."VOILLDIse Kasuga, who presided over the event, said,this way (direction close to the speaker or towards the speaker)She has started a huinamu blog at . Earthbound Abe," a new solo exhibition by painter Yusuke Abe, which she is currently setting up in the after-effects of Fuji Rock.
. The following is a quote from the artist's commentary by Mr. Ise.
Yusuke Abe is a Yamagata-born, Tokyo-based painter. Abe's works are composed around oil and spray paintings, and utilize a variety of materials such as colored paper, colored film, and plastic.
The artist's work is a sampling of his childhood memories of playing outside in the great outdoors, playing video games and card games, and unconsciously leaving doodles in the corners of notebooks and textbooks, expressing complex emotions such as fun and emptiness hidden in nostalgia from a unique perspective. The seemingly childish and simplistic motifs are the antithesis of the painting genre.
They are all memories of Abe's own experiences, elements that have made him who he is today, and also important parts of his hopes for the future. The sense of reality and idol, of space and time mixed together without reality, is painted over and over, erased and painted over again, becoming layers like a hazy dream that draws the viewer into a strange sensation.
In this solo exhibition, the artist's series of paintings of giant mazes, which he has continued to produce in recent years, will take center stage. The paintings are a collection of countless lines drawn with an overwhelming vitality, as if to express his doubts and impulses about the act of "painting. When Abe's mind was filled with the experience of exploring, struggling, and having fun, the maze emerged as a complete work of art.
Perhaps drawing the maze is a return to our true selves and an adventure into a new world, and the maze is a challenge, as if testing us to see if we can lead the way to the answer.
It is very difficult to generalize and explain something as abstract as art without losing its appeal. This commentary makes it clear that the gallery "Boiled" has a sincere and appropriate attitude toward art and the people who receive it.
About 30 new paintings, large and small, will be exhibited at the venue, so please come and see them. There will also be original goods available only at the venue. The exhibition will be held from August 4 (Fri.) to August 27 (Sun.) , so be sure to pay attention.
Text_Taiyo Nagashima
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Yusuke Abe "Earthbound Abe
Dates: Friday, August 4 - Sunday, August 27
Venue: VOILLD
Address: Casa Aobadai B1F, 3-18-10 Aobadai, Meguro-ku, Tokyo
Hours: Wed-Thu-Fri 14:00-20:00｜Sat-Sun 12:00-18:00 *Closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and national holidays
Admission: Free
Opening reception: August 4, ( Fri. ) 18:00-21:00
www.voilld.com/post/162784558479/yusukeabe2017
Yusuke Abe
. Born in Yamagata Prefecture in 1993. . Currently enrolled in the second year of a master's program at Tama Art University.
Sampling the games, cards, and doodles in the corner of notebooks that were familiar to me as a child, the fun lurks in the nostalgia,
. explores new paintings based on complex emotions such as emptiness.
-From Artist
. the meaning of "Earthbound Abe" is, as far as I'm concerned, a pretty romantic term.
I don't mean that you can't escape from the earth ... or that you have no imagination. For example, in the games I liked, things happen rooted in their own worlds, and the monsters in the cards are rooted in the world of the cards and live in it. A grasshopper in the grass is rooted in one small bush, and a fish in the river does not know the whole river, but lives rooted in the point where it lives. . In the same way, I often think that people live in units of people. It may be a common example, but an ant in a garden must not know what is outside the garden, and does not even realize that it is a garden. But that's just the way it is, I think.
I am sure that there must be possibilities within a painting, a painting-bound world, so to speak.
. and I find it still very strange and wonderful that I am interested in it.
I don't know when that mystery will be solved, but one thing I can say is that I am Earthbound, and that is the only situation.
