8/3/2023 0 Comments Faceless artI’d like to keep experimenting with this method. Even if it’s a regular picture taken on my iPhone, it transforms into a work of art when it’s reconstructed into a painting. It was interesting to see how even though they’re a scene from real life, when you make it into a painting, the difference between reality and art grows. ――Is the method of painting from photographs something you’ve been doing for a while?ĪUTO MOAI:No, this is my first time doing it. I think that’s why the people in the paintings look like ghosts. The perspective of a buoy, the theme of this exhibition-the feeling of not knowing what’s the sea and what’s the shore, what’s here and what’s there-is connected to that. I was reminded of what people in the old days used to say about a photograph stealing your soul. Also, the people in the picture look like they’re people who passed away, even though they’re alive. People can’t prove their own existence unless someone else is standing in front of them, right? In that way, I think even though the person in front of me is the one in the picture, you could say that I, the photographer, am also in the picture. There’s a sense of rawness, but at the same time, parts of it are hazy, almost like a ghost…ĪUTO MOAI:With Buoy, I wanted to paint about human relationships and distance, so I created these works based off of photos I took on my iPhone while hanging out with people. ――It stood out to me that your work in Buoy uses different color palettes and brush strokes compared to your work up until now. Could you tell me about what anonymity means to you, and why you chose that theme for your & PUNK GALLERY ©AUTO MOAI Anonymity is an important theme in your work, and I think it connects to your main motif of people without faces. ――Your B GALLERY exhibition was titled Anonymous. On the other hand, my work at CALM & PUNK was based on living people and human connections, painted in reference to photographs. With my work at B GALLERY, I imagined people who were inhuman and symbolic, and painted them in a pop style with acrylics. Could you tell me about these exhibitions in relation to one another?ĪUTO MOAI:Both of the exhibitions feature portraits, so I thought it would be interesting to differentiate them through the presentation and texture. ――You had two solo exhibitions at the same time going on, one at B GALLERY and another CALM & PUNK. ――So first, why do you work as an anonymous artist?ĪUTO MOAI: I don’t think that information regarding my age, gender, appearance, or stature are necessary for people to look at my work. I think that the idea of an individual within society is really vague and fragile.
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