Artist / Painter
ZINSETSU INOUE
2002
Born in Hirosaki, Aomori, northern Japan
2008
Entered a local elementary school and at the same time became interested in the local festival "Nebuta".
2010
Decides to become a Nebuta painter, a profession that involves painting floats.
Studied under local painter Daisetsu Sato.
Out of 200 students, he is the last apprentice.
2016
He makes his debut as a professional in his third year of junior high school.
2017
His master passes away. From there, questions arise about his life as a Nebuta painter.
After seeing an exhibition of a local painting group, he was moved and decided to become a new painter of Japanese paintings.
2020
He held his first solo exhibition. Thousands of people from inside and outside of the prefecture came to see the exhibition, and all of his works were purchased.
In the summer of the same year, a work using tiles from Shuri Castle in Okinawa was donated to a hotel on Iriomote Island.
Since then, he has participated in exhibitions in Tokyo, Osaka, and other cities, and in 2022, he will hold a solo exhibition at a department store.
He has also collaborated with calligraphers and designers.
Why do you draw a picture?
The basis of this may be that I want to communicate in a way that seems impossible to communicate from my surroundings, and that's all.
I have had a transcendental experience, or want to convey this excitement and experience.
I want to express it. That is the instinct that human beings should have had.
Ancient humans expressed their familiar life in their works.
It became an excavated item and remains in the form of archaeological sites, but the ancients would not have expected it to remain for thousands of years.
Digital and easy tools have become mainstream for modern people. While accepting it as a new era, it is the opposite of the nature of human beings.
This earth is surrounded by many humans, animals and nature.
Humans have chosen to control animals and nature in order to survive.
Mass production, mass consumption. We are now suffering from the stigma that humans have controlled in all of the wasted lives, the destruction of the environment.
I learn a lot from nature, and it is scary and beautiful, and I make various discoveries every day from various natural reactions such as bleeding and color in paintings.
Nature: animals, mountains, forests, seas.
But even in the cities and towns where we live, we can feel close to nature.
It's natural for me to draw on canvas while in the atelier.
Each nature exists in you.
Paintings written with a brush or in traditional ways of expression seem to be out of date in digital, but we must recognize that there are both parts that humans cannot do with digital and things that are difficult to approach humans. I have to.
In most cases, natural phenomena that happen unexpectedly on the screen cannot be reproduced by artificial intelligence.
Then, on the premise of the phenomenon that occurs on the screen, share and share the humor, impression, and experience that you felt.
What is the essence of art? I'm not sure when asked, but
I felt that art encouraged us.
Art saves me, shares it, and saves people.
I continue to face the canvas in my atelier at this very moment.
©︎Jun Tsuneda
