others' potted plant

by Keisuke Kondo

Size: H39.3xW39.3n (H100xW100cm)
Year: 2007
Edition: original
Medium: pigments paint brought from mineral/soil/plant, acrylic paint, bone glue, Japanese paper
Signed on the back
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This work was created right after he graduated from the university. Since he knew the work will be his starting point, he carefully choose a motif that won't be too iconic or conceptual. And he decided to draw objects placed around his everyday life. Starting from a round bagel on the top of the canvas, he added another motif related to it in the second row. And again, he chose another motif related to the former one. That is way, all the motifs are placed like in a pyramid. He ended adding another when nothing come up to his mind.

Kondo uses a traditional Japanese technique "Tsukuri-e" to depict motifs. In Tsukuri-e technique, it starts with a black ink drawing outlines. Then, he paints the base color, colors the motifs and draws the black lines again on top. Moreover, there is no redo in this technique and colors are added little by little until when he decides to stop.

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Interview with Keisuke Kondo & Masanao Hirayama Feb. 24, 2014 [Interview] Kondo is a young painter who uses traditional Japanese techniques and restructures it with modern motifs. On the other hand, Hirayama draws intuitional lines with a black marker pen on paper. His drawings are in between objects and icons. Their styles are totally different but exhibited in one gallery space under the exhibition titled "Wood board, Paper & Mobile phones" at MA2 Gallery. Keisuke Kondo (left: traditional Japanese painter) and Masanao Hirayama (right: drawing artist) Restructuring the traditional technique -May...