Shintaro & Yoshiko Nakahara: Clockwise

"Japanese artists Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara work both together and separately … Recently they have begun to collaborate, combining their different approaches to create an exquisite series of works that they have called 'Hikari' (Light), a metaphor for the revelation implicit in taking a mutual journey." - Helen Kedgley, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at Pataka Museum

Bringing together the talents of Shintaro and Yoshiko Nakahara, Clockwise presents a unique body of collaborative paintings from the Japanese-born husband and wife duo. Each with successful careers as independent artists, the union of their obviously disparate styles signals the emergence of a ‘third artist;’ their respective practices merging to produce singular works which remain distinct entities in themselves.

Over the long process of the works’ making, Yoshiko’s very fine ink drawings provide the base for Shintaro’s acidic and strident colour formations; these are then often reworked again by Yoshiko to produce the distinctive and highly detailed finish of the artworks.

As the two work independently, yet on the same canvas, they attempt to hold in their minds the other’s dreams, thoughts and intentions; thus the process becomes a kind of mutual reconstruction and can lead to surprising and previously unimagined imagery. The unique reflections of two minds together elicit contrasts of striking beauty, depth and dimension.

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