Goro Murayama

Curator’s Text: Title :《Self-organized painting[Excessively]》

To create this work, Murayama reinterpreted the elements that make up a painting as the painted image (or “illusion”), which is supported by the textile (or “canvas”). For his canvas, he uses a three-dimensional object created by weaving strings onto a tree structure that serves as a canvas where he creates his drawing. The drawing process follows the three-dimensional structure of the tree-like canvas, starting at the top and dividing into branches. While it could be said that this follows the approach of a two-dimensional work, it also exists three-dimensionally. The completed work is hung on the wall and is presented as both tapestry and sculpture, an experimental work that traverses several forms of creative expression.
Murayama expresses self-organizing processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. Yet, as seen here, his work is not confined to the two-dimensional plane and continues to expand from three-dimensional works to installations that utilize the entire exhibition space.

Artist Profile: Goro Murayama
Born in Tokyo, 1983. Artist. PhD. (Fine Arts). Murayama expresses self-organized processes and patterns through paintings and drawings. 2010 shiseido art egg prize winner. 2015 Completed the doctoral program in oil painting (mural painting) at Tokyo University of the Arts. 2015-17: Artist-in-residence in Vienna as a Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs overseas training program for emerging artists (visiting researcher at the Intercultural Philosophy Laboratory, University of Vienna). Recent exhibitions, 2022 “Setouchi Triennale”, Ogijima Island / Kagawa （’19）, 2022 “Drawings – Plurality” / PARCO Museum TOKYO / Tokyo, 2020 “Painting Folding” / Takuro Someya Contemporary Art / Tokyo, 2019 “Aichi Triennale 2019” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art / Aichi, ”L’homme qui marche　Verkörperung des Sperrigen” / Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Germany, “The Extended Mind”, Talbot Rice Gallery at University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh / Scotland, and many others. Currently, he is presenting his new work "Painting folding 2.0" at NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC), in which he is developing an attempt to design protein structures that could exist in reality through the predictive calculation of "Alpha fold" from handmade textile paintings.

photo: Yoi Kawakubo