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February 2011
Daisuke Fukunaga
Solo Exhibition
To have something as support
Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo
until 26 February

DAISUKE FUKUNAGA drawings commonly draws commonly found yet left and unattended places, where no one usually pays attentions. These places are such as an empty plot of land, a basement floor within a building under construction where there is no electricity coming yet, those dusty and worn-out cleaning mops, or tyres, plastic hoses coiling itself, or wastes. As the artist says "The way these mops or tyres are being left gives me an impression of that time is slipped out there from anywhere else. It looks very dramatic to me." Those objects exists as if they have obtained emotions or even personalities in Fukunaga's paintings, and are seen to have left the values normally being given away.

With having eschatological-looking background and the use of personification, Fukunaga's paintings have strong effect to the viewers to evoke narrative and theatrical sense. Fictionality and reality together dissolves and dense sense arouse - it is the sense originated from Fukunaga's simple yet earnest attitude which artist says "The motifs I draw are based on those I actually saw and those which leave strong impressions to me."

Concept
This exhibition will present approximately ten portrait works, which is the first attempt for the artist.
Fukunaga explains about people he draw in the paintings as "There is their own ways of expressions or acts to encourage themselves when they encounter hardship, feeling empty or being passionless. These acts are seemingly to possess something to self, but I think it actually is "to have something as support". My works are the portrait of those who lives happily and prosperous by doing so - they are those I think ideal, those I actually met, or those born from my imagination - or perhaps they are my self portraits."

People appearing in the paintings are comical, funny and being outside-d, yet conveying the viewers the thoughness and power of life itself.
About Daisuke Fukunaga
Daisuke Fukunaga was born in Tokyo in 1981, graduated from Tama Art University, and currently lives and works in Kanagawa.

Major group exhibition includes "AFTER THE REALITY 2" at the Deitch Projects (New York) in 2008 and "VOCA 2009 - The Vision of Contemporary Art" at The Ueno Royal Museum. Fukunaga also participated into "Hello! MIHO KANNO" at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya as a part of artist group MIHO KANNO. Fukunaga was awarded "The 1st Koji Kinutani Award" from Mainichi Shimbun, in 2009. Public Collection includes Taguchi Art Collection. At Tomio Koyama Gallery, Fukunaga has exhibited his solo shows in 2006 and 2008, as well as participating in a group show "Paintings by Four Artists" in 2010.

About Tomio Koyama Gallery - Tokyo

Tomio Koyama Gallery introduces various artists in Japan and the world such as Yoshimoto Nara and Mika Ninagawa. 50 modern artists belong to the gallery exhibits their paintings, installations, photographs and drawings. The gallery leads Japanese modern art society today.

Tomio Koyama Gallery is a contemporary gallery in the Kiyosumi area of Tokyo prefecture. It is located in an industrial building along with Taka Ishii Gallery, Hiromi Yoshii, Magical Artroom, and Shugoarts.

Tomio Koyama Gallery Kyoto

In order to introduce the works of our artists to a lot of people we have opened another space of our gallery in the beautiful city of Kyoto which has long traditions and a very old history.
Our new space is close to Higashi Honganji Temple. The building itself used to be dye factory which has been transformed to gallery space now.

tomiokoyamagallery.com