Nana Funo & Yutaka Watanabe
21 Jun - 12 Jul 2008
NAN FUNO & YUTAKA WATANABE
Nana Funo paints in restrained colors the sensitive motifs that are unique to young girls. Her repertoire includes images such as hooked needle crochet lace patterns, or a pattern of plants on an embroidery frame like round surface painted with dyestuff, gesso and acrylic paint layered to create a distinctive matiere.
She has also worked on a series of traveling images, depicting symbolic architecture and scenery from various countries painted in relief-like texture.
Yutaka Watanabe paints a landscape in strange composition that mixed the interior and exterior of a house. In his series called the “ark” that implies the retreat, plants and furniture are mixed and are bent in squares, repeatedly having silent dialogue in front of a backdrop like house or inside the house.
The combination of this coloration and motif reminds one of the Futurist paintings.
Nana Funo paints in restrained colors the sensitive motifs that are unique to young girls. Her repertoire includes images such as hooked needle crochet lace patterns, or a pattern of plants on an embroidery frame like round surface painted with dyestuff, gesso and acrylic paint layered to create a distinctive matiere.
She has also worked on a series of traveling images, depicting symbolic architecture and scenery from various countries painted in relief-like texture.
Yutaka Watanabe paints a landscape in strange composition that mixed the interior and exterior of a house. In his series called the “ark” that implies the retreat, plants and furniture are mixed and are bent in squares, repeatedly having silent dialogue in front of a backdrop like house or inside the house.
The combination of this coloration and motif reminds one of the Futurist paintings.