Tenki Hiramatsu is a Japanese-born painter based in Karlsruhe, Germany, whose work typically involves shadowy, noirish characters, adrift within abstract landscapes. These subjects maintain a blank mysteriousness, the purview of outsiders, which allows Hiramatsu to move freely between dissimilar genres and styles. Hiramatsu's work rewards extended viewing - his figures start to look hazy and parallax, like the sound of tape warping; they leave the impression of something seen from the window of a fast-moving train: always receding, haunting in their elusiveness. Through a disciplined color palette and tone, Tenki spawns avatars from his subconscious, evoking either freedom or isolation and sometimes both. In the way that Albert Camus or Osamu Dazai write about the internal state of the modern human, Hiramatsu evokes this estranged meditation within the confines of the canvas.
Tenki Hiramatsu
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