Apple is an exhibition of new paintings by Berlin-based Japanese artist Shota Nakamura. He chooses his subjects—fruit, shells, sailboats, and soft landscapes—for their ordinariness and recurrence in art history. In Nakamura’s paintings, they are not narrative or symbolic, but vessels for formal exploration. The works investigate tonality of light and the question of what kind of tone constructs a space. Working at the edge of monochrome, Nakamura carves out depth only to thwart it, affirming light and color as the building blocks of painterly architecture.
