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Masaki Yada
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Degree: MA Fine Art Chelsea
University: BA Fine Art Central Saint Martins
Graduation Year: 2006
New Blood Art Statement
Yada's work has been obtained by The Zabludowicz Collection, Alison Myners, and private collections throughout the U.K, China and the USA. Yada habitually creates abstract paintings, exploring paint in its full range of textures from translucent inkiness to thick impasto. The paintings achieve a containment of elements both tangled and discreet, an embodiment of the painter's thematic concern with the idea of the city. Yada’s practice has taken a startling turn in mysterious amorphous images offset against a dark plane of colour, suggestive of new life forms, subterranean and self-created.
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Artist Statement
The word 'layers' has been the centre of my art practice since 2004. There are many layers composed in my painting, both physical ones, which are created by paint impastos, stains, scratches, and visual ones, which are often images of objects and people taken from newspapers.The word 'layers' is equivocal, and has many referents. In modern society, people use different personas in communication, depending on whom they are speaking to. The word can refer to hierarchy and class systems. We are living in the age of classification. By race, finance, occupation, sex, living area, marital status, etc we are all categorized in a certain order by society. The way that the imagery in my painting is composed resembles the structure of modern society, in that layers of different elements are tangled within a contained area, be it within a rectangle or among people. I am inspired by the influence of the city, a space where numerous events occur simultaneously. I have started using second-hand information from the mass media, as a methodological embodiment of what Jean Baudrillard says in "Simulacra" that "this modern society is saturated with the representation of reality and it has become reality. Everything occurs in the society is simulation; Hyper reality."
My practice is also dedicated to the exploration of visual sensation and the act of creating visually compelling work, combining the idea of painting as the representation of an object with the idea of a painting as a liberation from the object. When spontaneity and the time-consuming visual description of objects and people meet, the layers create a certain sense of space that is akin to the uncertainty in modern society. My main aim is to explore ways of mediating those different elements; the thematic and the visual, to create an aesthetic moment through layers.
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Solo Exhibitions
2006, Layers, Window Gallery, Central Saint Martins
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006, XHIBIT 06, University of the Arts, London
2005, Ruthless Peckham, Exhibition space at Copeland Industrial Park, London
2005, Gloaming, Candid Arts Trust Gallery, London
Selected Prizes
2006, Short Listed, Celesta Art Prize, London
2001, Short Listed, Hitachioota Painting Prize, Japan
2001, Short Listed, Museum of ‘MIURA’ Painting Award