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Shimomura Yusuke

​下村　優介

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I was a rugby player for ten years when I was a student. After graduating from college, I got a job at a ramen shop.Started paper cutting art by self-study in 2012.   I held my first solo exhibition in July of the same year.
I'm pursuing a new expression in a paper cutting art. And I'm aiming for a way to create and exhibit works that overturn the concept i've never had.
I'm active mainly Osaka. Since 2014, I have been participating in art fairs in Paris for three consecutive years.I also went directly to cities like New York, Madrid and Wellington. 
I am actively engaged in activities with a view to overseas, such as holding "paper cutting art classes" at local schools.As digitalization progresses, I once again express the value of manual work, which is the basis of making things, through paper cutting art.

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The work of cutting is to adjust the drawn line. And create a space of nothingness.　We are in the midst of technological advances that shake human values, and digitization is undergoing rapid change every day.During that time, I felt the potential and value of manual paper-cutting and explored the limits of its expression.　I am aiming to express paper-cutting as a space by seeking an energetic and dynamic feeling with movement in my work and making use of the shadows peculiar to paper-cutting.
Changing from static art to dynamic art is the new concept I seek for paper-cutting.

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