Goro Murayama

 

1983 Born in Tokyo

2015 Tokyo University of the Arts, Ph.D., Oil Painting

2009 “MOT Collection / MOT, Field of Dreams” Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan.

2010 Solo show -Shiseido art egg vol.4 “The re-enchantment of painting system” Shiseido gallery, Tokyo

2013 “Generating Visuals – Inspiring Circuits” Takuro Someya Contemporary Art Kashiwa, Chiba

2016 Solo show “Simulational Poiesis” Spektakel(Vienna)

2017 Solo show “Disenchanting the Image in Order to Sit down and Look” G/P Gallery(Tokyo)

 

Goro Murayama (1983-) is an artist that expresses self-organizing processes and patterns through painting and drawings. He is particularly devoted to the fundamental theory of life systems, namely autopoiesis, and the diverse life-like patterns that are implemented in computer simulated cell automata. His works gradually grow in structure as he undergoes the process of weaving a canvas from hemp cords, painting the base, and administering drawings on top. In other words, the production process based on composing successive elements while being stimulated from elements that were previously generated, takes shape as the structure of the work. With the acquirement of variables latent in the production, the potential developments are further opened, resulting in the works becoming increasingly complex in structure in recent years. This has particularly been the case with the introduction of asynchronicity, whereby processes do not proceed synchronously, but rather are arbitrarily or randomly selected to proceed, as if branches of a tree structure grew in an uncoordinated fashion. Murayama’s works thus attain a unique expression by introducing self-organizing processes within them. For Murayama painting is a mandala of emergences that appears when the mind, affected by forms and shapes, reiterates and amasses acts.