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Departure and Arrival
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Fear and Hope

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Masao Nakahara

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Masao Nakahara

This is the story and creative work of Masao Nakahara, a visual artist in the field of painting and sculpture. Born and raised in Japan, he’s currently based in Düsseldorf, Germany. In his works he processes his reality as well as memories. Through his visual language, he can provide himself with clarity about what he is searching for, far beyond the surface.  Moments of painting he creates exclusively for himself, without any thoughts of an audience. So, in a sense, we are lucky see his works here and thus can share with him, the intimate level of exploring the meaning and essence of our existence.
This website is an attempt to present the artist’s various creative phases, while putting them into his biographical context to reveal, that art and life are constantly interacting with each other.

中原正夫の絵と立体作品、そしてその背景。日本出身、ドイツ・デュッセルドルフ在住。 中原正夫の作品では現実と記憶がテーマになっている。そこでは絵が言語となり、表面を超えたところに作者の探しているものが明らかになってくる。 絵を描いている時、中原は鑑賞者のことを考えることはなく、自分のためだけに描いている。そのため、これらの絵を見ることができる者は幸せだと言える。私たちの存在の意味と本質を探求しようとする作者の内密な世界を分かち合うことができるのだから。
このウエブサイトは、異なった時代の作品と当時の作者の生き方とを直接結び付け、作品と生き方とが常に相互関係にあることを示している。

Departure and Arrival

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Chilhood memorys (soon)
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Captured and Float (soon)
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Coming to Germany in the early 1980s, Masao got to know the differences between the Japanese and German art scenes at that time. In the light of academic training at an art school in Tokyo and the expressionist movement of the Neuen Wilden in Germany at that time, he learned to develop his own visual language.

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Fear and Hope

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Inhabitants of these works are without age, embryo-like and aged at the same time. Forms and figures seem existent and petrified in one. Spaces with basic and recurring elements such as bridges, benches or cherry blossom trees are expressed through both, paintings, and sculptures. It is a phase in which Masao is often alone, withdraws and is confronted with fundamental questions about life and death.

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20 (S)
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