Artwork by Masaru Kurose
Every time I go to see Masaru Kurose's exhibition at Gallery KAI his artworks become more adventurous (thats a very good outcome for an artist) into what a painting might be experienced as and in this exhibition, they take in the gallery walls behind the image due to the paint traces being placed on clear vinyl providing a great sensory experience.
Kurose appears to have taken up the spirit of adventurous praxis where some of the Gutai artists had finished in there journey outwards into their own uncharted aesthetic horizons. But Kurose has moved outwards towards his own unseen aesthetic idiosyncratic avant-garde horizons, for his risky ways of making and learning about what art might be experienced as is certainly revealed within these artworks on show at the KAI Gallery.
Another issue of what is so wonderfully refreshing about kurose's artworks is the lack of a commercial factor, it appears purely about his studio praxis and what he can achieved, he really doesn't seem to care about the economic aspect of his painting.
And that is what ones really senses about some of the Kobe avant-garde artists, they've no fear of painting and living/working hard as long as the art is good and similarly that goes for the many galleries that support them, its impressive to experience and very audacious to live out that's for sure.
These current painting of Kurose are probably his best so far as for what I have experienced in they way he uses the hues from the paint traces as light travels through the acrylic coloured traces on the surface of the vinyl onto on the wall behind, making the artworks no longer static paintings but transgressing into some kind of kinetic painterly /sculpture its very beautiful and at the same time strange to experience, for one can view the artwork in front and behind the frame. This was a very good exhibition and one looks forward to Kurose next!
Link to Kurose's web page
http://www.from-to.jp/art/
