You're Lonely as Always

About the Artwork

With captivating color combinations, the Japanese artist Taichi Nakamura creates visual worlds that tell stories of people and their relationship to the environment. Each of these scenes holds a secret: for instance, the watercolors" The day I met you", "Walking down a colorful path", or "Daily life is always unknown". Beneath the soft, delicate layers of his paintings, a subtle tension sometimes stirs. You are lonely as always, for example, shows three figures, lost in a vast, scrapyard-like landscape. In Daily life unknown, a comet streaks across the sky—hopefully at a safe distance from Earth. Nakamura masterfully stages his figures at the boundary between pop culture and outsiderdom, closeness and distance, nature and destruction, thereby addressing the major themes of his generation. His poetic titles open up spaces for thought and invite the viewer to dream.