Masaya Chiba
29 Nov 2008 - 10 Jan 2009
MASAYA CHIBA
"Mitsukyo"
Nov. 29, Sat., 2008– Jan. 10, Sat., 2009
Closed on Mon., Sun. and holidays
"It is other people who experience any one of my paintings. For the most part, those experiences occur most naturally a few meters or a few dozen meters in front of where the painting is placed. I see myself as creating the entire zone where the painting can be experienced."
Masaya Chiba
Chiba says that in this exhibition, which he has named after the place he was born and raised, he wants to show his own approach to the act of painting. That approach is evident in works such as "Friendship," in which the field of flowers painted in between two clay statues - on canvas that is loose and folded - is made to represent the distance and the relationship between them. Then there are the reliefs depicting scenes of love that Chiba made in total darkness using only his imagination; they are presented on a background of sky. There is also the painting that Chiba has affixed to a specially made stand, thereby giving it a total height of over 2.5 meters and width of over 3.Unique of form and created through entirely original work processes, the paintings demonstrate Chiba's attitude towards painting. They are also all connected with the various events and emotions - which Chiba thinks of so importantly - that humans experience during ther lives.
Masaya Chiba was born in 1980 in Kanagawa. He graduated from the department of oil painting at Tama Art University in 2005. Major group exhibitions include "Four Artists Show" at ShugoArts (2006), "Fukutake House in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006", "ritual" at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (2007) and "Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s - From Takahashi Collection," which is currently touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo. This is Chiba's first solo exhibition.
"Mitsukyo"
Nov. 29, Sat., 2008– Jan. 10, Sat., 2009
Closed on Mon., Sun. and holidays
"It is other people who experience any one of my paintings. For the most part, those experiences occur most naturally a few meters or a few dozen meters in front of where the painting is placed. I see myself as creating the entire zone where the painting can be experienced."
Masaya Chiba
Chiba says that in this exhibition, which he has named after the place he was born and raised, he wants to show his own approach to the act of painting. That approach is evident in works such as "Friendship," in which the field of flowers painted in between two clay statues - on canvas that is loose and folded - is made to represent the distance and the relationship between them. Then there are the reliefs depicting scenes of love that Chiba made in total darkness using only his imagination; they are presented on a background of sky. There is also the painting that Chiba has affixed to a specially made stand, thereby giving it a total height of over 2.5 meters and width of over 3.Unique of form and created through entirely original work processes, the paintings demonstrate Chiba's attitude towards painting. They are also all connected with the various events and emotions - which Chiba thinks of so importantly - that humans experience during ther lives.
Masaya Chiba was born in 1980 in Kanagawa. He graduated from the department of oil painting at Tama Art University in 2005. Major group exhibitions include "Four Artists Show" at ShugoArts (2006), "Fukutake House in Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial 2006", "ritual" at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya (2007) and "Neoteny Japan: Contemporary Artists after 1990s - From Takahashi Collection," which is currently touring to Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo. This is Chiba's first solo exhibition.