Hideto Imai “My Way: Minimal”
Onishi Gallery
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Onishi Project presents “My Way: Minimal,” a solo show of Japanese artist Hideto Imai. Departing from an innovative tradition of black-and-white charcoal drawings, Imai makes a new statement in this exhibition with richly saturated colors and bold shapes. Although he has changed his tools of artistry, his creative concept remains the foundation of his work. Imai recognizes the significance of everyday routines, such as acquiring food and material things, and responds to commodity chains and economic structures that drain human beings of a sense of value or responsibility. In this vein, Imai formerly drew with charcoal that he made out of the ash of burned receipts collected after shopping in grocery stores. He values the artist’s interaction with media, and mark on paper, as a sign of human existence, and a reminder of his or her physical presence and action in the world. Imai writes in his artist statement, “I express the importance of relation. I research the essence of life from the side of perception.” By painting bold forms that evoke commercial goods and yet are also abstract enough to draw the viewer into worlds of imagination, Imai reminds us of the relationships that we have, and of the relationship that we do not realize we have, with the materials that surround us.
Hideto Imai was born in 1968 in Japan’s Mie Prefecture and has exhibited extensively in Japan, New York, and Rome.
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Schedule
from October 17, 2013 to October 23, 2013