BOTAN Yasuyoshi
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leche, miedo
2010 / Oil, pencil, gesso on linen/ 33.5×24(cm, each)
*private collection
Existing between humanity and object and language – whose harmonious linkages allow our everyday lives and society to function – the invisible codes of relationship that secretly control how we who live within them see things around us. Botan unearths situations that are founded on such tacit understandings and observes their workings with great attention, and at the same time, in accordance with his own rules of criterion for the visual-physical elements of contour, form and movement, he carries out ingenious rearrangements of the individual aspects of such situations and reconstructs them within his paintings.
In this world of painting, where fragments of realms freed from ordinary meanings and contexts crop up like nagging riddles, there are three aspects: the paints, which are the material, the primary image elements of line, point and surface, and the images “reproduced” by these elements. Appearing in some places as non-intersecting things that occur in layers or side-by-side, elsewhere these three aspects form gradations, melting together into intimate unions. And then the contexts of meaning or narrative that are brought out through the various components of the painted surface begin, within their incomplete states, to resonate with each other, holding the consciousness of the viewer in sway with their furtive, cryptic exchanges.
Biography
1971
Born in Osaka, Japan
1997
Graduated from School of Visual Arts, Department of Fine Art, NY
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Conversation between Stupid Leche and Fearful Miedo, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2010
dodo, MA2 Gallery, Tokyo
2008
into the forest, hpgrp gallery, Tokyo
2006
Plotless Story, Osaka Contemporary Art Center, Osaka
2005
Bloomfield, Tokyo Wonder Site SHIBUYA, Tokyo
2004
INAX Gallery, Tokyo ['01]
2003
Sap Education Grant / the 4th commemorative exhibition,
Saison Art Program gallery, Tokyo
2002
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2002, City Hall, Tokyo
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
migratory -lost in the world-, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2008
ACG eyes 1 : Moving images and Drawings - narrative -
ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka
2006
Montblanc de la Culture Arts Patronage Award Ceremony, Tokyo
2005
iimawashi, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland
2004
Emerging Artists Fron Tokyo Wonder Site, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
2002
Become R.Buckminster Fuller in 21st century,
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Tokyo Wonder Wall 2002, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Toride Re - cycling Art Project 2002, Toride Art Project 2002, Ibaragi
The Taro Okamoto Memorial Award for Contemporary Art, Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kanagawa
Public Collection
Toyota Art Museum, Aichi
Quriante
2010 / Oil, pencil, gesso on canvas/ 97×162(cm)
installation view: "migratory -lost in the world-"
(group exhibition, 2009, ARTCOURT Gallery)
photograph: Kiyoshi Sakashita
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AENEAS Wilder
AKIYAMA Yo
BOTAN Yasuyoshi
FUKUMOTO Shihoko
FUKUMOTO Fuku
FUJIMOTO Yukio
KAMEI Yoichiro
KAWASHIMA Keiju
KURANUKI Toru
KURITA Koichi
KOKUFU Osamu
KOBAYASHI Rikuichiro
MIZUTA Hiroshi
MURAKAMI Saburo
NISHIDA Jun
NISHINO Kozo
NOMURA Hitoshi
OTA Saburo
SHIOYASU Tomoko
UEMATSU Keiji
USAMI Keiji (Japanese only)
UCHIUMI Satoshi
UCHIDA Haruyuki (Japanese only)
YANAGISAWA Akira
YAMANO Chisato
YANOBE Kenji
YORIGAMI Kuri
WATANABE Nobuko
Yagi Art Management, Inc
ARTCOURT Gallery
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