HOLBEIN ART FAIR 2022 3rd — Featured Artist: 福本 健一郎
福本 健一郎
Born in 1986 in Hiroshima Prefecture.
In 2014, completed the Master's Program at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Now based in Tokyo, creating paintings and sculptures.
Drawing inspiration from the forms and colors of natural-history encyclopedias across eras and cultures, the tapestries of various peoples, microorganisms of soil and sea, and the houseplants around him, he creates his work while reflecting on the relationship between humankind's creations and nature that has continued since ancient times.
In recent years, he has incorporated recycled and Japanese washi paper into his paintings, and combined varied materials and textures in his sculpture—time-worn wood such as driftwood and salvaged timber, and ceramics fired from clay he kneads himself.
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[Biography]
Education
2011 Graduated in Oil Painting, Department of Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
2014 Completed the Oil Painting course, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts
(2012-13 Exchange student, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore)
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Fragments and Vessels of Earth and Sky (SFT Gallery / The National Art Center, Tokyo)
2019 Fragments and Shingles (Grenier / Tokyo)
2017 List Satheby's featured by Kenichiro Fukumoto (List Sotheby's / Tokyo)
2015 Tokyo Wonder Site Emerging (Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya / Tokyo)
Tokyo Wonder Wall (Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building No. 1, 3F South Sky Corridor / Tokyo)
2014 Dear Friends (JIKKA / Tokyo)
2013 Solo Exhibition (KIZUKI＋LIM / Singapore)
Group Exhibitions
2021 Yanbaru Art Festival (former Shioya Elementary School, Ogimi Village, northern Okinawa Island / Okinawa)
2019 Blum&Poe (3331 Art Fair / Tokyo)
2018-19 Yanbaru Art Festival (former Shioya Elementary School, Ogimi Village, northern Okinawa Island / Okinawa)
2017 Scenary Poem by Kenichiro Fukumoto x Stephen Wong Chun Hei
(PROJECT FULFILL ART SPACE / Taipei)
After images... (iPreciation / Singapore)
2014 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2014 (Gyoko-dori Underground Gallery / Tokyo)
2013 Cross Encounter: A collaboration of Artists from Singapore and Japan
(Japan Creative Centre / Singapore)
2010 BRUTUS x Hidari Zingaro (Hidari Zingaro / Tokyo)
Contemporary Art Exhibition of Current Art Students, Produced by Mr. X (Kaikai Kiki Gallery / Tokyo)
Awards
2014 Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2014, Yusaku Imamura Prize
Tokyo Wonder Wall Award
Artist in Residence
2016 NA Art House, Jakarta (Indonesia)
KUNCH, Yogyakarta (Indonesia)
[Works]
Untitled #01
Pen, colored pencil and pastel and oil stick on used paper with frame
H790×W590(mm)
2022
Untitled #02
Pen, colored pencil and pastel on paper with frame
H760×W555(mm)
2022
Untitled #03
Pen, colored pencil and pastel on paper and canvas laid on panel with artist frame
H727×W530×D30(mm)
2022
Untitled #04
Pen, colored pencil and pastel, gold leaf on used paper and canvas laid on panel with artist frame
H800×W600×D30(mm)
2022
Untitled #05
Pen, colored pencil and pastel on used paper and canvas laid on panel with artist frame
H910×W652×D30(mm)
2022
Untitled
ceramic
H140×W80×D75(mm)
2018
Fragment of Earth and Sky #8
acrylic, iron, wood and drifted wood
H393×W67×D67(mm)
2018
Fragment of Earth and Sky #24
ceramic
H284×W122×D111(mm)
2018
Fragment of Earth and Sky #53
acrylic, iron, wood and drifted wood
H420×W98×D95(mm)
2019
Fragment of Earth and Sky #64
acrylic, iron, wood and drifted wood
H455×W76×D76(mm)
2019
Fragment of Earth and Sky #74
ceramic, iron and wood
H175×W75×D75(mm)
2020
Fragment of Earth and Sky #69
acrylic, iron, ceramic, wood and drifted wood
H290×W80×D45(mm)
2020
Fragment of Earth and Sky #71
ceramic, iron and wood
H260×W75×D75(mm)
2020
福本 健一郎 — View All Works ▽
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[Installation Views]
[Staff Comment]
In Fukumoto's works, plants and creatures in a variety of colors are rendered with a gentle touch, giving off a tender atmosphere ✨ Their coloring brims with a distinctive air reminiscent of ethnic textiles, and every piece carries a weight that lets you feel a sense of history! Gazing at the many plants—some real, some born of imagination—is wonderfully soothing! His three-dimensional works depict creatures like fairies of nature; every one of them is endearing and comforting ✨(Mogi)
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