A Revolving Shape
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Main Gallery Area Artist
Five Hours
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Photo by Takeru Koroda, courtesy of Kyoto City University of Arts
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How My Eyes See in March
Photo by Takeru Koroda, courtesy of Kyoto City University of Arts
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Artist Information
Sayoko Kobayashi
1989 Born In Saitama
2017 PhD in Nihonga, Kyoto City University of Arts
2017 “Interim Show 2017” Kyoto City University of Arts (Kyoto,Japan)
2017 “4th Shoku Kyoto Nihonga shin-ten”Museum “Eki” Kyoto (Kyoto,Japan)
2017 “Kobe Design University Department of Arts and Crafts Exhibition” Gallery Serendip, Kobe Design University (Hyogo,Japan)
2017 “Contemporary Art House Gallery of the Youth Opening Memorial Group Exhibition”Contemporary Art House Nishijin (Kyoto,Japan)
2018 “KCUA Transmit Program 2018” Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA (Kyoto,Japan)
I think about the periods of time that must exist in daily life, which are neither eternal nor momentary. I want to replace the space of the canvas with the entire period of time it takes to paint one picture, bring it into a white cube, and present it as the phenomenon we call a painting. As I imagine living while crossing through these freely lined up bands of time when I paint a picture, I feel like I can see a bit into how time progresses that way.
Selector
Producer/Professor, Osaka Electro-communication University
[Comment by Selector]
Kobayashi has never ceased studying the materials of what is known as “Japanese painting” – such as pigments that have been used in Japan since long ago – and, while she regards their characteristics as important, she has also worked on the development of new expression. As suggested by the title of her PhD thesis, “A study on spatiality in two dimensions: the creation of a transparent painting space” (2016), the world expressed on the surface of her work is a ‘transparent painting space’. The figurative and abstract elements of her work create the world she wishes to express. It is not easy to enable viewers to experience this same world, but through her work she is able to do so.