Beautiful Islands 2
Year: 2020
Material/Technique: Acrylic, Canvas
Size: 41.2 × 32 × 2.5 cm
Edition: Unique
Signed:Included
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About the Work
- Year
- 2020
- Material/Technique
- Acrylic, Canvas
- Size
- 41.2 × 32 × 2.5 cm
- Edition
- Unique
- Signed
- Included
- Credits
- ©︎Hideaki Fujimoto
- Frame
- Not Included
- Work Certificate
- Included
- Distributor of artworks
- Hideaki Fujimoto
- Ship-from Area
- Okinawa Prefecture
- Days Until Dispatch
- About 2 Weeks
- Category
- Painting
- Style
- Everyday, Half Abstraction, Others, Animal, Emotional, Digital
Work Details
Production intention
The cuteness and beauty of cats themselves is perfect in and of itself.
So for me, through the motif of a “cat,” I create images of painting things like the feelings that distorted creatures called “humans” have.
The author Fujimoto moved to Naha, Okinawa in 1997. When I traveled to Taketomi Island in the Yaeyama Islands in Okinawa prefecture, I also met cats that live strong and relaxed on the island. I created this work while remembering the scene at that time.
Solo exhibition information
This work was exhibited at a solo exhibition held at the cat book specialty store “Shoshi Wagahaido” in Fukuoka city.
“Nekology at Nekoroji”
November 21th - December 13rd, 2020
Planning/Venue: Shoshi Wagahaido（Fukuoka)
Some of the works exhibited at the solo exhibition held in Fukuoka in 2008 were works with cat motifs, and this exhibition was realized in 2019 when there was an offer from the owner of Wagahaido (although it had not yet opened at the time), “Why don't you do a solo exhibition with only works with cat motifs at Wagahaido?”
Even after the exhibition period, the same store carefully kept it as a permanent work, but the store readily agreed so that a wider range of users could touch it, and it was returned to the artist in early summer 2024.
(Exhibition release URL)
This is a video of the grinding process for “Beautiful Islands 1 and 2,” which were produced simultaneously.
Like other works, it is a method of laminating acrylic paint and grinding. Therefore, the mattiere and color are common.
3 weeks
The title of the work with the cat as the main motif is often used or received from the title of the song. The song itself motivates me, and I'm inspired by the title song that fits the screen as production progresses.
Of course, you won't receive the music itself. Also, I don't have my own pictures to explain the song. It's just a sensory fit.
It's like that, and the title of this work starts with Okinawan folk songs. It is a song written after the war by a major composer known for many famous songs such as “Bashofu.”
Exhibition Information
- Past Exhibitions
- Nekology at Nekoroji vol.207.12.2025 - 07.27
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Painting as PhenomenonHideaki Fujimoto explores the possibilities of painting through a method that builds up the picture surface by layering and grinding acrylic paint. His compositions range from the representational to the non-representational, yet all share a common quality of color and matière.Born in Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, Fujimoto developed an early fascination with vehicles and machinery that grew into a longing to "make things." This led him to AKASHI National College of Technology, where he studied mechanical engineering; his graduation research examined the wear of NBC cutting tools in metal processing, and the textures and imagery of metal he observed under an electron microscope during that research continue to inform his work today.While still a student, he grew increasingly drawn to design and graphic art, and decided to change course, transferring to the Department of Industrial Design (now the Department of Design Engineering), School of Engineering, Chiba University, where he studied design more broadly. For his graduation project, he worked in a fine art research laboratory, producing paintings.After graduating, he worked at a design office and gained other professional experience before once again deciding to pursue painting. He enrolled in the Department of Oil Painting at Musashino Art School, spending two years relearning the fundamentals of painting and completing the program in March 1997. He moved to Naha, Okinawa immediately afterward, and has been based there, continuing his practice, ever since.Having long been drawn to painting's layered structure, uniqueness, and physicality, Fujimoto arrived in 1999 at his signature technique: building the picture surface by layering acrylic paint and grinding it down with sandpaper. Since then, while continuing to explore a range of visual styles, he has consistently pursued what he calls the "layered magic" hidden within painting.In recent years, he has also actively presented and sold his work online, including through e-commerce platforms and art subscription services.
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