ARTWORK
OBJECT # 12
Artist Comment
The twelfth work in the series of paintings made by combining images, particularly stones. This time I painted stones and woodchips that I found while strolling through Nagai Park, in addition to stones brought to me by locals, particularly children. Starting with a rough sketch, it gradually morphed into an image of the impatient wait for spring. (It was freezing!) It would delight me to see these fallen pebbles that would normally not catch anyone’s attention became a huge painting, surprise someone, become commonplace without explanation, or even to have someone suddenly blurt out “what in the world is this?” while laughing.
About the work
simo’s OBJECT series will appear on the HANASAKA MURAL. The gallery will see the pebbles found around our town scaled up into a massive mural and simo’s unique use of color and obsession with detail poured wholeheartedly into these works. Within a limited time period, simo took stones gathered by locals and used them as inspiration for the creation of these murals.
ARTIST
simo (Kyosuke Shimogori)
simo was born in Ōita Prefecture in 1988 and currently lives in Osaka Prefecture. He is a painter and a muralist.
He is also a member of the artist units WHOLE9, SIMIZ-PAMO and KAOMANGAI.
His focus is mainly on materials in nature, and the colors, shapes, reflection and refraction of light found in sceneries containing such materials. The images he collects are interlaced on the canvas and connected in an abstract way.
simo does not stick to a particular style but continuously experiments with objects and phenomena that attract him at the time to paint in a pleasing way.
In recent years, he has been developing series such as 'shape of lights', overlaid depictions of light on shaped canvases, and 'OBJECT', a display of original objects created by combining images of stones collected as his life’s work.
Major works
・2023: Private Exhibition ‘INSIDE and OUT’ at CASO Lounge
・2020: Created murals for SEMBA MURAL PARK
・2020: Provided visual works for the 30th anniversary of the founding of FM Oita