NAOYA INOSE
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Title: Work
Year: 2016
Medium: oil, gesso on panel
Dimensions: 40.5 x 50.7 cm (16 x 20 in.)
Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan in 1988. Inose graduated from the Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, majoring in oil painting in 2012, and completed a master's degree at Chelsea College of Arts in 2017. With highly realistic and precise rendering, Inose's paintings can even look like photographs. Yet the scenes depicted are clearly fable-like worlds unlike reality: a monolith suddenly towering in the midst of vast nature, a penguin standing forlornly, a pool that resembles forgotten ruins yet is crystal clear. Just as Western paintings could be read through symbols and allegory, Inose's works are made to tell of issues in society, the environment and culture today. While taking places he has actually visited as subjects, he weaves new fables according to the sensory intuitions gained there. His work has been introduced in group exhibitions at major museums in Japan, including "Takamatsu Contemporary Art Annual Vol.1" (Takamatsu Art Museum, 2010), "20th DOMANI: The Art of Tomorrow" (The National Art Center, Tokyo, 2018) and "Roppongi Crossing 2022: Coming & Going" (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2022–2023), and has also been shown widely abroad, including "Under Current" (Powerlong Museum, Shanghai, 2022) and "The Everyday Interrupted" (Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Taiwan, 2023). His international activity continues to broaden, with a collaboration with discord Yohji Yamamoto, grants from the Nomura Foundation and the Yoshino Gypsum Art Foundation, and the inclusion of his work in the collection of the Fondazione Benetton (Italy).