[Fukuoka] -ambivalence- Kota NAKAMURA exhibition Nov. 7(Sat) - 23(Mon), 2020

ambivalence: Kota NAKAMURA exhibition
Nov. 7th(Sat) - 23th(Mon), 2020

Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY FUKUOKA
*The artist will be present at the gallery on 7,8,21,22,23 November, 2020.
*Talking event from 2pm on 7,22 November, 2020.

Ambivalence - this exhibition title implies the world expressed in Kota Nakamura's artworks. Beauty and ugliness, life and death, for example.
That was what caused the frisson when I saw his work for the first time. The beauty of a moment when a bullet pierces matter. A transient and also beautiful shape drawn by time and trajectory that should be an action of taking a life away. A contradiction that it is made by the gentle-mannered and calm person.
His history is also interesting as he has a grandfather who is a Western-style painter, Takuji Nakamura, and he learned contemporary art in New York in early time where he experienced the simultaneous terrorist attack.
I want to know more deeply about this artist, I want to see what kind of works and exhibition space he creates. Such thoughts urged me to this solo exhibition.
This is his first solo exhibition in Fukuoka. Please look forward to it.(Kazunobu Abe : MIZOE ART GALLERY)

Kota NAKAMURA
Born in Kamakura city, Kanagawa prefecture, Japan in 1975
Graduated from Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY in 1999.　Completed MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY in 2003, and received Ph.D from Tokyo University of the Arts, Tokyo in 2010.
Selected finalist for the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art of Toro Okamoto Memorial Museum, Tokyo in 2015.
Won the Bronze prize in Tokyo Art Olympia in 2017, and exhibited Asian Art Biennale, Bangladesh in 2018.
Many exhibitions held in New York and abroad, currently based in Tokyo.


Border
in 2019 / bullet, glass, and film / 18 x 18 x 0.4in each