Daisuke OHBA
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Acrylic, Aluminum powder, silver powder, linen on panel
180 x 180 cm
2024
Daisuke Ohba, a Japanese artist based in Tokyo, is best known for his paintings that evoke an illusion of color that has been possible by the latest materials. The image is methodologically painted using a tool - awaking our perception to continually rebuild the entire scenery as the light and focus vary with the viewers’ movement. One of the attractions of Ohba’s art is his use of iridescent pearl paint, which produces a myriad of subtle nuances and intricacies of colors as the light varies as the viewer moves. By developing this relationship with the viewer, Ohba has been discovering new possibilities in pictorial space. Facing one of these works, the viewer is in the presence of a dazzling world of light, where his painting becomes a site of reflection and contemplation.
As a continuation of his signature series of iridescent paintings, Ohba's latest canvases shift continuously in kaleidoscopic gradations even without external light sources. Geometric patterns alternately appear and disappear from within the dark luscious surface in response to the changing perspective of the viewer. The alluring visual effect results from a new production method Ohba has invented through methodological experimentation, pursuing his fundamental interest in phenomenological questions pertaining to the perception of light and its color.