2022/7/16 ~ 8/12
せ
箕浦 建太郎 | Kentaro Minoura
at: parcel
東京都中央区日本橋馬喰町 2-2-14 まるかビル2階
Maruka bldg 2F, 2-2-14 Nihonbashi-Bakurocho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo
Open :
Wed ~ Sun 14:00-19:00
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Closed : Mon, Tue
parcel is pleased to announce Kentaro Minoura’s solo exhibition “Se”, his first solo exhibition in two years since his solo exhibition “Ki” at PARCEL in January 2020.
Since his childhood, Minoura has been exposed to various cultures such as manga, anime, video games, movies, and music, and has continued to express himself beyond the boundaries of these genres, focusing mainly on painting and music. Through these experiences, Minoura’s work has been refined, culminating in his current style in which he depicts a form of life. Though it is not clear what these creatures actually are, they stand with an ambiguous expression that is difficult to describe, amidst the complex layers of paints. His ceramic works, which he has been working on vigorously in recent years, also have a primitive expression, with the unique presence that suggests that they may have been used as objects of worship in ancient times.
Through both his paintings and sculptures, Minoura’s works share a primitive sense of being as a life-form. Rather than a sense of harmony within the composition as a painting, or the impression of organized and refined modeling beauty, Minoura’s work is closer to the physical and primitive feeling that humans have within themselves from the times before we gave names and words to things and feelings. The depicted motifs in his paintings are sometimes an unbalanced figure of something that has a life of its own, while embodying the mass and texture of brushes, paints, and clay.
箕浦 建太郎 | Kentaro Minoura
Born 1978 in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka pref. and raised in Asakusa, Tokyo. He is currently based and works in Yamanashi Prefecture.
Since his childhood, Minoura has always been drawing. His works, currently focused on paintings, have been exhibited in various formats, including exhibitions, books, records, and on the Internet. In Minoura’s current paintings, organic beings surface in the layers of various paints. In recent years, he has been actively producing three-dimensional works such as ceramic sculptures. His publications include “未完成大陸(Unfinished Continent)” and “Decapitron 3” (SHOBOSHOBO-BOOKS), “Myojo” (co-published with photographer Kotori Kawashima), “Toriko” (Tokyo News Press), “Hello, Good” and “TOURS”.