- Mirage #79／2022
Masayoshi NOJO
能條 雅由
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Born in 1989 and completed a master's degree in Japan painting at Kyoto University of Art and Design in 2015, Masayoshi Nojo is an up-and-coming artist who has a unique approach to fusing contemporary expression with the expression of the passage of time as a tradition of Japan art.
Since I was a university student, I have been interested in memories in society (collective memory) and aspired to evoke them to the viewer, and in order to remove arbitrariness from my creations, I chose a mixed-media method of expression that incorporates photographs, and extracted colors and forms from photographs as the smallest units that make up the image of memory.
Then, as an expression of the passage of time, I felt a flash of inspiration in the flow of the river using silver foil drawn by Ogata Korin's red and white plum folding screen, and based on the impression of the colors extracted from the photographs, the base panel was marblingd, and the image of the photograph was superimposed on it with a silkscreen using silver foil. The viewer of the resulting work will be in search of an image of a distant memory, such as the Mirage/ Shinkirou.
Ogata Korin, who was active in the Edo period in the 17th century, expressed the flow of the river as a traditional pattern. Silver also oxidizes and changes color over time, making it a metaphor for the passage of time. Ogata Korin's motif of the flow of the river traveled to Europe and influenced new artistic activities such as Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century, and the motif can be seen in Klimt's work "The Kiss".
(YUKIKO M IZ UTANI Gallery)
Masayoshi Nojo, born in 1989, completed his MA in Japanese Paintings in 2015.
He fuses contemporary visual languages with Japanese aesthetics to explore themes of
memory and the passage of time.
During his studies, he became interested in collective memory. His exploration of time and
memory is achieved using an innovative variety of mixed media and other techniques. He
selects mixed media, including photography, to eliminate the arbitrariness of creation. He
abstracts form and colors from photographs as the minimum constituent elements of image
in memories.
By disassembling and reconstructing his photographs with metal foils, the photographs,
affected by both light and space transform into forms of faint existence, abstracting the
factuality of photography. With this unique process, he conjures a sense of deja-vu in the
viewer, evoking their memories from deep with in subconscious.
Masayoshi Nojo_CV
Since I was a university student, I have been interested in memories in society (collective memory) and aspired to evoke them to the viewer, and in order to remove arbitrariness from my creations, I chose a mixed-media method of expression that incorporates photographs, and extracted colors and forms from photographs as the smallest units that make up the image of memory.
Then, as an expression of the passage of time, I felt a flash of inspiration in the flow of the river using silver foil drawn by Ogata Korin's red and white plum folding screen, and based on the impression of the colors extracted from the photographs, the base panel was marblingd, and the image of the photograph was superimposed on it with a silkscreen using silver foil. The viewer of the resulting work will be in search of an image of a distant memory, such as the Mirage/ Shinkirou.
Ogata Korin, who was active in the Edo period in the 17th century, expressed the flow of the river as a traditional pattern. Silver also oxidizes and changes color over time, making it a metaphor for the passage of time. Ogata Korin's motif of the flow of the river traveled to Europe and influenced new artistic activities such as Art Nouveau at the end of the 19th century, and the motif can be seen in Klimt's work "The Kiss".
(YUKIKO M IZ UTANI Gallery)
Masayoshi Nojo, born in 1989, completed his MA in Japanese Paintings in 2015.
He fuses contemporary visual languages with Japanese aesthetics to explore themes of
memory and the passage of time.
During his studies, he became interested in collective memory. His exploration of time and
memory is achieved using an innovative variety of mixed media and other techniques. He
selects mixed media, including photography, to eliminate the arbitrariness of creation. He
abstracts form and colors from photographs as the minimum constituent elements of image
in memories.
By disassembling and reconstructing his photographs with metal foils, the photographs,
affected by both light and space transform into forms of faint existence, abstracting the
factuality of photography. With this unique process, he conjures a sense of deja-vu in the
viewer, evoking their memories from deep with in subconscious.
Masayoshi Nojo_CV
