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Rainbow Painting series

2021, Oil on canvas

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Rainbow Painting series
2021, Oil on canvas

“What appears to be one, if closer inspection is possible, also appears to be a teeming, jostling group, each member slightly different from the next, separated, yet side by side.
This place might be a continent or a country; it might be a virtual network.
In any case, it is beautiful.
Group Portrait
Needed now: Not individual portraits, I thought, but portraits of people-in-plural, of groups.”

The oil paintings in this series are pale gradations of color made up of countless points. Taking each point as a person, the artist has chosen a slightly different color for each “individual,” allowing the work to coalesce into a portrait of a rainbow-colored crowd. The points are so crowded together on the canvas that they may seem connected, but in fact each is independent, with its own unique color, so that the whole becomes a rainbow.
Mixed grey may appear to be a gradation in pale grey at first glance, but when the viewer notices the individual points that constitute it, it becomes clear that this canvas, too, is adorned by a rainbow. As the titles indicate, each work is like a bird’s eye view of a different country, region, or community, serving as an opportunity to reflect on the individual and the collective, and the differences and similarities of our existence.

Quoted from a handout of “EUGENE STUDIO After the rainbow (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2021)

Group portrait (Hitonoyo), 2021
Oil on canvas
291.5 × 212 cm

Group portrait (Surrounded surging crowd of people), 2021
Oil on canvas
788 × 292 cm

Left: Group portrait (Where are you?), 2021
Oil on canvas, 294 × 214 cm
Right: Group portrait (Rainbow), 2021
Oil on canvas, 244 × 184 cm

Rainbow Painting series, 2021
Oil on canvas
Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Rainbow Painting series, 2021
Oil on canvas
Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Rainbow Painting series, 2021
Oil on canvas
Installation view at Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

Group portrait (Study of Nation), 2021
Oil on canvas
18 × 14 cm