Krooklyn
by Hiro Kurata
No Frame
Year: 2009
Acrylic, Oil on Wood
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One of the characteristics that makes Kurata's painting unique is the way he renders his figures with distortion but yet
well balanced. The figures looking innocent and strong are often portrayed as a baseball player, heroes from the Greek
myths or comical characters from animation works. Kurata spent his childhood going back and forth between the U.S
and Japan. The cultural differences between those places have been a natural source for the themes in his paintings.
He skillfully digests the gaps between the two countries and expresses it in his work with a sense of cynicism. Depicted in
bright pastel colors, the disproportioned figures simultaneously show confidence and sickness. Innocent but frightened by
an enemy at the same time, his subjects being covered with macho bodies seem to hide inside extremely weak souls.
Thus the heroes Kurata creates give viewers a complex impression within which happiness and nihilistic feeling coexist.
Statement by Hiro Kurata
(My work is created upon these thoughts)
to right, there is despair and to left, there is hope
right to left
destruction and strength of the baseball bat
stability and gentleness of the armrest chair
I want to sit on a chair and swing the bat
right to left
Calm days make me sleep and wild days are too chaotic
wake up and sleep, to sooth and then again to derail
Related Topics
- Tat Ito & Hiro Kurata "From Kojiki To Modern Heroism" at Joshua Liner Gallery
- Feb. 11, 2010
- [Exhibition]
- [through Mar 13] "From Kojiki to Modern Heroism" is a two-person exhibition of new paintings by the New York-based Japanese artists Tat Ito and Hiro Kurata.
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