Masayuki Arai

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Primo Marella Gallery Lugano is pleased to announce for the first time the solo exhibition of MASAYUKI ARAI exclusively conceived for the gallery spaces.

Masayuki Arai was born in 1984 in Wisconsin, currently he lives and works in Ibaraki prefecture, Kanto Region, Japan. He completed Master's course in Fine Art at Aichi Prefectural University of Fine Arts and Music in 2011 and his works have been shown in Aichi Triennale 2013 and VOCA 2014. His work process has continually involved printing out and pasting images collected from the Internet onto a canvas and then expanding them out imaginatively. In this exhibition, we will show some of Arai’s newest works.
In recent years, Arai has started to peel off the photographs that were pasted onto the canvas, leaving the outer imagined, painted parts intact. In repeating this action, pasting new photographs onto it and then drawing and extending the outer parts, the image becomes entangled and layered. With his process of capturing the representations of reality “like paintings” Arai transforms the units and forms of the use of the paint itself. The paintings, created by dripping paint from a syringe, move back and forth between image and physical matter depending on the distance from which they are viewed. This gives a sense of reality to the supposedly fictional images.