A solo exhibition of Atsuki Fujimoto who was awarded at the ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2021 will be held at AIR Kamonasu.

You can nearly see it but cannot, but it is as if you can feel the presence... The canvas takes us on a tranquil healing journey, overlapping the painting we see in reality and memories of the past. However, Fujimoto's paintings tell that there is pain in the process of healing. In front of this unique purity and scenery that becomes abstracted, cogitation and the sympathetic nerves are forced to stop working - it is as if we have been made to take antipsychotics. For those used to the context of abstract art and contemporary art, it is difficult to give into the pursuit with no answers, as if to place oneself into a battle of repeating the universal unsolved question: where have the dead gone?
Wassily Kandinsky repeatedly uses the term 'spiritual' in Concerning the Spiritual in Art, as in the title. In his life afflicted with structure and the destruction of it, he gradually moved to expressions of colour that reflected purely on his internal senses, the structure which he tried to get rid of was replaced with the subject of the spiritual, and we can see his difficulty in reaching a freedom without a subject in the composition series. Fujimoto also tries to escape the learnt authority of structure, strategy and drawing in art, by simply depicting what is there, and seeks freedom by leaving interpretation to the viewer, however a paradox is formed between the deconstruction of structure in painting, and references to Eastern definitions of nothingness.
You can nearly see it but cannot, but it is as if you can feel the presence... this frustration and conflict is what makes Fujimoto's artwork shine, and is the eternal value of paintings that gently continues to hinder freedom.
(Akiyo Yagyu, AIR Kamonasu coordinator)

Atsuki Fujimoto

Born in 1997, Mie. Completed Masters Course in Oil Painting, Fine and Applied Arts Field, Graduate School of Kyoto University of the Arts, 2021. Awarded the award of excellence, ARTISTS' FAIR KYOTO 2021 Akatsuki ART AWARD, and the Naoko Sumi Award at the Shell Art Award 2021. Solo exhibitions include Drink a Cup of Tea on a Forest Terrace, Ace Hotel Kyoto 1F gallery (Kyoto), 2021, Is what is there the Truth, Kyoto University of the Arts Galerie Aube (Kyoto), 2018. He has been actively participating in over 10 group exhibitions in 2021.