April - May 2017

NOBUHIRO NAKANISHI

"STRIPE DRAWING ON MIRROR SCENERY OF WATER"

Unique piece, 2017

Size: 200cm x 247cm

Material: Engraving on glass mirror

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My Stripe Drawings consist of countless vertical lines that are drawn free hand. The lines cannot exist without the interval spaces between them. Likewise, the intervals also cannot exist without the lines. A figure formed by the assembly of the lines and the space around it are linked together by the gaps between the stripes. Here, the figure and the ground are so to speak fused together without the boundaries between them.

When the stripes are drawn on mirrors, they bring about not only the horizontal expansion of space but also the expansion of the depth and the background, leading viewers into the world that lies beyond the drawn lines. Thus, the visible and the invisible, and the world on this side and that on the other side cross in this drawing.

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Biography

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In his evocative, mixed-media sculptures and installations, Nobuhiro Nakanishi aims to bridge the gap between art and life through immersive, time-based images of nature and natural phenomena that come as close as possible to matching how we might perceive them in reality. “By capturing spatial change and the infinite flow of time, I strive to produce art that creates movement between the artwork itself and the viewer’s experience of the artwork,” he says. With his series of what he calls “layered drawings,” for example, he begins by photographing such things as sunsets, foggy forests, or a burning candle over a period of time. Nakanishi then mounts his photographs onto clear acrylic panels, out of which he forms chronological, layered installations that effectively re-create these phenomena for viewers to experience, while highlighting the process of perception itself.

Japanese, b. 1976, Fukuoka, Japan, based in Osaka, Japan