• Mirage #72/2022
Masayoshi Nojo

能條 雅由

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Born in 1989, Masayoshi Nojo is an up-and-coming artist who graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2015, majoring in Japanese painting. We are doing a unique approach to fuse. Ever since he was in college, he has been interested in memories (collective memories) in society, aiming to evoke them in the viewers. , I extracted colors and forms from photographs as the smallest units that make up images in my memory. Then, as an expression of the passage of time, I felt an inspiration in the flow of the river using silver leaf drawn by Korin Ogata's red and white plum blossoms folding screen. On top of that, a photographic image is superimposed with a silk screen using silver foil. Viewers of the works created in this way will pursue afterimages of distant memories like a mirage. Korin Ogata, who was active in the Edo period in the 17th century, used the expression of the flow of a river to become a traditional pattern. Silver also oxidizes and changes color over time, making it a metaphor for the flow of time. Korin Ogata's river flow motif spread to Europe and influenced new artistic activities such as Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century.

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