Group Exhibition "Shape of Gaze.02"

5/29 (Sat.) - 6/27 (Sun.), 2021
Exhibiting Artists : Taishi Urakawa, Kenta Cobayashi, Issei Yamagata

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Installation View
Works
Taishi URAKAWA "Multiple Horizontals (Images and Brushstrokes)"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 1620 x 910 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "corner of the room, mold"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 910 × 520 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Untitled"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 910×520mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Room, Window, Outside"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 910 x 512 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Untitled (ghost)"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 530 x 298 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Untitled (ghost)"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 530 x 298 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "fence"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 530 x 298 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Landscape with A Window"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 530 x 298 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Distant and near view"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 530 x 298 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Hand"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 300 x 300 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Thumbnail"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 100 x 100 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Thumbnail"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 100 x 100 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Thumbnail"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 100 x 100 mm
Taishi URAKAWA, "Thumbnail"
2021
cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 100 x 100 mm
  • installation view

  • Shibuya_1, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_2, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_3, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_4, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_5, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_6, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_7, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_8, #9squares #smudge

  • Shibuya_9, #9squares #smudge

Kenta COBAYASHI, "Shibuya_1-9, #9squares #smudge"
2020
inkjet print mounted on acrylic, 500 x 500 mm set of 9
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Yellow Stroke"
2021
inkjet print, aluminum, 430 x 750 x 195 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Purple Stroke"
2021
inkjet print, aluminum, 330 x 580 x 295 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Blue Stroke"
2021
inkjet print, aluminum, 480 x 680 x 265 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Sneakers 1 (Insectautomobilogy)"
2021
direct print on acrylic, 470 x 835 x 35 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Sneakers 2 (Insectautomobilogy)"
2021
direct print on acrylic, 360 x 570 x 35 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Pink and Blue, #blur #sharpness"
2016
archival pigment print, 740 x 500 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Tokyo Tower #blur #sharpness"
2019
archival pigment print, 500 x 335 mm / 740 x 500 mm
Kenta COBAYASHI, "Dougenzaka, #blur #sharpness"
2016
archival pigment print, 500 x 335 mm / 740 x 500 mm
  • video still

Issei Yamagata, "Airbag"
2021
single channel video with sound, 8min. 14sec.
  • video still

Issei YAMAGATA, "Rootless"
2020
single channel video with sound, 7min. 23sec.
  • installation view

  • detail

Issei Yamagata, "Nine eggs (one grave)"
2021
E-ink LCD, single board computer(Raspberry Pi), frame
  • video still

Issei YAMAGATA, "Cameraroll on CRT monitor"
2021
CRT monitor, SD video with sounds, 11min. 29sec.
Press release
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Tokyo, Japan – WAITINGROOM is pleased to announce a group exhibition “Shape of Gaze.02” through May 29th to June 27th 2021, showcasing the works by Taishi Urakawa, Kenta Cobayashi and Issei Yamagata. This exhibition is an extension of the group exhibition “The Shape of Gaze” held in February 2020. The first edition showcased the works by three female painters and it was an exhibition where the eyes of each of the three painters intersected. The second edition shows a group of three male artists, expressing their “gaze” through different mediums: painting, photography, and video.
Exhibiting Artists

Taishi Urakawa

Left:”corner of the room, mold”, 2021, cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 910 × 520 mm
Right:”Untitled”, 2021, cotton on panel, gesso, acrylic, 910 × 520 mm

Born in 1994 in Fukuoka. Graduated from Kyushu Sangyo University – Faculty of Art and Design, Painting, in 2013. Currently lives and works in Fukuoka.
Urakawa is an artist who creates paintings characterized by digital brushstrokes based on information and physical sensations acquired through smartphones. The method of his art-making is to combine images and illustrations collected through online image searches and social networking services with his own photographs to create “landscape paintings”. The paintings made of fragmented reality seem to suggest the impact and changes on our vision in the modern age, where the displays of smartphones and other devices have become the most familiar surface, and the Internet has made it possible to connect to the virtual world at all times easily.
His recent exhibitions include a group exhibition “Taishi Urakawa & Namonaki Sanemasa – It’s not over until it’s over” (2019, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Kumamoto), group exhibition “A part of new flat surface artists, core” (2018, Genron Chaos*Lounge, Tokyo), group exhibition “VOCA 2018” (2018, Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo) winning Ohara Museum Award, solo exhibition “Solo Exhibition” (2016, Gallery Oishi, Fukuoka), solo exhibition “Appearing and vanishing things” (2015, Gallery Monma & Annex, Sapporo) and many others.

Kenta Cobayashi

Left:”Shibuya_1-9, #9squares #smudge”, 2020, inkjet print
Right:”Tokyo Tower #blur #sharpness”, 2019, archival pigment print

Born in Kanagawa in 1992. Graduated from Tokyo Zokei University, Department of Fine Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Painting in 2016. Currently lives and works in Tokyo and Shonan.
The works of Kenta Cobayashi are created by applying bold digital processing to photographs taken by himself. In this exhibition, he will show the two-dimensional works featuring night views of Shibuya and everyday scenes, and three-dimensional works that extract digitally processed portions of photographs, in addition to a new collage series of sneakers and automobiles, which is a development of the work presented in his solo show in 2017. The beauty of curves that we are used to seeing in modern design, such as in shoes, automobiles, and architecture, sometimes stimulate and even incite people’s emotions. Such aesthetic sense is a sense of value born from the advancement of technology, and Cobayashi’s works, which are created with the awareness that he himself is attracted to such beauty, reflect his view of modern cities and daily life that people who seem to be fully in control of technology are, in fact, being manipulated by it.
His recent exhibitions include a solo exhibition “Live in Fluctuations” (2020, Little Big Man Gallery, USA), solo exhibition “The Magician’s Nephew” (2019, rin art association, Gunma), group exhibition “Hello World―For the Post-Human Age” (2018, Art Tower Mito, Mito), solo exhibition “Insectautomobilogy / What is an aesthetic?” (2017, G/P gallery, Tokyo), group exhibition “GIVE ME YESTERDAY” (2016, Fondazione Prada, Milan) and many others. In 2019, he collaborated with Dunhill Spring/Summer Collection 2020 led by Mark Weston, and also worked on the campaign image for Louis Vuitton Men’s Fall/Winter Collection 2019 led by Virgil Abloh.

Issei Yamagata

“Airbag(tentative)”, 2021, video still

Born in Saitama in 1989. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Art, Department of Painting, in 2015.
Many of Issei Yamagata’s works are created using computer graphics based on his experiences in raising animals and plants, playing games and on the Internet. In this exhibition, Yamagata will present several video works, including video installation. The images are a combination of 3DCG-generated landscapes such as tropical plants, bloody beds, train and airplane windows, and the content told by subtitles, but the story continues to progress without any indication of where it is going. Yamagata’s works, in which organic motifs such as eggs, plants, and blood are portrayed by 3DCG with rough grained dots and stripped of detailed information, as well as narratives that seem to have been cut off from their roots as they continue to move without a destination, are presented in a virtual manner, making us aware of the rawness and fluidity of life, including our own, with a sense of reality.
His recent exhibitions include a group exhibition “Silent Category” (2021, Creative Center Osaka, Osaka), solo exhibition “Fasten your seat belt” (2020, TAV Gallery, Tokyo), group exhibition “ENCOUNTERS” (2020, ANB Tokyo, Tokyo), group exhibition “Pangaea on the Screen” (2020, TAV Gallery, Tokyo), group exhibition “Kiritorimederu and Tombstone of the Undead (Or the Age of Cat Videos) 2019-2020” (2019, Parplume Gallery, Kanagawa), group exhibition “the wrong biennale” (2019, Online), group exhibition “party” (2017, Oak Building 3F, Tokyo), group exhibition “optical camouflage” (2017, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo), solo exhibition “Standard Suppressor” (2015, Tokyo Wondersite Hongo, Tokyo) and many others. In 2018, he was awarded the top prize at the Filmmaker 100 – NEWAWARDS.
Artist
浦川大志
Taishi Urakawa
小林健太
Kenta Cobayashi
山形一生
Issei Yamagata