OCCHIONI ROSSI - Naoya Takahara

NAOYA TAKAHARA
Occhioni rossi (Big Red Eyes)

2003

Inaugurated on March 7th, 2008 until December 20th, 2008

Curated by Antonio Capaccio
Naoya’s intent is to create a conditional freedom for the artist. Working with a PC, copying various times the same initial pattern makes the approximation margin very high. Technology fulfilled a radical process of impoverishment and linguistical reduction that releases the artist from its mastery. This same technology can sometimes guide the artist through a route of freedom and possibilities. Making mistakes is part of the process of creating an artwork. The artist is required to acknowledge and welcome rather than to invent. An incident, lapsus, misunderstanding, short circuit of our thoughts, uncertainty of the hand. The unspoken condition is that there is no need to drift apart from our mistake, but better to embrace it for what it is. Following a trail combining and trading fragility and exactitude, rigor and ecstasy, suspension, lightness, play. In this paradoxical adventure of impalpable senses, we find a different and unforeseen beauty. For a kaftan world that ‘can be advised good only where it was created.’, or maybe as Gottfried Benn ‘when she looks outside her house window, she manages to identify herself in a God that created gentle things as plants and trees? Mice, plague, noise, desperation – yes, - but flowers?’

(Antonio Capaccio)

Naoya Takahara was born in Ehime (Japan) in 1954. After graduating in arts (1976) at Tama Arts University of Tokyo he travels through Europe finally settling in Rome at the end of the ‘70s. Main personal exhibitions: 1987 Jartrakor, Rome / 1995 Janus Avivson gallery, London / 1996 Sala 1, Romw; Ex SNIA Viscosa, Rome / 1997 Bianca Pilat, Milan (curated by Trevi Flash Art Museum)/ 2000 Janus Avivson gallery, Paris / 2003 Laboratory Museum of Comtemporany art, Rome; Erica Fiorentini, Rome / 2004 Lift Gallery, Rome / 2005 Palazzo della Corgna, Città della Pieve (with Fabio Mauri); Wunderkammern, Spello / 2008 Brecce, Rome; Color Museum, Tokyo. Main collective exhibitions: 1987 Sculptors and galleries of Rome, Sala 1, Rome / 1991 Simultaneità, Museum of Rome Palazzo Braschi, Rome / 1992 Lunami report in 91, Lunami gallery, Tokyo; Japan and Italy new generations, Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna, Istituto Giapponese di cultura, Rome / 1993 11 Japanese artists in Europe, Atrantis middle gallery by Janus Avivson, London; Disgregant-Aggregante, Palazzo Racani Arroni, Spoleto / 1994 Identità e rappresentazioni cartografiche, Museo nazionale preistorico etnografico L. Pigolini, Roma; Festival dei due mondi, Galleria comunale d’Arte moderna, Spoleto / 1995 Incantesimi, Bomarzo / 1996 1º premio Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi (assegnazione di un premio); Under anden himmel, Triennale, Copenhagen / 1998 Lavori in corso 3, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma; Biennale dei parchi, natura e ambiente, Roma / 1999 Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, Spoleto / 2000 Recenti acquisizioni, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma; Paesaggio dopo la battaglia, XLV mostra internazionale d’arte contemporanea, Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea, Termoli / 2001 Le Tribù dell’Arte, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma; “7” Fazio, Karpüseeler, Micheli, Takahara, Hyunnart studio ed Equilibri Precari, Roma / 2002 Ad occhi aperti, Hyunnart studio, Roma OUSIA: spaziomateriatempo Bonoli, Palmieri, Takahara, Albornoz Palace Hotel, Spoleto / 2004 Roma Punto Uno, Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, Seoul.../ 2005 Viaggio in Italia, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo; Viaggio in Italia, Sala 1, Rom / 2006 Acquisti e Doni, Galleria Comunale d’arte Moderna, Rome

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