Nakayashiki Tomonari

At ART OSAKA 2024, KOKI ARTS will showcase Tomoaki Nakayashiki's large-scale works, enveloping the exhibition space with his paintings.

In recent years, Nakayashiki has been using masking tape as a "material/medium" in his paintings, similar to the way paint is used, creating unique layered and textured works that are suggestive of collages or paper cutouts. The masking tape sometimes becomes a line or a color plane, and can also be a physical layer on the canvas. When the paint, masking tape, peeling, transparency of the medium, and space on the canvas is in complete harmony, the relationship between figure and ground becomes blurred, and the inaccuracy and fragility of our visual recognition (perception, intuition, conception) become manifest.