 Another Day #2, 2006 photograph, acrylic on canvas, 130.3 x 194 cm Keisuke Shirota Keisuke Shirota places a photograph on a picture plane. It is uncertain when or where the photograph was taken, but he paints it as if enlarging the surrounding area of the photograph. Not to mention, there are many affinitive but antagonistic issues between photography and painting in terms of representation. In between the photograph that he had taken before and the painting that he has painted, a scene that he can neither recall nor punctuate his memory appears. Even if we visit somewhere and see something, or touch, it might be such landscape for us to perceive because we can't have absolute location in this universe from the beginning. So his paintings, with a sense of lacking lyric, make us stop before them. This time, Shirota uses two photographs and stirs us the sense of time and location where he visited. His works take us out to somewhere at the bottom of our deep memory. Photograph and painting join together while they conflict each other. This Shirota's second solo exhibition provokes many issues regarding memory and representation. Exhibition: July 3 - August 5, 2006 Gallery hours: Mon-Sat 11am - 7 pm Base Gallery Koura Daiichi Bldg. 1F, 1-1-6 Nihombashi-Kayabacho, Chuo-ku J-Tokyo 103-0025 Telephone +81-3-5623-6655 Fax +81-3-5623-6656 Email info@basegallery.com www.basegallery.com |
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