Collections of Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2022
Kodai Nakahara 1961 -
Kodai Nakahara 1961 -
Selection by Osamu Ikeda, former director of BankART1929
In the early 1980s, he began participating in various independent group exhibitions organized by students of the same generation andpresenting his works. He continued to use many diffrent materials and styles to create installations, sculptures, and 2D and 3D works. Later, triggered by doubts about his previous works and artist activities, since his 1990 solo exhibition, "Homage to the LEGO age", he had made various attempts to rethink his own way of being. After a period of distance from his activities in the late 1990s, since 2000, he has been pursuing a wide range of activities including participating in collaborative researches and projects such as "AAS Artistic Approaches to the Universe" project, recording observations of swallows roosting on the ground, and planning exhibitions that list his own drawings in childhood.
中原浩大は、80年代前半より同世代の学生を中心とする様々な自主企画によるグループ展に参加し、作品の発表活動を始める。多様な素材を用いて様々にスタイルを変えながら、インスタレーション・立体・平面などの制作を続ける。その後、それまでの作品制作や作家活動への疑問を契機に、1990年の個展「Homage to the LEGO age」以降、自身のあり方を問い直そうとする意識から様々な試みを行う。90年代後半の発表活動から距離を置いた時期を経て、2000年以降は「AAS 宇宙への芸術的アプローチ」などの共同研究やプロジェクトへの参加、ツバメの塒入りの観察記録、自己の幼少期の描画物を一覧する展示を企画するなど、幅広い活動を志向し展開している。