Nobuhiro Nakanishi uses a variety of materials and techniques in creating artwork, such as drawings, three-dimensional sculptures, installations, and projections. What they share is Nakanishi’s interests in gaps and empty space and the impact they have on the viewer. In Nakanishi’s Stripe Drawing, an interface is created by accumulating an infinite number of lines drawn in pencil. Stripes gather to give rise to a picture, and the creation of this picture gives rise to the appearance of empty space. As the viewer changes focus, the picture and the empty space switch places, or as Nakanishi would explain, the viewer is able to capture the empty space within the picture. In his work, Layer Drawing #001-081, stacks of 24 slides were photographed at regular intervals of moments in time. Shapes arise from the stacking, suggesting that the boundary-free existence of time can be contained. Nakanishi strives to expose what we constantly feel around us but are unable to see or touch. |
