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YusukeNakano/Paramodel

中野裕介パラモデル

中野裕介 / パラモデル

Yusuke Nakano / Paramodel

Born in Higashi-Osaka in 1976. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate Schools, Department of Painting (Japanese Painting) in 2002. Began working with Yasuhiko Hayashi of the same university in 2001, and in 2003 the unit name was changed to "Paramodel". Based on the theme of metaphysical "model play", they have produced works in diverse forms, including large-scale installations using the toy "Plarail". Many of the images are conceptualized and expanded by Nakano, such as the coined word "Paramodel", the idea of using the toy "Plarail", and "the never-ending construction site". After working in a library from 2011 to 2017, in his current solo activities, he continues to create works that traverse books from all eras and past, including literature, philosophy, manga, architecture, local culture, and traditional performing arts, with drawings, texts, and spatial expressions as the main themes.

1976年 東大阪生まれ。2002年 京都市立芸術大学大学院 絵画専攻（日本画）修了。01年 同大学の林泰彦と活動開始、03年 ユニット名を「パラモデル」に。メタフィジカルな「模型遊び」をテーマに、玩具「プラレール」を用いた大規模なインスタレーションなど、多様な形式の作品を発表。造語「パラモデル」や玩具「プラレール」使用の発案、「終わらない工事現場」など、中野が概念化し拡張されたイメージも多い。11〜17年の図書館勤務を経た現在のソロ活動では、描画やテキスト・空間表現を軸に、文学・哲学・マンガ・建築・郷土文化・伝統芸能など、古今の書物を横断し、題材とする創作を続ける。

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Yusuke Nakano / Paramodel

Biography 略歴

  • Born in Higashi-Osaka in 1976. Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts Graduate Schools, Department of Painting (Japanese Painting) in 2002. Began working with Yasuhiko Hayashi of the same university in 2001, and in 2003 the unit name was changed to "Paramodel". Based on the theme of metaphysical "model play", they have produced works in diverse forms, including large-scale installations using the toy "Plarail". Many of the images are conceptualized and expanded by Nakano, such as the coined word "Paramodel", the idea of using the toy "Plarail", and "the never-ending construction site". After working in a library from 2011 to 2017, in his current solo activities, he continues to create works that traverse books from all eras and past, including literature, philosophy, manga, architecture, local culture, and traditional performing arts, with drawings, texts, and spatial expressions as the main themes.
  • 1976年 東大阪生まれ。2002年 京都市立芸術大学大学院 絵画専攻（日本画）修了。01年 同大学の林泰彦と活動開始、03年 ユニット名を「パラモデル」に。メタフィジカルな「模型遊び」をテーマに、玩具「プラレール」を用いた大規模なインスタレーションなど、多様な形式の作品を発表。造語「パラモデル」や玩具「プラレール」使用の発案、「終わらない工事現場」など、中野が概念化し拡張されたイメージも多い。11〜17年の図書館勤務を経た現在のソロ活動では、描画やテキスト・空間表現を軸に、文学・哲学・マンガ・建築・郷土文化・伝統芸能など、古今の書物を横断し、題材とする創作を続ける。

Solo Exhibitions 個展

2012
"How to make a paramodel" MORI YU GALLERY TOKYO
"The plastic model of paramodel is paramodel"
The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam,Hanoi,Vietnam
2011
"Tommyca world of Paramodel"
Mitsubishi-Jisho ARTIUM,Fukuoka
2010
"The World According to Paramodel"
Otani Memorial Art Museum,Nishinomiya City,Hyogo
"The world according to P"MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO
"Parallelplan" The art gallery of Kanazawa college of art /Kanazawa
2009
"Paramodelic-graffiti at Naniwabashi Station,"Art Area B1,Osaka
"P Class Arcitsct Studio,"MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO
"Paramodelic Motor Pool,"MORI YU GALLERY TOKYO
2008
"Paramodel Joint Factory Workshop Document",Goten-yama Art Center,Osaka
"Paramodel Joint Factory,"Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art,Kagawa
"Romance of P," MORI YU GALLERY TOKYO
2007
"Paramodelic Plant Construction",MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO
"Paramodel Exhibition" The Museum of Art, Kochi
2006
"Paramodelic Production Plant"Gallery Aka Kaidan Art College Kobe
2005
"paramodelic graffiti" Kyoto art center
"Paradise model" MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO
2004
Jul. sky-blue plastic route (Gallery sowaka / Kyoto)
2002
Feb. Yasuhiko Hayashi+Yusuke Nakano "Aozora landscape"(Gallery uramado / Osaka)
Jun. Yasuhiko Hayashi+Yusuke Nakano "Ku-so- landscape"(Gallery sen/ Osaka)

Group Exhibitions グループ展

2014
"MOT ANNUAL 2014 FRAGMENTS INCOMPLETE BEGINNING" MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART TOKYO,Tokyo
"Perth International Arts Festival 2014" John Curtin Gallery,Australia
"Daily Reflections" Total Museum of Contemporary Art,Korea
2013
"16th Japan Media Arts Festival "Art Division- Jury Selections"The National Art Center, Tokyo
"Why not live for Art? II"Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
"Museum of summer vacation"The Museum of Modern art, wakayama
"Group exhibition" MERRY-GO-ROUND,kyoto
"TAMAVIVANT Ⅱ 2013" Tama Art University Exhibition,Parthenon tama,Tokyo
"Story of Minato－Sakuya-kono-hana prize winner"Creative Center Osaka
2012
"Waiting for the First Train" Tokyo Station Gallery, Tokyo
"NEVER ENDING CONSTRUCTION" AKI GALLERY, Taiwan
"New Collection 2010"
Otani Memorial Art Museum,Nishinomiya City, Hyogo
"Toyonaka parallel airline with paramodel" Toyonaka City citizens gallery,Art Gallery Hills One,Osaka international airport gallery Osaka
"Daikanyama art street : not authority, but art."
hillside gallery, Tokyo
"SEVENTH ASIA PACIFIC TRIENNIAL (APT7)"
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) and Queensland Art Gallery (QAG),Australia
2011
"VOCA 2011 - Artists on New Plain- "The Ueno Royal Museum
"Kotobuki Creative Action", Kanagawa Plaza,Kanagawa
"Breaker Project:Landscapes on the Verge of Exhibition"Osaka City Modern Museum,Osaka
"Undulationism2"MORI YU GALLERY KYOTO
"POP?POP!POP?"The Museum of morden art,Wakayama
"Art Garden at the Singapore Art Museum"Singapore Art Museum,Singapore
"Hosomi Museum Art Canvas2011"Hosomi Museum,Kyoto
"ROKKO Meats Art 2011"ROKKOSAN!￠Kobe
"Akatsuka Fujio Manga University Exhibition"kyoto international manga museum,Kyoto
"Ways of Worldmaking"The national of art museum ,Osaka
2009
"Viewp oints & Viewing Points ? The 2009 Asian Art Biennial",National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA)
"Between Site & Space", Artspace, Sydney, Australia
"Big in JAPAN" Contemporary Art Centre,VIlnius, Lithuania
"Diorama of the City:Between Site & Space"
Artspace Visual Arts Centre,Sydney, Australia
"From Home to the Museum:Tanaka Tsuneko Collection"
The Museum of Modern Aer,Wakayama
2008
"KITA!!: Japanese Artists Meet Indonesia"
Bandung Center for New Media Art, Indonesia
"Living Together: Desire,Contradiction,Creation"
Kawasaki City Museum
"Extended Senses: Present of japanese/korean Media Art"
NTT InterCommunication Center[ICC], Tokyo
"Akasaka Art Flower 08"
Former Akasaka Elementary School, Tokyo
"Art as a Bridge" Asahi Beer Oyamazaki Villa Museum of Art,Oyamazaki Assembly Hall, Kyoto
2007
"Beautiful New World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan,"Long March (Beijing) & Guandong Museum of Art, Guandong, China
"Dialogue with the City" BankART Studio NYK, Yokohama
"Itineraire" Aomori Contemporary Art Centre
"Painting As Forest : Artst as Thinker"
Okazaki Mindscape Museum,Aichi
2005
"New Art Competition"
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art

Other その他

2012
ART HK 12 (Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre,Hong Kong)
2011
"Parallel Factory"
Maison Hermes Window Display in Ginza / Tokyo
Art Stage Singapore
Art Taipei 2011 (Taipei world trade center,Taiwan)
KIAF 2011
PULSE MIAMI (Miami)
2010
Asia Top Gallery Hotel Art Fair 10 (Grand Hyatt Hong Kong,China)
Mancy’s Tokyo Art Night,(Mancy’s Tokyo)
Art Fair Tokyo 2010,(Tokyo international forum/ Tokyo)
Young Art Taipei 2010,(Sunworld Dynasty Hotel,Taipei,Taiwan)v Art Taipei 2010 (Taipei world trade center,Taiwan)
2009
Art fair Tokyo (Tokyo international forum/ Tokyo)
Young Art Taipei 2009,(Sunworld Dynasty Hotel,Taipei,Taiwan)
Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair 2009,(Toubi Art Forum,Tokyo)
Art@Agnes 2009,(The Agnes Hotel and Apartments Tokyo)
2008
"Paramodelic Xillion-dot Construction"
Maison Hermes Window Display in Ginza / Tokyo
ART@AGNES2008 (agnes hotel / Tokyo)
Art fair Tokyo 2008 (Tokyo international forum/ Tokyo)
2007
Art fair Tokyo 2007 (Tokyo international forum/ Tokyo)
KIAF art fair (Korea)
2005
Feb. "Let’s play the plarail with paramodel vol.02"
at paramodelic graffiti (Kyoto art center / Kyoto)
Aug. "Let’s make the diorama and, play by Gandam"
at Gandam exhinition (Suntory museum/ Osaka)
Nov. "Let’s play the plarail with paramodel vol.03"
at art school (Shikitsu elementary school / Osaka)
Art fair Tokyo (Tokyo international forum/ Tokyo)
Art in CASO 2005 (Kaigandori Gallery CASO / Osaka)
2004
Aug. "Let’s play the plarail with paramodel vol.01"
at Nuigurumi theater (remo / Osaka)
Jul. "Tenasi inu" at sky-blue plastic route (Gallery sowaka / Kyoto)
Aug. "Tenasi inu" at Nuigurumi theater (remo!?Osaka)
2003
Jun. "Paramodels PaPaPa hand-maid flipbook school"
at art in transit vol.5 ?(the Palace side hotel / Kyoto)
Art in CASO 2003 (Kaigandori Gallery CASO / Osaka)
Art cologne 37th international fair for modern art ?(koelmesse / K?ln, Germany)
2002
Oct. "landscape from a window/ music by Yabemilk" at animation soup 2002 (hep five 8f hall / Osaka)
Nov. scratch tile screening + lecture series #14 Kansai night vol.5 ?(Scratch tile / Yokohama)
Nov-Dec "Aozora landscape.marks of the anima" at TOKYO ZONE 2 (Centre Pompidou /Paris, France)
Dec. "Tenasi inu" at Tip Collection 2002-2003 (Ogicho music square /Osaka)

Public Collections パブリックコレクション

  • The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama,Wakayama, JP
  • Nishinomiya Otani commemoration art museum, Hyogo, JP
  • Pigozzi Collection, USA
  • The Museum of Modern Art Wakayama
  • Nishinomiya Otani commemoration art museum
  • Pigozzi Collection

Publications 出版

2024
Kanata o yomu: Sora to umi no aida no P (P Shuppan, sole author)『かなたをよむ：空と海のあいだのP』（P出版、単著）
2021
Paradoxical Reading, Plastic Paratext - Yusuke Nakano / PARAMODEL 2010-2020 (Seigensha, sole author)『まちがeる読み、ｉかれた挿し絵　中野裕介／パラモデル 2010-2020　Paradoxical Reading, Plastic Paratext - Yusuke Nakano / PARAMODEL 2010-2020』（青幻舎、単著）
2010
Paramodel (Seigensha, co-authored as the unit)『Paramodel パラモデル』（青幻舎、ユニットでの著作）