Kano Nakamura《Dream of the Butterfly #1》

Kano Nakamura

Title: Dream of the Butterfly #1

Year: 2026

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

Size: 318 × 820 × 20 mm

Price: ¥143,000 (tax incl.)

Kano Nakamura

1999 Born in Tokyo

2022 Graduated from the Oil Painting Course, Department of Painting, Faculty of Art and Design, Musashino Art University

2025 Completed MFA in Oil Painting, Fine Art Major, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts

Concept

I build images using duplication and inversion, operations that digital tools make easy. By chance, the results sometimes come to resemble the regularity and structure of a plant putting out leaves and flowers. Repeating the same shape over and over through duplication evokes sound, or music. Making gradations out of RGB color can call to mind a rainbow, a sunset, a cosmic phenomenon. At times the forms begin to look like parts of a body, or cells.

I often take inspiration not only from plants, insects and natural phenomena such as rainbows and sunsets, but also from the visual effects seen on screens, in animation, film and music videos. Yet no single work has a specific motif. Even when something begins to look like something, I build the image so that it lands in an ambiguous place: seemingly concrete, and yet not.

That it looks like a plant and looks like the cosmos, yet is neither. That it looks printed, yet is drawn by hand. That copy and original stand side by side at the same moment. That it looks like an abstract painting, yet may be a depiction of an iPad screen. That it is not digital or physical, but digital and physical and neither of the two.

Crossing boundaries in this way, and remaining ambiguous, is for me both a resistance to existing categories and a process of searching out new ways of being.

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This work is on view and available for purchase in "grid5", the exhibition marking biscuit gallery's fifth anniversary.

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