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Fuyuki Maehara - solo exhibition: wooden sculpture
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Published: December 29 2008

photo by Keizo KIOKU copy right(c) Fuyuki Maehara / Courtesy of YOKOI FINE ART

We are pleased to announce that the solo exhibition “Toki – the moment” of Fuyuki Maehara (1962- ) in YOKOI FINE ART will be held as above. The artworks shown in THE OBUSE MUSEUM & THE NAKAIJMA CHINAMI GALLERY in Nagano last year and the latest artworks compose this exhibition. It must be a good opportunity for both who went to the exhibition in Obuse and missed it to rediscover his unique world. We are looking forward to your coming and advertisement. Maehara has focused on ichiboku (one wood) in his career. He does not use a bonding agent. The objects he executes such as metal, leather and ceramics as motives are carved out from a wood at first, and then painted. As a result, his creations look like real ones. Only those who have experienced his world with their own eyes can feel strong emotion. You can not help touching them if you know that all of them are made of wood. It is too beautiful to take your eyes off although the motives are daily items. The reason they fascinate us must be the existence as the artworks which are completely different from the real items. In addition, his wooden and painted sculpture gives us the impression of “pictorial”. It may come from his background; he received his B.A. in Oil Painting from Tokyo University of the Arts. You can feel it on ikkoku (2005-2006. A dried up, white crab on the rusty iron plate) for instance. “To decay as time has passed” is one of the keywords of Maehara’s artworks. For example, you will find that the some of the legs of the crabs are snapped because of weathering, maybe. But you can also find the complete beauty left in something weathered such as this crab. They are not just incomplete form which is broken. A well-used leather belt, a razor left alone for several decades… They were used by somebody a long time ago. They have decayed as time goes by and are left as they were in shape. The tools such as a razor and scissors are the complete style of its design because they must be functional, not necessary to be fashionable. To keep the shape seems not to lose their pride as a tool as if they are left alone. Maehara may reflect himself on these things. Actually, he has been executing his artworks far from the world. It can be said it is a kind of irony towards the people who are following the fashion but Mahehara himself is devoting all his time to executing his artworks with being unconscious of the irony. He says, “I would not like to define the significance of my artworks. The every single impression of each audience - that’s the answer.” * The text was provided by YOKOI FINE ART.

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