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Enrico Isamu Oyama “Present Tense“ Takuro Someya Contemporary Art, Tokyo 20 August - 24 September 2016 Present Tense is the first official solo exhibition in Japan by artist Enrico Isamu Oyama at Takuro Someya Contemporary Art in Tokyo. It is composed entirely with his new body of works. Both the refined figurative and dynamic performative nature of Oyama’s works weave into each other and flow throughout the exhibition. One significantly large piece, FFIGURATI #133, features elaborated 84 units of Quick Turn Structure, the artist’s signature motif developed from the visual language of graffiti culture. The dynamic background of circular lines that Oyama calls Improvised Loops were drawn by a special marker filled with sumi ink. It was originally created as a live painting performance in New York before it was brought to the artist’s studio for further process. 2 mid-size paintings, FFIGURATI #134 and #135, also feature large black-on-black Quick Turn Structure applied
