Toru Kuwakubo
Out of Noise

Thursday, June 3, 2010 — Sunday, June 27, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, June 3, from 5 pm

Gallery Hyundai is pleased to announce its second show of the works by a Japanese artist Toru Kuwakubo (1978-) since the previous representation in Seoul from 2007. The exhibition entitled Out of Noise will consist of 23 of his recent paintings, which the artist has created in the past year for his solo show at Gallery Hyundai. The major works include his large-scale oil paintings that are truthful to his Impressionist-inspired brushstrokes and bright palette, along with his recent canvases that began to introduce darker and richer tone that rather resembles a Fauvist palette. In addition, Out of Noise will introduce a series of vase paintings from 2009 to the audience in Seoul. By juxtaposing surreal elements with the personal narrative, the artist delicately interweaves reality and fiction. Apart from the animation-inspired works that dominate the mainstream Japanese art, Kuwakubo’s painting offers a different perspective on the contemporary art scene of Japan with his personal reinterpretations of art historical references and stylistic devices of the modernist.