Tea ceremony on lakeside
Photo by Kiyotoshi Takashima
※Photos are for reference only.
Main Gallery Area Artist
The day which became an owl
Photo by Kiyotoshi Takashima
※Photos are for reference only.
It tell me that the top will not stop
Photo by Kiyotoshi Takashima
※Photos are for reference only.
Artist Information
Taishi Nishi
1983 Born in Osaka
2015 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts,M.F.A.,Oil Painting
2017 "KCUA Transmit Program 2017" Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA (Kyoto,Japan)
2017-2018 "Taishi Nishi + Yosuke Yano -Thorn of Comfort-" 8/ ART GALLERY/ Tomio Koyama Gallery (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 "Curse and Celebrate" KUNST ARZT (Kyoto,Japan)
2018 "NIGHT SEA JOURNEY" GALLERY ZERO (Osaka,Japan)
I am exploring the boundary between painting and reality, the place where fiction and reality exist together, the things that are opaque and mysterious, and the relationship between images and materiality.
Selector
Producer/Professor, Osaka Electro-communication University
[Comment by Selector]
The charcoal strokes on the canvas are rough, yet at the same time delicate. Taishi Nishi creates work as though grabbing the darkness of the night. There is no need to mention the oppressiveness of his darkness, but its charm resides in the glimpse of positivity it offers. His ambivalent work is not just shown in two dimensions, but also incorporates three-dimensional elements. Darkness elicits a sense of mysterious fear to others, yet when Nishi connects the figures he pulls out of the darkness on his canvases with his three-dimensional work, a unique atmosphere begins to emerge, developing a strange aura in the space.