Expressing the sensations gained through hearing impairment with paintings | Kaoru Nakamura solo exhibition “In Between-Resonance”

Kaoru Nakamura << Noise – 1 >> 2022

Kaoru Nakamura's solo exhibition "In Between-Resonance" held at Whitestone Gallery Ginza New Building

At the White Stone Gallery Ginza New Building (6-4-16, Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo), a solo exhibition "In Between-Resonance" by Kaoru Nakamura will be held from June 3rd (Friday) to July 2nd (Saturday), 2022. It will be held during the period of.

Kaoru Nakamura << Noise – 1 >> 2022

・ About the exhibition

Whitestone Gallery Ginza Shinkan will hold a solo exhibition "In Between-Resonance" by Kaoru Nakamura, an artist and hearing-impaired person. Kaoru Nakamura has been exploring the points of contact and limitations in sound and communication through his work.

Kaoru Nakamura started with the early production of Japanese paintings, changed his senses due to the cochlear implant worn on his right ear in 2012, studied in the United States for two years from 2018, and introduced expressions using various materials and new technologies. Experienced differently physically and culturally.

This exhibition focuses on Nakamura's important theme of "sound and communication," and re-expresses the mental landscape constructed with sounds and languages that he has felt as a hearing-impaired person with paintings, which is the origin of the artist. It will be an exhibition that seeks points of contact that can sympathize with each other while living vigorously even in a modern society where the future is uncertain.

Comment from writer Kaoru Nakamura
In this exhibition, I will return to the painting that was my starting point and express the mental landscape constructed with the sounds and languages that I have felt since childhood as a hearing-impaired person. The audience who touched this expression felt that they could live strongly in the social space even if they were uncertain, and the audience's dialogue with the landscape stimulated their imagination and separated them by boundaries. I hope to find a point of contact with others that I can relate to.

・ About Yoshiaki Nakamura

Nakamura completed the doctoral program in Japanese painting at Tokyo University of the Arts in 2015, and the graduate school at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the United States in 2020. Nakamura has explored the points of contact and limitations in hearing and visual sounds and communication that exist among people, and has unknowingly hinted at the boundaries that separate oneself from others from early Japanese paintings. This world reflects the appearance of a quiet world as a hearing-impaired person. Also, by wearing a cochlear implant on the right ear from December 2012, there is a big change in the perception of voice, vision, and time, which has a strong influence on the color and spatial sense of the current work, as well as the sense of language and communication. Giving.

・ Biography

SOLO EXHIBITION
2021 Wave Pool Gallery (Cincinnati)
The Welcome Project (Cincinnati)
V + V Gallery (Cincinnati)
Julio Fine Arts Gallery, Loyola University Maryland (Baltimore)
2013 Compass Gallery (Ginza)
2011 Shinseido Gallery (Aoyama)
November 2007 Gallery (Ginza)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Collaboration, (September 20, 2020) Curator: Mark Harris, Wavepool Gallery, Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center
COLLECTIONS
Collection of works Taito-ku collection of works graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts

・ Exhibition Overview / Gallery Exhibition

Kaoru Nakamura solo exhibition "In Between-Resonance"
Session: June 3rd (Friday) -July 2nd (Saturday), 2022
Venue: Whitestone Gallery Ginza New Building Business Hours: 11:00 – 19:00
Closed days: Sundays and Mondays Location: 6-4-16 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Click here for details: Kaoru Nakamura PROFILE page
https://www.whitestone-gallery.com/ja/blogs/artist/yoshiaki-nakamura

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・ About Whitestone Gallery

Since opening in Ginza, Tokyo in 1967, Whitestone Gallery has established itself as an art gallery that can compete with the rest of the world. In addition to domestic stores in Ginza and Karuizawa, it also has bases in Hong Kong (HK H Queen's, an art complex) and Taiwan. Whitestone is one of the most pioneering art galleries in Asia, introducing postwar Gutai art, contemporary artists, and up-and-coming young artists.

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Established: 1967
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