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Hisaharu Motoda "CARS"
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Hisaharu Motoda
Hisaharu Motoda was born in Kumamoto Prefecture in 1973. He first encountered lithography, a printmaking technique, while studying at Kyushu Sangyo University's Faculty of Fine Arts. He later pursued a graduate degree in printmaking at Tokyo University of the Arts and residencies in Australia and the United States before embarking on a career as a lithographic printmaker. Motoda's work is characterized by his precise landscapes of abandoned landmarks in Japan and abroad, such as Tokyo Tower and Shibuya's Scramble Crossing, which he began to paint around 2004, based on his interest in the process of weathering artificial structures and their return to nature, as well as the urban landscapes he felt when he moved to Tokyo from his hometown. Motoda's work was featured prominently in the "To the Other Side of the End: Art History of Ruins" exhibition held at the Shoto Museum of Art in 2018, which included the message "the present will always be the past" in the context of today's abandoned paintings.
In this exhibition, his first at Art Front Gallery since 2017, Motoda will present a new development from his previous style. In a series of new works, titled "CARS," a collage of countless lithographs of full-size, old, and deteriorated miniature cars are set against a background of life-size asphalt and white lines that look like they have been cut straight out of a real-world road. In contrast to the abandoned landscapes depicted so far, in which existing buildings are imaginatively ruined and the precise touch brings a sense of reality to the viewer, in the "CARS" series, although the realistic depiction is still present, the road in the background and the miniature cars in the collage are both life-size, thus giving the impression of a mismatch in scale between the miniature cars in the foreground and the road in the background. The mismatch in the scale of the miniature cars is striking. Reminiscent of a drone reconnaissance video, the countless miniature cars, which unfold from a viewpoint looking down from above, are sometimes oriented in the same direction and scattered in disorder on the dry road surface.
In this exhibition, his first at Art Front Gallery since 2017, Motoda will present a new development from his previous style. In a series of new works, titled "CARS," a collage of countless lithographs of full-size, old, and deteriorated miniature cars are set against a background of life-size asphalt and white lines that look like they have been cut straight out of a real-world road. In contrast to the abandoned landscapes depicted so far, in which existing buildings are imaginatively ruined and the precise touch brings a sense of reality to the viewer, in the "CARS" series, although the realistic depiction is still present, the road in the background and the miniature cars in the collage are both life-size, thus giving the impression of a mismatch in scale between the miniature cars in the foreground and the road in the background. The mismatch in the scale of the miniature cars is striking. Reminiscent of a drone reconnaissance video, the countless miniature cars, which unfold from a viewpoint looking down from above, are sometimes oriented in the same direction and scattered in disorder on the dry road surface.
Schedule | Jun 24 (Fri) 2022-Jul 17 (Sun) 2022 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://www.artfrontgallery.com/en/exhibition/archive/2022_05/4569.html | ||||
| Venue | Art Front Gallery http://www.artfrontgallery.com/ | ||||
| Location | Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 | ||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line, 11 minute walk from the West exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines, 8 minute walk from exit 4 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-3476-4869 | ||||
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