Year: 2024
Medium: acrylic, oil, oil bar, oil pastel on canvas
Dimensions: 190 x 140 cm (74 7/8 x 55 1/8 in.)
Acquired from Takaishii Gallery, 2024
The dominant purple color is layered in strokes that seem to slide across the canvas. Through the artist’s bold brushstrokes, a gentle color shift occurs within the same color range from bluish purple to reddish purple, while at the same time creating an intense movement as if it transcends the large area of the painting. In the shadows of purple, colors like vivid yellow, green, and orange appear to twinkle like the glitter of ore. The heavy black lines are depicted in organic curves like plants, there are unexpectedly directional lines, creating complexity and depth in the painting. With a closer look, the shadows created by the light shining into the canvas gradually reveal countless traces of other lines and surfaces, which have been painted over the inner part of the visible surface layer of the painting. At first glance, these complex shadows which seem to unintentionally disturb the completed painting, gradually draw the viewer's gaze deeper into the canvas. The pictorial space here is experienced as more three-dimensional and denser when the viewer repeats the visual fluctuations of going through the colors and compositions, alternating focus between the surface and what lies beneath.
