4590

by Masanao Hirayama

Size: H8.2xW11.7in (H21xW29.7cm)
Year: 2013
Edition: original
Medium: pen on paper
Signed on the back
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Hirayama is an artist who uses a simple medium - a black pen and paper, but how he draws is quite unique. He draws a large number of the same images repeatedly until he feels as if it goes beyond his intention. After drawing many different times, he chooses one as his final work and titles it with a consecutive number of his completed works. In our interview he said, "If I could draw like someone else, that would be perfect. .... I try to choose a work which is out of my control."

Hirayama's works play with our perception or recognition. If the shape looks like a man, it is a man for that viewer. What does this work looks like to you? It is interesting that when there are two shapes drawn together, we start to think of their relationship, try to understand the situation or assign a meaning to them. Hirayama must be playing with human habits.

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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...