Nobuhiro Hanaoka was born in Hiroshima Prefecture in 1980 and in 2006 completed the master's program at the Graduate School of Art, Kyoto Seika University. In 2009 he received the <Special Prize> at the 12th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art exhibition. This is his first solo exhibition at MORI YU GALLERY. 'Things and traces made by the repetition of an act. These sometimes go beyond the purpose of that act and change into something else, something new. I am interested in things like this, which continue to exist while deviating from their original purpose.' Nobuhiro Hanaoka The exhibition title 'Immaterial excretion', inspired by the works of Art Brut in which Hanaoka is interested, means, after all, some act that has come out irresistibly from the drive of life, or its traces. Hanaoka thinks about how to draw out the interest of the form finally arrived at without connection, and the sense of incongruity produced by combinations of meanings. Hidden in Hanaoka's works are humor and at the same time a kind of pleasantness, and a lasting 'incongruity' cast toward the viewer. Hanaoka's 'three-dimensional works by sculpture', which always slip away from viewers the moment the sensation is put into words, exist while shifting even various historical concepts. (Quoted from a text by Mr. Kobayashi of the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art) For Hanaoka's first solo exhibition at MORI YU GALLERY, we respectfully request the pleasure of your visit, together with your friends.