OVERVIEW
Masaya Chiba
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Year of Birth
Country of Birth
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2022
1980
Japan
Bel Ami
Masaya Chiba utilizes painting, sculpture, and installation to create dreamlike works that respond to Surrealist traditions while also exploring the limits of representation and translation. Many of his paintings begin as assemblages in his studio. In preparing these installations Chiba collects seemingly random assortments of objects — photographs, wooden planks, potted plants, excess paint — to stage unusual material landscapes. Other objects used in his paintings are also drawn from memory, suggesting an illusory attempt to recapture objects and experiences that no longer exist in the present. Onc ...
Like an Expanding Gas / Drawing with a Skull and a Question Mark, 2022
Canvas, panel, Japanese paper, oil
Diptych: 27 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 3/4 in (each panel), 70 x 50 x 1.8 cm (each panel)
Like a Growing Tree / Drawing with a Skull and a Question Mark, 2022
Canvas, panel, Japanese paper, oil, ink
Diptych: 12 5/8 x 39 1/2 x 3/4 in (each panel), 32.2 x 100.3 x 1.8 cm (each panel)
Like the Wind / Drawing with a Skull and a Question Mark, 2022
Canvas, panel, Japanese paper, oil, ink
Diptych: 31 5/8 x 11 1/2 x 3/4 in (each panel), 80.3 x 29.2 x 1.8 cm (each panel)
Ancient Japanese Woman, 2022
Flowers, vase, oil on canvas, wood, mask
17 1/16 x 20 1/16 x 39 3/8 in (43.3 x 51 x 100 cm)
Drunkard, 2022
Oil on canvas, wood, masks
9 15/16 x 7 5/8 x 3 15/16 in (25.3 x 19.3 x 10 cm)
