This time, I focused on women of the opposite sex.
They are the same as people, but they are different beings.
I created this work with the idea that there is some unknown part that might stray from reality and become fantastical. / Yusuke Matsuo
MATSUO Yusuke Biography
1979 Born in Osaka
2002 Graduated from Takarazuka University of Art and Design, Department of Sculpture
Solo Exhibition
2008 Takashimaya Osaka Art Salon
2011 Takashimaya Osaka Gallery NEXT
2014 Takashimaya Osaka Gallery NEXT
2015 "Miniature Garden Rhapsody" Gallery Morning
2015 "The City is Imagination" Takashimaya Osaka Gallery NEXT
2016 "City Color Lullaby" Gallery Morning
2017 "Blues of the Formless" Gallery Morning
2023 "Boy" Gallery Morning
Others
2002~ Numerous group exhibitions in Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, etc., including the National Exhibition
2010 Kyoto Gion Installation of a chicken statue for the Ayakasaboko festival
2015 Rinpa 400th Anniversary Exhibition "Selected New Artists" - Rinpa FOREVER - Kyoto Museum of Art
2014 2017 Kyoten
2019 "FACE III" (Gallery Morning)
2022 "Enga Nakanoshima Blues II" (Gallery Morning)
Awards
Kansai National Exhibition Kansai National Painting Award (2003), Kansai National Exhibition Newcomer Award (2004), Toyonaka City Exhibition Mayor's Award (2005),
Kokuten Newcomer Award (2008), Kyoten Mayor's Award (2014), All Kansai Exhibition 3rd Place (2014)
8th Takamado Prince Memorial Netsuke Competition Excellence Award (2016)
I once heard that if you carve a man who is the same as yourself, the work will be heavy and introspective, and you will feel pain. This time, the theme is "inner self = hiding" for a female figure of a different gender. You can feel "strength" from the expression. The invitation piece "Decorating the Moon" was exhibited in its unfinished form at a solo exhibition in 2017.
/gallery morning
*Some of the pieces are sensitive, so photography is prohibited. Also, photography of sketches of unfinished works is prohibited. Please ask.