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Hirakawa, Kota

Tokyo University of the Arts, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, Department of Oil Painting
1987年Born in Saitama Prefecture
2012年「ゴールデンコンペティション2012」 ゴールデン賞受賞

2013年東京藝術大学大学院美術研究科絵画科油画専攻修了
「FACE2013 損保ジャパン美術賞展」 審査員特別賞

Kota Hirakawa
photo by zui
Kota Hirakawa | Trinitite - Attu Island Gyokusai 2013 1935×2595mm Canvas, acrylic, oil, framed
Trinitite - Attu Island Gyokusai 2013 1935×2595mm Canvas, acrylic, oil, framed
Author's comment

Memories and shapes that cannot be expressed.

Judge's review

It is highly commendable that he created a sense of ``realism'' by reproducing Tsuguharu Fujita's ``war paintings'' in black on ``painting'', an ``form of expression'' that in a certain sense has been perfected. On the other hand, however, this is politics within the ``framework of art'' of Japanese art history, and the question is how far it comes into contact with the ``real'' of ``war.'' I look forward to the future. (Shigeo Goto)