"In the uncanny world of Yuichi Hirako, the relationship between humans, nature, and the built environment plays out in vibrant color and unique proportions. The Tokyo-based artist creates large-scale sculptures, paintings, and installations that explore coexistence, often through compositions that appear crowded with domestic objects, food, cats, and figures whose faces are obscured by cartoonish head coverings shaped like trees or antlers."
"ORIGIN, Hirako's expansive solo exhibition at the Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, invites us to enter a surreal, almost Alice in Wonderland- like realm. From salon-style hangings of numerous paintings and sculptures along an undulating plywood surface to a giant quadriptych-a four-part canvas-the artist's pieces play with perception and urge us toward curiosity. Recurring, anonymous characters populate Hirako's otherworldly settings."
Yuichi Hirako produces large-scale sculptures, paintings, and installations that stage a surreal interplay between humans, nature, and built environments. Work often clusters domestic objects, food, cats, and anonymous figures whose faces are hidden by cartoonish head coverings shaped like trees or antlers. ORIGIN presents salon-style hangings along undulating plywood, a giant quadriptych, courtyard and plaza interventions, and immersive compositions that play with perception. Scenes include a vast banquet table with fruits, bakery items, possibly live sea creatures, relaxed cats, books, and floral arrangements. A massive bookcase combines potted plants and objects that sometimes defy structural logic, like a tree growing behind shelves.
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