"Nora" Nanao Motoe April 2013, 4 - May 30, 2013
Venue: Art Gallery T+
Date: April 2013, 4 (Tuesday) - May 30, 2013 (Thursday)
Exhibitor: Motoe Nao (2nd year master's student in the Sculpture area of Process Arts)
I'm planning to exhibit paintings of plants and wooden carvings of tuna. It will be for three days, but I would be very happy if you could come! Thank you!
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A scene unfolded before me that seemed delicate yet was straightforward.
Was it precisely drawn? No, the boundaries between precise and intricate are unclear, and yet the somewhat mysterious picture and the sudden appearance of the tuna caught my eye, and I felt I was struck.
This flower, this tree, this building... I feel like I've seen them before, but maybe not... I've traced my memory, but I can't remember clearly. It's strange. It's strange. That's the only way I can describe it, and I'm at my wit's end.
But has this tuna ever been alive? Surrounded by strange paintings, it has an eerie presence, and its gaze seems to say, "Please cut me up," but it won't meet your eyes. I felt uneasy in the exhibition space, where the exhibitor's obsessive gaze was realistic, and the artworks and the exhibition space coexisted in a relaxed atmosphere. But even in the midst of this instability, there was still a warmth that comes from knowing they were made by humans. When I felt that, I was reminded of a nostalgic poem that goes, "Everyone is different, everyone is good."
The works that coexist in this mysterious space are all different. And yet, I felt that they were part of a larger flow, I don't know how to describe it, but perhaps it was the medium known as the exhibitor. (Ota Natsuki)
