Masayuki Arai Like paintings

9/22(Mon)-

Azabu Fire Station Temporary Government Building
(Former Site of Azabu Police Station)

Free

Each painting begins by printing out a photograph found online and pasting it onto a canvas. The artist then imagines and paints the areas outside the photograph that were not depicted, and finally peels the photograph away, leaving only the imaginary parts behind.

The paint squeezed out of the syringe builds up in thickness, forming an image. The image is visible from a distance, and the paint from up close, dissolving the boundary between image and matter.

The pasted photograph is both the trigger that begins the painting and an inaccessible other. Between reality and illusion, the artist explores how paintings are born and how they can exist.