Hiroya Kurata's debut solo exhibition 'Waiting' features paintings that capture the quiet intensities of domestic life. Figures are presented alone in moments of introspection within gently distorted surroundings. The works merge elements of landscape and vignette, utilizing a visual language that blends manga styles with calm compositional techniques. Light plays a crucial role, enhancing the emotional charge of each scene. Through oil paints, Kurata conveys a sense of suspended temporality, encouraging viewers to reflect on duration rather than action in each carefully crafted image.
Hiroya Kurata's paintings isolate the quiet intensities of the everyday, depicting figures often alone in moments of drift or stillness, amidst gently distorted environments.
Kurata's visual language fuses the stylised contours of manga with the compositional calm of landscape painting, creating works that bridge animation and atmosphere.
The exhibition's title, 'Waiting', emphasizes suspended temporality and images attuned to duration, rather than traditional scenes of waiting.
In 'Arcadia', Kurata captures a young girl in a serene, contemplative moment, contrasting her stillness with the architectural features surrounding her.
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