Study of Human Mind, Calm-colored Painting

Naoki Fuku's oeuvre is a critical approach to the controversy of the human existence. It questions the social and political situation of the individual in its original cultural environment. It is all about existence and ways of coping with it or getting around it. His two new work series Babel in my Mind und Study of Human Mind play with the concept of identity. On the one hand they make identification difficult if not altogether impossible and on the other hand they manage to give a striking picture of a complex inner world. One could look upon people's identity as a multitude of layers. Knowing all the layers, however, does not necessarily mean to really grasp the identity behind them. The artist is playing with these layers he is putting them on top of each other in a constant process of hiding them. A human being's identity can be explained as a multitude of layers but also as a conglomerate of characteristics. Hiding those characteristics means taking off facets and showing another existence. The works seem to be variations of one and the same man showing a multitude of personalities and characteristics. Thus this variety helps the viewer to see traits of the person behind them. It culminates in a game about how much the artist has changed what the viewer is looking at. The artist is playing with the viewer’s perception and expectation while showing a remarkable array of identities. Fuku creates new identities and shows the inner life of the resulting characters while playing with the layers which are quasi wrapped around it to represent inner horrors and convulsions in a very expressionistic way.

Painting:Ink on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:63 W x 83 H x 1 D in

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