FEATURED ARTIST: Naohiko Kuriyaki — Grand Prize at the National Art Center. A Fukuoka Artist Who Returns to the Pre-Pictorial
ART & DAY is proud to introduce a compelling new voice from Fukuoka, Japan.
Naohiko Kuriyaki (栗焼直彦).
On full-sheet paper (788 × 1092 mm) — larger than a broadsheet newspaper — layers of crayon, colour pencil, sign marker and tempera converge. Religious imagery, raw figure drawing and script-like marks interweave in a way that is unlike anything else. The epica-after series occupies entirely its own territory.
"Painting may have died — but drawing cannot."
A graduate of Kyushu University's Faculty of Design (Design Strategy, 2014), Kuriyaki takes this proposition as his point of departure. Rather than moving beyond painting's supposed death, he moves before it — back to the pre-pictorial modes that preceded the conventions of Western easel painting: icons, Yamato-e, prehistoric cave drawings. What these have in common is figure drawing without a model, reverse perspective, and the undivided unity of drawing and writing.
栗焼直彦 | 《epica-after-choucho》 — ¥117,000
Grand Prize at the National Art Center, Tokyo
栗焼直彦 | 《epica-after-mariasama》 — ¥117,000
栗焼直彦 | 《epica-after-OuchiMuubumento》 — ¥117,000
Three original large-format drawings by Naohiko Kuriyaki are now available at ART & DAY. Each is one-of-a-kind. Worldwide DDP shipping included.