NAKANO yasuhiro

NAKANO yasuhiro worked for a major art gallery while in college. After graduation, he worked as a video director and CG creator in Japan.

He directed the “Transformers: Robots in Disguise” ED, which was distributed worldwide. He has experience as a director of animation and film trailers, and currently works in media art.

In 2011, after tens of thousands of hours of video production experience, he was inspired by the strong urge to make the instantaneous beauty of video permanent, and began work on the world's first media art “moving Japanese painting in a frame,” a painting that moves endlessly.

In 2024, he experienced the death of someone close to him and created a series of works that question the “presence” or “absence” of existence. The work is a simultaneous coexistence of an analog depiction of constant existence drawn on the surface and a CG image of the background that can be turned “on” and “off” by a power source.

Both work were created using “Mineral-pigments”, “Sumi-ink”, which are mainly used in Japanese painting, and CG, which he has experienced in animation production in Japan.

The originally developed moving image display technology is intentionally composed using only a simple moving image playback system in order to achieve a permanent presence, which is the purpose of the work. This is because he concluded from his experience in video production that this is the only way to keep the digital part of the work from becoming obsolete in the fast-evolving world of technology.

Traditional depiction techniques and a simple proprietary system form the entire work, which is shaped by a special frame registered as a utility model in Japan.

The combination of old and new technology and objective market value may not have a big impact on some people, However, NAKANO continues its activities with the belief that the steady accumulation of such efforts will lead to the creation of a new value called “moving Japanese paintings”