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The Tokyo-based artist Toshio Ishikawafs
small-scale canvases combine several painting traditions with intriguing and
spectacular results. Most of his oil compositions set stunningly detailed
photorealistic still lifes in the foreground, against impressionist-style
landscapes that appear cracked and frayed like a trompe lfoeil on an ancient
wall. Nautical motifs recur, including seascapes and spiral shells, but so do
more ambiguous objects like hourglasses and grapes.
Ishikawa describes his work as surrealism,
a fitting categorization since the startling juxtapositions of perspectives,
settings and subjects in his paintings are nothing if not dreamlike, and the
items he portrays seem to have been collected from some subconscious repository
of symbolic objects. Adding to the delicately detailed oil compositionsf unreal
atmosphere, his paintings always feature a dominant tone ? generally blue or
green ? that lends his enigmatic images a nostalgic, otherworldly tint. Space,
time and perception become thrillingly unhinged. Without prescribing a specific
way of seeing them, Ishikawa invites us to find meaning in his exquisitely fine
dream visions.