BnA Alter Museum will present Shintaro Matsuo's solo exhibition "kefu".
As a painter, Matsuo has been creating paintings since 2018 using extremely small painted pieces that have a unique texture, and arranges them, just a few centimeters in size, into space.
By placing the miniature paintings in space, each small screen affects the movement of sight and eyeballs. Something that sticks to the wall like dust changes your line of sight, or makes you stop and stare. Focusing on such sensations, Matsuo creates works based on moments of sensual strangeness where one suddenly feels fetish and materiality in the clutter of everyday life.
We hope that you enjoy the compressed images in the tiny paintings and the expanded images in the exhibition space at various scales.
Matsuo has also collected and reconstructed sound materials from various places. We will be holding an opening event on September 30th, inviting artists who have been involved in these activities.
This time, we are planning to invite video artist Reiji Saito and sound artist and designer Takamitsu Ota to open an experimental exhibition that will include talks and performances.
Artist. Born 1984 Nagasaki,Japan. Completed oil painting course at Musashino Art University Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2011.
He creates paintings using a miscellaneous approach. As for his recent works, he creates works in which he creates paintings using extremely small pieces painted with a unique texture and arranges them in a space. He also produces audio works and performs live under the same name.
Main Exhibitions, section 16 Block f (group exhibition, Sasaki garden/New York 2019), Puroobu (group exhibition, Switch point/Tokyo2019). Audio work includes, 20:52 (Album Cacao/UK 2017), 14:17 (EP Wasabi Tapes 2017).