Rockn’Roll?
©Taichi Nakamura
Main Gallery Area Artist
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©Taichi Nakamura
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©Taichi Nakamura
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©Taichi Nakamura
Artist Information
Photo by Keita Aikawa, ©Taichi Nakamura
Taichi Nakamura
1982 Born in Kanagawa
2008 Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Fine Arts
2016 “Paintings & Paperworks” HARMAS GALLERY (Tokyo,Japan)
2016 “Fujinoyama biennale 2016” Ikeda building (Shizuoka,Japan)
2017 “Under the sky if nowhere” AYUMI GALLERY CAVE (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “odd number” HARMAS GALLERY (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 “Project N73”Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (Tokyo,Japan)
European rabbits, which I own, are naturally covered in a lot of fur, and live in certain places on Earth, mainly inhabiting areas like plateaus. By all rights, they exist within the course of a complete ecosystem, so to speak. What about humans? They wear clothing, and are weak to both heat and cold. Humans are irregular and odd because they have prospered even as they broke the formula of the ecosystem. I feel love for such being of humanity, and I believe in its ability to continue to exist somehow from now on. If humans are the equation that’s deviated from natural providence, I want to fix my eyes on this landscape where humans are.
[Comment by Selector]
Once, at an art school, I worked with the artist Taichi Nakamura on his solo exhibition. When I first saw his work I was impressed by his unique painting style and his raw, vivid energy. The brush strokes and textures of the material remain in his paintings, which gives them a sense of freshness at each viewing. The impressions I get from his paintings are at times geniality, at others wit, and still others even a reality that we want to turn our eyes from – all quite difficult to sum up in a word. Nakamura accepts the environment and situations surrounding him and applies them directly to his drawing, which seems to me to be an act of extreme purity. Strangely, in the hands of Nakamura, various scenes feel like poetic stories, and the mysterious motifs and perception of the world that appear on his canvases resemble a modern landscape that is simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar. I am excited to see further growth from Nakamura, who is currently based in Australia where he is inspired by new sights everyday.