Vardaxoglou is happy to current the primary solo exhibition in London by Japanese artist Kentaro Okumura. The exhibition reveals the artist’s preoccupation with formal qualities—composition, color and texture—and the fragile abstraction of on a regular basis objects and experiences.
Kentaro Okumura paints what he sees—the individuals and the locations he encounters in his day by day life—however manipulates the uncertainty and underdetermination, buying and selling readability of type for readability of impression. Whether or not he brings the viewer earlier than a patch of Scottish coast, a chang’aa brewery in Nairobi, or a scene in Marylebone’s Angel within the Fields pub, Okumura’s visible language grounds the perpetual shift of his personal subjectivity on canvas.
Okumura lays his paint like meshwork. This mesh is thick and dry however it’s also gentle; one can watch his brush operating out of pigment throughout the floor. The ultimate layer of paint is draped, not plastered, over itself. It’s a fishing internet, forged onto a rock till it’s crusty with salt: a community of crisp, fraying marks that crisscross one another to disclose an identifiable picture.
Rising up between China and Japan, and now primarily based in London, Kentaro Okumura explores a singular community of indicators and symbols, used as vessels for thought and emotion. Within the artist’s search for a whole picture, Okumura engages with a historic dialog on utilizing paint to take advantage of the strain between illustration and abstraction.
A collection of intimate watercolours on Japanese washi paper are additionally included within the exhibition.
at Vardaxoglou, London
till Might 17, 2025
