After beginning as a self-taught painter who practiced in the streets, Ko-Hey! Arikawa has grown into an artist who attracts as many as 12,000 yearly visitors to exhibitions in his home prefecture of Okinawa. Having previously created pieces in a range of styles, from flat paintings to large scale installations, Arikawa unveiled his vision of “the future of painting,” Monolith, in 2022. This exhibition will feature the work and focus on “physicality and materiality” as its concept.
MONOLITH No.006
2022
h162×w112 cm
Mixed media
As contemporary society continues to experience change at a dizzying pace, we human beings are both horrified by and attracted to new technology. Although we may accept these new developments, as long as we remain human, are we not also paradoxically filled with the powerful and crudely primitive desires that mark all living things?
Painting, too, is a medium that will remain in the realm of the physical and material, rather than that of technology.
The pieces presented in “Monolith” explore such questions about the future of painting as their theme, and the title, “Monolith,” is defined as an object of unknown nature and origin.
06/09/2024(fri) - 17/09/2024(tue)
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