Nihon Art School in Tokyo
Braunschweig University of Fine Arts
»Landschaft und Metapher«
Group Exh. of the art department of the University Kassel
Exhibition with Manne Sens in Westermann publishing house in Braunschweig (D)
Exhibition with Petr Vrána in Exhibitionsforum of GHK (Studio Kausch) Kassel (D)
»KIKKOO« 6 Japanese artists from Duesseldorf, Group Exh. (Ai Hagita, Setsuko Ikai, Nobuko Sugai, Takeshi Suzuki and Hiroshi Teshima), Eller / Duesseldorf (D)
»De Reizende Zon« 6 Japanese artists
Group Exh. (Ai Hagita, Setsuko Ikai, Nobuko Sugai, Takeshi Suzuki and Hiroshi Teshima), Kunsthal Almelo (NLD)
»Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Japan« with Yoshio Yoshida, Stadtsparkasse Neuss, Gallery Sels in Neuss (D)
»5 Japanische Künstler aus Düsseldorf«
Group Exh. (Motoko Aoki, Ai Hagita, O-Jun and Sumiko Naganuma), Kunstraum Neuss (D)
»Youth« Group Exh. (Yoshitomo Nara, Yoichi Kamimura, Shozo Taniguchi and Natalie Horberg), YKG Gallery in Tokio (JPN)
»Departure and Arrival« & »Fear and Hope« Solo Exh., Duesseldorf (D)
»tomodachito« »Mit Freund*innen«,
Group Exh. (Takeoka Yūji, Nara Yoshitomo, Murase Kyōko, Andō Yukako, Kinoshita Ryō, Anca Muresan, Karin Sander, Arakawa Soya and Magdalena Jetelová), Kunsthalle Duesseldorf (D)
Masao Nakahara is rich in fantasy, colorfulness, depth. A trigger for his fantasy is the memory, based on childhood experiences. In a pictorial space of sucking depth, the figures are at the mercy of their roller coaster rides, shimmying. On fragile ladders and railings, they try to move their small, heavy, ridiculous loads.There is nothing fixed, nothing mounted, nothing contrived.Emblematic of the entire work, in one painting the figures of divers combine pictorial depth and pictorial surface.Paintings of fine nuance, which can represent the tiny and remote and yet remain generous and concrete. Paintings that are alive, existential and comic, whose growth and breath is not disturbed by speculative inventiveness and empty fabrication.
