Hakata
Year: 2017
Material/Technique: Oil, Canvas, Jesso, Pigment
Size: 50 × 60.6 × 2 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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USD 3,365
Note: Prices are displayed as reference prices converted at the exchange rate. Payments are made in Japanese yen.
About the Work
- Year
- 2017
- Material/Technique
- Oil, Canvas, Jesso, Pigment
- Size
- 50 × 60.6 × 2 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- Nicolas Depetris
- Ship-from Area
- Not Set
- Days Until Dispatch
- Not Set
- Category
- Painting
- Style
- Asia, Conceptual, Half Abstraction, Everyday
Work Details
Concept and Intention of the Artwork
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What You Want to Express Through the artwork
I wanted to capture the particular density and atmosphere of Hakata as seen from above: architecture, distance and urban life compressed into a constructed landscape. The painting is less about describing the city literally than about what remains of the experience of looking at it over time.
Production Methods and Tools
Oil on canvas. The painting was developed through several sessions of direct observation from the rooftop of Hakata Station, followed by further work in the studio.
Production Time
Several on-site painting sessions in 2017, followed by additional studio work.
Production Location
Rooftop of Hakata Station and studio, Fukuoka, Japan.
Thoughts on the Artwork and Title
The title refers directly to Hakata, the area of Fukuoka from which the city was observed and painted. The simplicity of the title keeps the work anchored to the actual place from which it originated.
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USD 3,365
Note: Prices are displayed as reference prices converted at the exchange rate. Payments are made in Japanese yen.
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Artist
French Painter & Architect HMONP
Nicolas Depetris is a French painter and architect HMONP working between Menton and Fukuoka. His series Silent Cartography examines what places retain: the traces of labour, construction, weather and time across industrial territories, cities, mountains and coastlines. Working primarily in oil, he rebuilds observed sites through displaced colour, compressed distance and architectural structure, placing human-made forms against slower geological time. Nicolas Depetris (b. 1984, Nice, France) is a French painter and architect HMONP working between Menton and Fukuoka. He studied painting and printmaking with Jean-Baptiste Sécheret from 2006 to 2013 and graduated from ENSAPB Paris-Belleville in 2015. His practice develops from field observation and an archive assembled through long-distance travel across Europe and Asia. He works primarily in oil on canvas and panel, alongside drawing, monotype and wood engraving. Solo exhibitions include TSUZUKU at FEELSEEN Ginza, Tokyo (2024); Le bâti et l'oubli in Menton (2022); Sept cents jours au Japon at SWAY Gallery, Paris (2018); and L'homme et le paysage at the Institut français du Japon - Kyushu, Fukuoka (2017). His work has also been exhibited in France, Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.
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