MONKNORI

1 PAGE" is a collage of paintings made by cutting out a page from a magazine. The artist creates beauty by transforming everyday material into a pictorial space.

Portraits" Portray fashion models as portraits in the pages of magazines and advertisements. The "model" as a symbol of fashion is returned to the "human".

The works are a group of works that give visible form to the invisible and conceptual, and capture them as scenery. He creates a painting space that abstracts the aesthetic experience of the mind's constant attempt to capture something (beauty).

MONKNORI Collage Collection Various printed words and colors, such as pieces of magazine paper collaged on canvas or small postcard-sized paper, are cut up to create a pictorial space.

acrylic, collage on photo These works are based on printed materials such as magazines, and are created using collage and acrylic paints. These small-sized works are derived from MONKNORI's series "1 PAGE" (collage and acrylic paintings on a single page of a magazine).

MONKNORI paints with oil paints on photographs taken by MONKNORI. He dares to replace the photograph with a material called "paper," and puts a material called "paint" on the flat and smooth surface, transforming it into a painting.

The motifs of candy wrappers, magazine covers, and jazz records are improvised with colored inks and pastels.

This group of works is based on the motif of a heart shape named "An" in Japanese.

This is a group of larger sized works.