■ART MEETS PEOPLE vol.027
Kentaro Hirano Nihonga Exhibition / 平野健太郎 日本画作品展
2018.7.20 FRI. - 8.26 SUN.
-現実と想像を浮遊する自然の美の世界-
平野健太郎の作品は、日本画と呼ばれる日本の伝統的な技法で作られています。岩絵具という、天然鉱石などからとれる顔料と膠を混ぜ、絹や和紙の上に何度も色を重ねていきます。
作家は葉の揺らぎや水面での風など、自然の中の「美」をテーマに作品を描いています。
彼自身、水や光、広い空間といった捉えがたいものに魅かれ続けていると言います。
存在するもの、実態のあるものより、その奥にあるもう一つの世界を捉えたいという気持ち、現実と想像の間を行き来しているようなそのシーンを彼は画面に落としこんでいきます。絹の表面と裏面に描くことで生まれる空間が、揺らぎや風などを見るものに感じさせてくれます。
■平野 健太郎 / Kentaro Hirano
1971年福岡県生まれ。2003 年武蔵野美術大学造形学部日本画科を卒業し、現在は東京を
拠点に制作活動を行っています。国内での数々の個展、グループ展などのほか、ベルギーやブラジルなど、海外での展示でも好評を博しています。
Born in Fukuoka in 1971. Graduated from Musashino Art University and majored in Nihonga of Art and Design in 2003. Currently Hirano lives and works in Tokyo, and has received good reviews in Japan and abroad such as Belgium and Brazil through numerous solo and group exhibitions.
His works are created by traditional Japanese painting technique of Nihonga.
It is a Japanese type of painting using crushed mineral pigments mixed with a natural liquid adhesive. He repeatedly applies its medium gently on top of silk or Japanese paper. Pursuing the "beauty" in nature, Hirano has painted fragments of leaves and ripples on the surface of water by gentle breeze. He has been fascinated by the elements of nature such as water, rays of light and vast space that is hard to capture.
There is an undercurrent world of thought and feeling that Hirano would like to seek desperately, rather than those that exist and reality. And also he tries to seize a scene moving between reality and imagination. Those that have emerged are truly what Hirano is eager to paint. The way he paints on both side of ethereal silk canvas creates illusional space and it makes the viewer feel as if there were fragment and breeze through the paint.