We should make a new discovery every day we wake up and today´s is called Shintaro Ohata (Hiroshima 1975), a real contemporary artist who doesn´t pretend to be another fake in galleries but presenting a honest and clear proposal, even naif if we take into account the daylife themes he treats. Paintings in blue (sad meaning) colours and textures, sometimes amazingly preceded by weak and silent figures that go much further than simple sculptures before their canvas.
The Japanese artist is participating in an exhibition in LA from March 15 to April 2 2014, preceding the epic SuperAwesome: Art and Giant Robot at the Oakland Museum of California, from April 19 to July 27, 2014.
Omedeto gozaimasu, Ohata-san. We hope to see your work soon nearby.
Shintaro Ohata depicts moments and little things in everyday life, capturing all sorts of light in his work with a unique touch: convenience stores at night, city roads on rainy day and fast-food shops at dawn etc. His paintings show us ordinary sceneries as dramas, but placing sculptures in front of paintings and showing them as one work, a combination of 2-D and 3-D world.
Hope you enjoy it.
“Vapor trail” (2007), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
“AJISAI” (2009), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
“Loop” (2010), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
“2″ (2011), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
”In the sound” (2012), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
“Happy birthday?” (2012), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
“Sayonara Sankaku” (2008), painting and polystyrene based sculpture
“Melancholic” (2007), acrylic on canvas
“Tomorrow” (2009), acrylic on canvas
“Afterglow” (2011), acrylic on canvas
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Watercolors by Soraya Estefana in shop and slideshow gallery. Click on pictures to go to file
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Photos via Yukari Art Gallery