Ryohei Usui
Liste Year
Year of Birth
Country of Birth
Presented by
2022
1983
Japan
Mujin-to Production
Ryohei Usui
Born in 1983, Shizuoka, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo.
Using different mediums, Usui continues to present works that can be seen as a modern version of “Mitate (resemblance),” in which familiar objects play the leading role and change the way we look at things that already exist. Recent exhibitions include MUJIN-TO Production, Tokyo; Mitsui Memorial Museum, Tokyo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka; Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu; Yamaguchi Prefectural Art Museum; and XYZ collective, Tokyo.
As I walk around the streets of Tokyo, I often come across plastic containers left with some contents or PET bottles abandoned on spot.
On the streets, on the fences, on the switchboards, on the railings of the bridges, or in the shrubberies, unconsciously placed containers stand like still-life motifs illuminated by the summer sun, the dusk sunshine, and the streetlights lit in the dark.
Although the presence of these plastic bottles is insignificant, I sometimes found them very attractive like the composition of Giorgio Morandi's still-life paintings.
< ...
