菅 雄嗣

Yuji Suga is interested in "how paintings are created," and although his style changes every few years, he continues to create paintings by crossing "boundaries." First, let me talk about the painting method used in this work. A single screen is divided into two by a straight line, with one side painted with a mirror-like urethane coating and the other side painted with a thin undercoat, creating different bases. Paint is applied evenly to the urethane-coated side, which is then scraped off to create the painting, and the scraped-off paint is used to paint on the canvas. By scraping off the paint, the cold shine of the base is revealed, giving a gloss to the tense strokes. Normally, when expressing light in oil painting, bright paint is layered on top, but in this case the highlights are all at the bottom layer. The paint scraped off to create light crosses the boundary and becomes a shadow. The exact opposite process creates a difference in texture, and on a divided, unstable plane, unwavering lines create a solid world in three dimensions, and the image is compatible. In recent years, influenced by the "liminal space" trend, which has become a popular internet meme around the keyword "border" and which transforms images of empty spaces into fantastical images that mix reality and virtuality, he has also created installations that use projection mapping of CG modeling created to resemble the interior of an exhibition room, expanding the space and blurring the boundary between reality and virtuality.

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