White Cube is pleased to present ‘UNBUILT,’ an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Japanese artist Minoru Nomata, his first in Greater China.
Drawn from several series, the presentation includes works from 1987 to 2020 and highlights the artist’s continued focus on imaginary architecture and ambient landscapes devoid of human presence. The paintings feature forms and structures of indeterminate periods, which emerge from Nomata’s hybrid architectural language—a blend of the industrial, the fantastical, the archaic and the futuristic—and develop from the artist’s iterative process. Often beginning with sketches from a found image, these are then transformed over a period of months, years or even decades. Reflecting upon a condition of monoculture, technological pursuit and overarching human endeavour, Nomata conjures an oneiric world imbued with suspense and uncertainty.
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