Baseball in a Vacant Lot

Über das Werk

The day I met you”, “Walking down a colorful path” or “Baseball in a vacant lot” – these are the poetic titles of Taichi Nakamura’s unique works. The graduate of the College of Art and Design, Tokyo Zokei Art University, whose exhibition career in Japanese galleries and museums is already impressive, made his first drawings as a child in his parents' kimono shop. Nakamura virtuously arranges his characters between pop culture and outsiderism, relationships and boundaries, nature and destruction, thus referencing the major themes of his generation. Things occasionally bubble under the graceful, light-looking watercolor surface of his works: "You are lonely as always" shows three figures somewhat lost in a spacious area similar to a junkyard. In "Daily life unknown" a comet streaks across the sky - and hopefully misses the earth.