Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也

Masaya Chiba

Scoop-type object

2024

Paper, wood, acrylic paint, screw

Ca. 29 x 15 x 8 cm

Edition of 9 copies, all unique, signed and numbered by the artist

Price
€375.00
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The edition

This edition consists of a construction of wood and painted cardboard. It is a small object, similar to a model tree, both crude and fragile in appearance. Anyone familiar with Masaya Chiba's world will immediately recognize one of the typical accessories that the artist usually uses as motifs in his paintings. Reproduced on some of the paintings integrated into the sliding doors of his Yonkai exhibition, the object leaves the studio and takes on a life of its own. Between sculpture and painting, object in itself and subject of a representation, unique structure and exemplar of a series, its state is in constant flux. 

The artist
Masaya Chiba 千葉正也

Masaya Chiba was born in 1980 in Yokohama. He currently lives in Tokyo. 

Masaya Chiba’s work takes the form of sculptures, installations, photos and videos, but it is painting that constitutes its core. It is through painting that he deploys a wide repertoire of cultural references and visual operations that allow him to question the act of looking. One of his typical methods consists of gathering found or manufactured objects in his studio, which he then meticulously reproduces on canvas, integrating into this illusionist play other visual planes, surface effects and heterogeneous elements. Playing on the confusion between sculpture and painting, reality and representation, and blending the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, the artist provides a sort of snapshot of the contemporary condition. With a certain sense of the absurd, he confronts us with the network of images and messages, memories and mediated perceptions with which our daily lives are woven.   

His work is represented by Shugo Arts (Tokyo).

The exhibition

Masaya Chiba's exhibition will take place at Yonkai from November 9 to December 15, 2024.