Nihonga style painter Daisuke Nakano (b. 1974) uses an animated expression method that imbue his images with a vitality and tangible liveliness. He is precise, visionary, and patient, only producing a single artwork a year as he painstakingly perfects every line to capture perpetual movement. He depicts a sense of time standing still.
Nakano explores a unique sense of space particular to Japanese fine art. Drawing on traditional Japanese painting materials, Nakano is inspired to use gold or silver leaf as a base—a method developed by Ito Jakuchu or the Rinpa School. Depicting the overwhelming power of nature and the climax of life, evanescence and sorrow take center stage: flowers in full bloom will eventually fall and return to the earth. It is the intoxicating paradox of life
Biography
Graduated from Doda Bijutsu Kogei High School. At the young age of 19, Daisuke exhibited his artwork at the group exhibition.
2019 Solo exhibition Burst of Nature (Ippodo Gallery New York, USA)
Exhibition at Saga Arashiyama Museum of Arts and Culture (Kyoto, Japan)
2020 Exhibition, A Brush With Beauty at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (USA)
Public Collection:
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
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Light and Abundance: Gold in Japanese Art
13 Mar - 17 Apr 2025Exhibition opens Thursday, March 13, 2025 35 N Moore Street, TriBeCa New York, NY — GRAND OPENING Ippodo Gallery invites you to join our inaugural opening of the new downtown...Read more -
Painting Radiance
Light and Nature in the Art of Daisuke Nakano 25 Mar - 23 Apr 2021If There is a Heaven Daisuke Nakano creates paintings of light. I think, if heaven exists, it would resemble the landscapes of Nakano’s creation. Following Illuminating All Over the World,...Read more -
Burst of Nature
Nihonga paintings by Daisuke Nakano 7 Mar - 6 Apr 2019Burst of Nature Shoko Aono A nandina plant with red berries struggles under the weight of the falling snow while a marten holds its breath, its eyes gazing in our...Read more
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Grand Opening | Inaugural Exhibition Opening Reception
13 Mar 2025Coinciding with Asia Week New York 2025 Venue : NEW Ippodo Gallery Flagship in TriBeCa (35 N. Moore Street, New York, 10013) When : 5:00...Read more -
Painting Paradise
The Art of Daisuke Nakano 12 Jun - 18 Jul 2021Daisuke Nakano is an avant-garde visual artist who uses the centuries-old Nihonga -style painting technique to capture the elusiveness of light and vivacious spirit of...Read more -
Artist Talk
Daisuke Nakano x Frank Feltens 25 Mar 2021Find some time to walk in the world of Japanese paintings. Join us this Wednesday at 7:30pm EST for the first in our Artist Talk...Read more -
Conversations from Home Vol.2
Daisuke Nakano x John Teramoto 14 May 2020Featuring: Daisuke Nakano, Painter John Teramoto, the Curator of Asian Art at the Indianapolis Museum at Newfields Click Recorded videoRead more
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About the Motif:
Similarities between Massimo Micheluzzi works and Japanese Aesthetics. November 10, 2021Massimo Micheluzzi, a Venetian artist at Ippodo Gallery, may seem like an unusual combination. However, Massimo's designs and patterns align with Japanese aesthetics or resemble...Read more -
Exhibition Highlights:
Details of Daisuke Nakano April 20, 2021Our first spring exhibtion since the pandemic, Painting Radiance: Light and Nature in the Art of Daisuke Nakano celebrates the artist's painterly skill and surveys...Read more