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Tatiana Kourochkina Gallery presents 'double', the first solo exhibition in Barcelona of the Japanese artist Jun Azumatei. The work of Azumatei consists of two main series, 'Float' and 'Double Float', in addition to five other paintings.
Jun Azumatei has been working on the 'Float' and 'Double Float' series since 2000. The artist uses a unique technique for these series, where he creates by rendering a photograph of the sky or the nature with an ink-jet printer on a wood surface and later applying acrylic paint and aqueous varnish. Finally sanding the dried surface, eliminating thick layers form from the paint and varnish. Due to the smoothness of the surface and the image, the paintings simply look like a photograph capturing a beautiful moment of the ever-changing expression, as pointed by Ayako Miyajima.
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The concept of memory is a persistent theme in Azumatei's work. This also explains why his works are composed of two layers: the 'objective' photograph on the bottom layer that corresponds to the record, and the 'subjective' multiple layers of paint and varnish that are applied over it, which are equivalent to the memory.
When looked closely, one may ask, 'Is this a photograph or a painting?' From this question arises the title of the exhibition, 'double'. In addition to the doubt of whether it is a photo or a painting, Azumatei sometimes turns the artworks, causing it to have no certain direction.
Entrada actualizada el el 26 may de 2016
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