Nobuyuki Osaki was born in 1975 in Osaka. He majored in print making in Kyoto City University of Art, and completed MFA in 2000. His early creation while in a college using self-portrait lead him interested in the surroundings and recognitions around him, and he started pursuing the method to describe his feels of "obscureness of world" and "uncertainty of reality". He has been developing artworks in various forms include sculpture, installation, painting, and photograph, in order to express his perspective of the world. After experiencing artist in residence in Dusseldorf, Germany, his main creation has came to the unique "melting paintings".

He has been exhibited in east Japan basis. Some of his recent exhibitions include "Re-Act" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2007), "Meltdown", Kyoto Art Center (2008), and "drowing room" Kobe Art Village Center(2009). This exhibition at YUKA CONTEMPORARY is the long-awaited show in Tokyo.

About exhibition
Osaki has been experimenting the way of clarify the world of "uncertainty of reality" using unique, original method of "melting picture", speculating boundary "between" the "recognizing" and "watching" from the perspective of contemporary society as "meta real / meta fiction".

In this exhibition, the new video installation work "World falls / Swimming the world" created combining images of the world's three big falls; Niagara, Victoria, and Iguazu falls, and "water drawing - Phantom" presented in Germany in 2009 will be shown. The "World falls / Swimming the world" is a movie that the collage dolls playing in a painted big fall are falling down as the image melts. This cynical image expresses the fact that the world or scene where we "(believe to) know" is "actually unknown", and our locus of reality in the obscure world of recognition where we live.

The "water drawing - Phantom" is a movie and photo works made out of continuous images of pieces of drawings on a water ripped and melted slowly by the surface tension of water. The motif of "Phantom", meaning "ghost", are the images of little girls collected from magazine and internet. They are the everlasting girls interpreted as "zombie" floating around in the everlasting world of information, data, and images.

Features
The both works are not made by CG, but Osaki actually makes drawings and melt them in order to express his perspective of "reality / unreality" and "uncertainty of reality". He makes a number of same drawings and take many shoots (because the drawing melts), and select a single cut from the amount of takes. This maybe in fact the world that Osaki tries to glance, where the boundary of "certain / uncertain" is, in the piled up "reality" of his act of making drawings.

Audience will see Osaki's perspective by the works created by high-originality and unique method to depict the images. The exhibition title "falls", came from the "water falls" of the new work and also the "people falls", is symbolic word to describe contemporary society.

* The text provided by YUKA CONTEMPORARY.

Opened dates: November 6 - 26, 2010