Gallery I:
YOSUKE UENO
‘Beautiful Noise’
Opening Reception:
Saturday, September 2 from 6-10pm
On view September 2 – September 23, 2023
In Japan, we have an art of repairing named “kintsugi,” that repairs broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with powdered gold. Not to dispose or hide but make breakage part visible by decorating them with gold, it treats breakage and repair as beauty. In there exists a called reborn aesthetic. Since the ancient times, Japanese people has been admiring beauty in such incompleteness of objects. In other words, this art tells that to being in this world equals to lose and hurt. So, breakage, damage, and noise is a proof of existence.
This time, in all the artworks, I put noise by running brushes. This noise plays as a role of punctuation marks and gives artworks a surge of energy which comes put to be a perfect harmony.
At this point, I am sensing a feeling that I’ve come to where I can say that my artwork reached out to supreme expression. It’s been thirty years since I had my first solo show at the age of sixteen. What I seek for is not to paint beautifully, but to make artwork which can touch a sense of “being exist”. I have always tried to change my painting styles. And here I am so far.
‘Beautiful Noise’ carries creation and destruction, life and death at the same time in it. That’s what I believe.
About Yosuke Ueno:
Born in 1977 and currently based in Chiba, Japan, Yosuke Ueno is an internationally renowned self-taught artist. His art is capable of taking the viewer on a magical ride, deep in the worlds that blends between real and surreal, full of symbols of the Eastern philosophical tradition and icons of contemporary media culture, both Japanese and Western.
Ueno’s large canvases are sprinkled with quotes and references to art history that intertwine with the modern perception of the fantastic. Each element of his compositions is actually a symbol that carries a message full of positivity and cosmic vitality. Ueno’s work has been exhibited in some of the most prestigious contemporary art institutions in Asia, such as the Shimoni-Seki Museum and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo and in international art galleries the world over.