the time to embark into new fields, redefining what a painting could be?
If paintings were originally a means of understanding, digesting the three-dimensional space around us into a two-dimensional plane, I want to attempt to restructure painting theory by introducing concepts of modern science, developed on the assumption of high-dimensional space.