[Tokyo] -ambivalence- Kota NAKAMURA exhibition Nov. 6(Sat) - 23(Mon), 2021

ambivalence: Kota NAKAMURA exhibition
Nov. 6th(Sat) - 23th(Tue), 2021

Venue: MIZOE ART GALLERY TOKYO
*The artist will be present at the gallery on 6,7,13,14,22,23 November, 2021.
*Talking event from 3pm on 6,7 November, 2021.

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 the early time where he experienced the simultaneous terrorist attack.

The feeling that I want to know this artist more deeply, want to see what kind of works and exhibition space he creates let me ask him to hold a solo exhibition.
Last autumn, his exhibition in Fukuoka overwhelmingly surpassed expectations.
His exhibition must amaze us again at the mansion of Denenchofu as a stage. 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