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What is life for, Mr. Kuboshima?

What is life for, Mr. Kuboshima?

W 40.00cm x H 30.00cm x D 2.50cm

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  • About this What is life for, Mr. Kuboshima?

    Detail

    Medium

    Drawing

    Edition

    Original Artwork

    Year

    2024

    Sign

    Artists' signatures on the front of the artworks

    Frame

    Framed

    Description

    Kuboshima Seiichirō was an entrepreneur who loved art. Revenue from his bar, Tower, and other activities went toward buying artworks. After some time, he created the Mugonkan (or “Speechless Museum”) in Nagano in 1997. His inspiration came from his admiration for young Japanese artists who died during or soon after World War II, a tragic loss of promising talent. The museum’s mission was to preserve the work of these fallen artists, displaying sketches and paintings they created while in art school. Kuboshima felt that these artworks, though not technically refined, captured the pure passion and unfulfilled dreams of young artists who “wanted to keep painting.” It is hard to imagine how different the Japanese art world would have been if so many talented people had not been lost in war.

    Kuboshima originally intended to include the works he had gathered in his existing Shinano Drawing Museum, which he founded in 1979. However, after reflecting on the emotional weight of these pieces, he decided to dedicate a separate museum entirely to them. Kuboshima personally sought out the relatives of these artists, often traveling across Japan to gather these artworks and stories. Despite financial struggles and declining attendance, Kuboshima remained committed to honoring these young artists’ memories.

    Based on a photograph of Kuboshima-san addressing an audience upon opening of one of his museums, Skyler has abstracted the scene to imagine the curator addressing so many unfinished canvases as the sun inevitably goes down on the day.

  • About this artist

    Skyler

    Skyler

    Canada

    Concept

    Graphic arts stands in the middle of photography, painting, and language. It borrows from all three, but what gifts does it give back? About cinema, Fellini suggested that if you are moved by a particular film, you don't need an explanation. And if you are not spellbound, no explanation can suffice.

    Skyler's approach to his work is mysterious in the same way. He draws from different painting traditions and uses his own photographs, acrylic, oil, pastels and digital painting to create an aesthetic experience with humor, wonder, and social commentary.

    The artist often creates digital paintings in the magic realism tradition to catch and sustain the viewer's attention. He intends each work to be crafted carefully and, hopefully, resonate on a semantic level. Moving pixels around the screen to combine digital art and painting, there is much to enjoy and ponder!

    A representative work is "Bellflower, Love Awaited," a graphic art composition with fine paint stroke detailing. The composition size is A3.

    Bellflowers are common all over the Northern Hemisphere. Accordingly, the flowers can be found in Japan, where the artist lives, but the flower is also widespread in Europe and North America.

    The flower usually has a symbolic association with gratitude, constancy, support, or romance. As such, Skyler uses the image as a motif to pay tribute to all those who hold on to their love, even when the loved one is far away in place or time.

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