Nana Funo paints in restrained colors the sensitive motifs that are unique to young girls. Her repertoire includes images such as hooked needle crochet lace patterns, or a pattern of plants on an embroidery frame like round surface painted with dyestuff, gesso and acrylic paint layered to create a distinctive matiere. She has also worked on a series of traveling images, depicting symbolic architecture and scenery from various countries painted in relief-like texture.
Yutaka Watanabe paints a landscape in strange composition that mixed the interior and exterior of a house. In his series called the “ark” that implies the retreat, plants and furniture are mixed and are bent in squares, repeatedly having silent dialogue in front of a backdrop like house or inside the house.
The combination of this coloration and motif reminds one of the Futurist paintings.
Nana Funo was born in Shizuoka Prefecture in 1983. She graduated from the Osaka University of Arts majoring in oil painting in 2006. Then completed the M.F.A. in Kyoto City University of Arts in 2008. She won the Tomio Koyama Judge Award at Art Award Tokyo (Gyoukou Chika Gallery, Tokyo) in 2008.
Watanabe Yutaka was born in Tokyo in 1981. He graduated from the Musashino Art University, Tokyo majoring in oil painting in 2005. And completed the M.F.A. in 2007. He was selected to show in a public invitational show“WONDER SEEDS”(exhibited at Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya) in March 2008.
Both artists are having their first solo shows at Tomio Koyama Gallery.
Tomio Koyama Gallery
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