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Boxer
In this painting, a boxer raises his fist against a backdrop of muted orange, textured white, swirled grey, and purple. His eyes are closed, and it is unclear if he is signaling victory or defeat, if the gesture is defensive or an attack, if the boxer is entering or retreating from the frame. “Boxer” shifts between elegant and clumsy, and the instability of this character gets transferred to the viewer.
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.
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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 was born in 1986 in Wakayama, Japan, and lives and works in Karlsruhe and Leipzig, Germany. The artist received a BA from Nihon University College of Art in Tokyo, Japan (2009) and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany (2016 to 2019).
Hiramatsu has mounted recent solo exhibitions at Half Gallery in New York, NY (2024); Sebastian Gladstone in Los Angeles, CA (2024); Kunstverein Wilhelmshoehe in Ettlingen, Germany (2024); Staedtische Galerie Karlsruhe in Karlsruhe, Germany (2023), Castle Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2023), and Barbara Seiler Gallery in Zürich, Switzerland (2022).
He has participated in group exhibitions at Fondation Fernet-Branca in Saint-Louis, France (2024); Europa in New York, NY (2023); Hive in Los Angeles, CA (2021); and Kunsthalle Basel in Basel, Switzerland (2017).
