At Megumi Ogita Gallery, we are holding a solo exhibition by Kengo Nakamura, "Kengo Nakamura Encyclopedia-Focusing on Works from the 10's".
Kengo Nakamura (b.1969) studied Japanese painting at Tama Art University / Graduate School and represents modern society with emoticons used in e-mails, floor plans of studio apartments, manga balloons and character silhouettes. I have continued to create unique paintings using motifs. Nakamura's work, which has various series, depicts a realistic feeling for us modern people living in modern society and popular culture.

The works drawn by the technique of Japanese painting are based on the problem of the establishment of the concept of "Japanese painting", and are also strongly committed to art history. Sometimes, while freely quoting (approaching) images from Renaissance Botticelli, Mondrian, a pioneer of abstract painting, or Warhol, a leading figure in pop art, he sharply abstracts the reality of the artist himself living in the present. We have developed an abstract series.
Just as there is a series of works called "other than myself" composed of silhouettes of Osamu Tezuka's mobs, it can be said that Kengo Nakamura is constructing his own work by confidently borrowing the image of "other than himself". ..

In addition to painting, he also collaborated with creators of other genres, planned and managed exhibitions and symposiums, and this spring, "End of the 20th Century, Japanese Art-From the Perspective of Each Artist" (edited by Kengo Nakamura) Co-authored by: Tatsuo Mashima, Kyoichi Nagase, Kiyoshi Kusumi, Eriko Kimura, Satoshi Koganezawa), he is expanding his field of activity both in Japan and abroad as one of the leading artists of the present age.

Kengo Nakamura, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of his debut in 2014, is about to enter a new stage this year.
This exhibition focuses on major works from 2010 onwards, and by creating a space reminiscent of a room in a retrospective exhibition or a page in an illustrated book, a writer in the present who connects all the past and the future. Shine light on Kengo Nakamura. If you take a bird's-eye view, you can feel that a consistent philosophy is flowing.
While inviting the viewer to the rich water source of art history, please experience the trajectory of Kengo Nakamura who is trying to engrave a new history there.