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Artwork ©︎ Enrico Isamu Ōyama

Photo ©︎ Go Sugimoto

The “Hiraku Project” is conceived as a series of exhibitions introducing contemporary artworks by Pola Art Foundation Grant recipients. The exhibitions are to be held at the Atrium Gallery, recently established to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Pola Museum of Art. “Hiraku” translates as ‘open,’ in the sense of ‘responsive to new possibilities.’ We are pleased to present Enrico Isamu Ōyama’s Kairosphere as the 8th exhibition in our HIRAKU Project.

The exhibition title, Kairosphere, is a portmanteau coined by Ōyama from kairos, meaning ‘time’ and the suffix sphere meaning ‘realm’ or ‘amorphous gaseous layer’ such as in ‘stratosphere’ or ‘atmosphere.’ Further, ‘kairos’ is a subjective concept of time, referring to Ōyama’s internal sense of time as he creates his works. Kairosphere, then, denotes a gently expanding spatio-temporal space.

 

Based on this concept, this exhibition presents milestones of Ōyama’s work along with the painting FFIGURATI #207 (2018) that can be viewed as the culmination of all his past production activities. We hope that by presenting together in this exhibition the documentation of Ōyama’s first proposed public space work Keio Shiki Senior High School Mural (2003), FFIGURATI #9 (2009) where QTS painted on acrylic cubes seems to float in space, and FFIGURATI #245 (2019) site-specific installation for the Pola Museum of Art, we can create a new ‘time space’ environment, or rather a ‘worksphere,’ spanning Ōyama’s past and present works.

Enrico Isamu Ōyama

 

Enrico Isamu Ōyama is currently based in New York City. He became interested in aerosol writing (graffiti) in public spaces such as subway cars and buildings. By removing elements such as letters and color from its visual expression, Ōyama extracted a type of dynamic line called Quick Turn and developed it into what he calls his Quick Turn Structure (QTS). Over the past 15 years he has been expanding the scope of his production to include various mediums such as canvas, walls, found objects, and clothing (in collaboration with COMME des GARÇONS for the 2012 SS collection).

FFIGURATI #9

2019

Acrylic aerosol paint on acrylic cube 3

cubes: each, 182×91×40 cm

Artwork ©︎ Enrico Isamu Ōyama

FFIGURATI #207

2018

Airbrush, acrylic aerosol paint, latex paint and sumi-ink on canvas mounted on aluminum stretcher 244×914 cm

Artwork ©︎ Enrico Isamu Ōyama

Photo ©︎ Go Sugimoto

 

Keio Shiki

Senior High School Mural

2003

Artwork ©︎ Enrico Isamu Ōyama

Photo ©︎ Shu Nakagawa

 

1. FFIGURATI #9 2009 Acrylic aerosol paint on acrylic cube 3
cubes: each, 182×91×40 cm Collection of the Artist
2. FFIGURATI #207 2018 Airbrush, acrylic aerosol paint, latex paint and sumi-ink on canvas mounted on aluminum stretcher 244×914 cm Collection of the Artist
3. FFIGURATI #245 2019 Inkjet print on sticker sheet on marble wall
4. Keio Shiki Senior High School Mural Video Filmed and Edited by Shu Nakagawa

HIRAKU PROJECT VOL.8

Enrico Isamu Ōyama

Kairosphere

Mar. 23(Sat.), 2019 – Jul. 28(Sun), 2019

Organized by：Pola Museum of Art, Pola Art Foundation

Venue: Atrium Gallery, Pola Museum of Art