Toru Kuwakubo

Born 1978 in Zama, Kanagawa, Japan
Lives and works in Kanagawa, Japan

Toru Kuwakubo started his career as a painter in a theatrical manner – inventing an imaginary painter within himself and creating paintings with thick layers of paint that remind us of the Impressionists – as a part of his performance as an idealized professional painter. Since then he has continued exploring the possibility of painting as a medium, by working with the richness of the materiality of paint and physicality of the painter. Narrative is an important element of Kuwakubo’s practice. He has written Telling of Sea, Telling of Painter, his self-published paperback, which contains short tales as well as his theory of art. The images that are flowing out from the narratives take forms on paintings, perhaps searching for continuing narratives and painting’s ability of conveying them. (Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo)

TOMIO KOYAMA GALLERY

Dance Lesson

Toru Kuwakubo