Masato KOBAYASHI
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- 1957 Born in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts (B.A.). Received Bienal Internacional de Artes de São Paulo (1996). Moved to Ghent, Belgium, at the invitation of Jan Hoet in 1997~2006. Back to Japan in 2006 and built the studio at Tomonoura in Hiroshima. Selected solo exhibitions: KOBAYASHI Masato, The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai (2000); A Son of Painting Masato Kobayashi, S.M.A.K., Ghent (2001); Starry Paint, stars of outer space by pure painting, Tensta Konsthall, Spanga, Sweden (2004); ART TODAY 2012, Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Karuizawa (2012), Thrice Upon A Time, ShugoArts, Tokyo (2017).
Lives in Hiroshima and Tokyo. - cv
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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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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
