Toru Kuwakubo
19 Jul - 10 Aug 2008
TORU KUWAKUBO
"World Citizens with the White Boxes"
Toru Kuwakubo has started his career as an artist in a theatrical manner, that is to invent in himself a fictitious painter. He tried to play a role, how a proper painter should act like, in the way he imagined; like painting on the seashore using an easel as the Impressionists; performing to bind a painting on his back as a vagabond painter trying to sell his painting on the road. What he, as an acted artist, often painted was the sea.
The painting style to mount thick layer of paint, without mixing thinning oil, obviously reminds one of Van Gogh painting rather than a contemporary art piece. So the work is a result of the Impressionist technique that is on its way to be called a classic, and the present mindscape of the artist's put together in one. His earlier paintings owe to his imaginary story, like people on the beach digging a hole. There is one of a flower floating on the surface of the ocean painted in romanticism. Recently he focuses more on the form and color of the motif, in a painting with objects laid out on the beach as if everything in his mind was displayed.
"World Citizens with the White Boxes"
Toru Kuwakubo has started his career as an artist in a theatrical manner, that is to invent in himself a fictitious painter. He tried to play a role, how a proper painter should act like, in the way he imagined; like painting on the seashore using an easel as the Impressionists; performing to bind a painting on his back as a vagabond painter trying to sell his painting on the road. What he, as an acted artist, often painted was the sea.
The painting style to mount thick layer of paint, without mixing thinning oil, obviously reminds one of Van Gogh painting rather than a contemporary art piece. So the work is a result of the Impressionist technique that is on its way to be called a classic, and the present mindscape of the artist's put together in one. His earlier paintings owe to his imaginary story, like people on the beach digging a hole. There is one of a flower floating on the surface of the ocean painted in romanticism. Recently he focuses more on the form and color of the motif, in a painting with objects laid out on the beach as if everything in his mind was displayed.