Masato KOBAYASHI
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- Born in Tokyo (1957), Masato Kobayashi has explored his own definition of painting since the mid 1980s. Having deemed that “it is too late to paint after stretching canvas over a wooden frame,” Kobayashi established his way of painting by stretching canvas and painting simultaneously. During his artmaking process, he puts paint on his hand directly from paint tubes and applies colors by rubbing them on the canvas which he holds in place with the other hand. The artist creates image and space at the same time, and his methodology, which seems to integrate the soul of painting and body together, allows his artwork to stand out in the exhibition space and leave a strong impression on the viewers. Selected solo exhibitions: Artist and the Model, ShugoArts, Tokyo, 2019; ART TODAY 2012, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Nagano, 2012; MASATO KOBAYASHI – The Paint of the Planet, Nariwa Museum, Okayama, 2009; Starry Paint, stars of outer space by pure painting, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden, 2004; A Son of Painting Masato Kobayashi, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2001; KOBAYASHI Masato, The Miyagi Museum of Art, 2000
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MOT Collection Part2 : Pleased to meet you. MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO
“From here to beyond” Onomichi City Museum of Art
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Artist and the Model
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Artist and the Model Opening TalkMasato KOBAYASHI × Kaz Oshiro
MOMAT Collection The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Participate: Weavers of Worlds – A Century of Flux in Japanese Modern / Contemporary Art –MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO
participate : Atsuhiko MISAWA ANIMALS IN YOKOSUKA Yokosuka museum of art
Participate: TAKAHASHI COLLECTION FACE AND ABSTRACTION Kiyoharushirakaba museum
Aki KONDO, Landlady and Landlord, pastel crayon, ballpoint pen on envelope, set of 2, 34.3x23.5cm each
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How to live #2 at Roppongi
Curation：Masaya CHIBA
Text：Jitsuzo TAKEDA
＜Opening Party with four artists＞
May 25 fri, from 6pm to 9pm
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participate: Atsuhiko Misawa’s Animal House: House of Enigmas The Shoto Museum of Art
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 8 p.m. on Fridays
(Admission until 30 minutes before closing time)
Closed
Tuesday, October 10; Monday, October 16; Monday, October 23; Monday, October 30; Monday, November 6; Monday, November 13; Monday, November 20
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participate: PHYSIOLOGY OF ART,OR MEDITATION OF TRANSCENDENTAL TASTE Sezon Museum of Modern Art
Interview in his Tomonoura studio. 2016.08.11
Thrice Upon A Time Talk Show Masato KOBAYASHI + Jun AOKI Moderator : Kenjiro HOSAKA
Thrice Upon A Time
Thrice Upon a Time
Beautiful light fills us with visceral pleasure, but something that looks like shit can also give us pleasure.
'Cause as we all know, beauty isn't just about the external qualities of a thing or a person. A lot of times the fact that a certain quality is contained in something or someone that looks like shit makes it even more beautiful. That goes for Duchamp's urinal, Warhol, van Gogh, Caravaggio, and Murakami. Because art isn't about something being better or worse.
That's why there's such a fine line. My utopia is always right there next to the border. Bad paintings are made by outlaws! I think of the paintings in Love, More Awful! But More Beautiful, Because Painting Is All for Love as a family of the planet. Like a family, they live together in a jumble – they're hanging on the wall, they're resting on the floor, there are angels, skies, apples, nudes, and abstract paintings…fragments of stars…family…it's a family of paintings! It's a family of this planet on the border of beauty and shit. And there are some horses out there on the plain. Laughter.
Once upon a time, twice upon a time, thrice upon a time… there was a cowboy and a cowgirl.
Kobayashi Masato,
Tomonoura Studio, August 2016
participate: All Living Things Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum
