Tetsuya NAKAMURA studio Shokudo

Before, at dusk, I saw a scene while taking a walk in the shopping street. An apparently poor mother with a sleeping child on her back was intently playing "UFO Catcher" without paying any attention to her surrounding. Seeing this, I hadbeen deeply touched.

Did she have only ¥100 although she wanted to buy a toy for her child?
Was she simply enjoying herself while her child was asleep?
Was she enjoying herself, was she in pain, or was it neither...
Whatever the reason, the mother and child had enough power to attract my attention, and enough elements to make me think.
A totally individual thought or action influencing the surrounding -- I think art has a similar kind of attraction.
I am not saying that one should be content with a self-conclusive work made just for self-satisfaction.

In this case, "the look implying poverty", "being in a pair of mother and child", and "an enjoyable game - the UFO Catcher", were all important factors, and the "shopping street at dusk" had effectively utilized these factors to make them interesting.
Not simply waiting for influences towards the environment to happen, but to concentrate on myself with strong power emitted towards the visitors (in the above case, towards the passers-by), incorporating factors that are decipherable --

The recent theme I am involved in could be "having a back that communicates strongly" like the mother and child.

FAT TIME FAT TIME
installation view
1996
plastic, wood, glass

FAT TIME
FAT TIME
installation view
1996
plastic, wood, glass

FAT TIME FAT TIME
1996
plastic, wood, glass
250 x 510 x 250 cm
FAT TIME FAT TIME
(detail)
1996
plastic, wood, glass


POP OFF POP OFF
MORPHE '95 POP OFF
1995
trophies, paints

GREAT GAINER GREAT GAINER
1995
trophies
"WINNER'S EMBLEM"
installation view
1995
brass foil, trophies, wood
WINNER'S EMBLEM



PEST CONTROL PEST CONTROL, Gold Turtle
installation view
1994
stuffed turtle, gold foil
PEST CONTROL PEST CONTROL, Gold Turtle
1994
stuffed turtle, gold foil
60 x 50 cm
Nakamura Tetsuya's Aesthetic of Insect Classification
1993
gold foil, insects
Aesthetic of Insect Classification
Nakamura Tetsuya's Aesthetic of Insect Classification
installation view
1993
gold foil, insects
Aesthetic of Insect Classification


Future activities
Group Exhibition
Title ART SCENE 90-96
Period February 1 (Sat) - March 16 (Sun), 1997
Location Art Tower Mito, Contemporary Art Center (Ibaraki)
Information Tel.029-227-8111
Solo Exhibition
Period February 10 - March 1, 1997
Location AKI-EX Gallery (Minami Aoyama, Tokyo)
Information Tel.03-3499-4254
Period July 1(Tue) - July 21(Mon), 1997
Location Gallery Koyanagai (Ginza, Tokyo)
Information Tel.03-3561-1896

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