[USED] Scenery I wanted to see - Koji Nakazono

Contents: Deep forests, oceans, dark webs - ghosts that arrive by diving into unexplored places. A genius of the "digital primitive" generation who depicts their "mysterious" ecology. Hasegawa Yuko (Professor at Tokyo University of the Arts, Counselor at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo)

He was an artist who was attracting attention since his time at Tokyo University of the Arts, and was selected for the "Art Award Tokyo Marunouchi 2012" at the time of graduation, and won both the Tomio Koyama Award and the Audience Award. He was expected to have a bright future, and was interested not only in painting but also in music and video, and was just about to expand his talent freely when he died at the young age of 25 in an accident at the sea in Takamatsu in the summer of 2015. However, he left behind about 500 works that he poured all his energy into during his short but intense creative life of seven years from his high school graduation. This book is his first art book, and it narrows it down to 204 pieces to serve as an entrance to the "world of Nakazono Koji." His unique style is very impressive, and as you can see from the cover jacket, various elements overlap and float like layers in the same space, creating a world. Then, suddenly, mysterious motifs appear one after another, and they draw the viewer into a mysterious story that is fun and mysterious at the same time. As Nakazono says, "The finished surface looks different, but they are all scenes I wanted to see," even in the 204 pieces published in this book, you get the illusion that an infinite number of surprisingly different works are appearing. Overwhelming imagination and power, and the beautiful colors that unite them, have created a unique world of painting that is unlike anyone else's. This book was published in conjunction with the "Nakazono Koji Exhibition: Outer Edge - Scenes I Wanted to See" to be held at the Yokosuka Museum of Art from July 14 to September 30, 2018.