Yoshiki Nakahara
My work as an abstract painter is developed through the last many years both in Japan and in Denmark. My biggest inspiration has stemmed from artists such as Jasper Johns, Kandinsky and one of the trail blazing dadaists Marcel Duchamp.
When I first came to Denmark in the early eighties I became acquainted with Asger Jorn’s pictorial art which immediately impressed me with its gay, lively, and naive brushstroke and clear colours. I have often worked with the same choice of colours because Asger Jorn’s work with colours gave me inspiration and many ideas as to how I could work.
I mostly express myself in a non-figurative way where the inspiration from Norse Mythology added with a dash of Japanese poetry comes into view - all done with a loving and pensive brushstroke.
Most of my work is in oil – ”rich as chocolate in their daubed density yet peacock-like in their subtle brilliance. Various layers of luminous dark and pastel combined with the vivid daubings, splashes, and swipes that generally form the ’face’ of the work” through wich I try to create ”an immediate sense of depth and dimension that only grows with the amount of time you devote to each one. The subtlety and complexty of colour mixing that inhabits this depth are the elements that work immediately on the imagination, conjuring up as many images, memories and phantoms as there are people who see them (David Stormer, Tokyo)”.
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