“draMatic” by Joji Nakamura

06 March -

この度の個展に際し、意識的に人物画を描きました。
これまでも描いてきていますが、これは人物画ですと口に出すことは少なかったと思います。
人物の絵を描くという事は僕にとっては限りなく意味のない行為に近いです。…と言うととてもネガティブな感じにもなってしまいそうですがそう言うわけではなく、
「意味なんてない。ただ意味に代わる何かを生み出す事ができるのではないか。それは強さなのか、存在感なのか、美しさなのか？」
そういったことを思った時、人物を描くという事が自分にしっくりときたのです。
自分が描くものには何があるのか？そんな自問自答を繰り返しながら描いた作品たちです。意味は無く、美しいものを自分自身観てみたいと思っているのかも知れません。
- 中村穣二

We’re pleased to announce having a solo exhibition by Joji Nakamura for the first time in the last 3 years at Clear Gallery Tokyo. 

Nakamura’s paintings rely interpretation of “something” between abstract and concrete on audience, and his improvisational and rich lines seem to include his will.
The world of Nakamura, which had been pictured by white and black before, gained colors and became much eloquent. It is like an unconscious casual answer toward a question of “A meaning of no meaning” like Zen riddle. 

Please join us to solo exhibition by Nakamura with full of new works.

For this exhibition, I consciously painted portraits.
Although I’ve been painting those, I’ve not professed it often. Painting portraits is almost meaningless behavior for me. ...well, you may interpret this in negative, but I don’t mean so.
“There is no meaning. However, I would be able to ingenerate something new instead of meaning. Is it strength? Is it a sense of presence? Is it a beauty?”
When I considered such things, ‘painting a portrait’ somehow persuaded me.
As I asked myself a question “what are there in objects of my painting?” again and again, I made those works.
I might unconsciously hope to see something beautiful without meaning.
- Joji Nakamura

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