1995 Japan
KOUHEI FUKUSHIMA was born in 1995, in Fukuoka, Japan, he lived in Shimane and Hiroshima until the age of 11, then move to Yokohama. At university and high school, he majored in the Faculty of Architectural Environment. He formed a band, assigned dram when he was a student. In 2015, he became a professional BMX rider, and he began working as an artist in 2018. And original character Bucket Bear was born in 2019. He is an heterodox artist who uses an overwhelming amount of input and updates his expressions based on universal sensibilities. He approaches creative themes deeply, captures their essence, and then reconstructs and incorporates them into his works. He sees things from a bird's-eye view and sees the world with sensitivity, and there is always a question in his expressions.This is both aesthetic(wabi-sabi) and the way it is perceived. Therefore, his painting style is often abstract, and is characterized by a philosophy that draws into you with extremely simple compositions and a balanced color scheme.
Serialism
I destruction the Gestalt for the viewer by vaguely the depth and continuous structure of space inherent in a flat surface, I created different perspectives and possibilities and named method of expression is "Serialism"
Here and Now focus
Gestalt approach has the basic premise that life happens in the present not in the past or the future and that when we are dwelling on the past or fantasizing about the future we are not living fully. Through living in the present we are able to take responsibility for our responses and actions. To be fully present in the here and now offers us more excitement, energy, and courage to live life directly.
Green apple
The most important aspect of this Green apple is the process of discovering the perception gap.
Green apple is called "AORINGO" in Japanese.
AO means blue, RINGO means apple.
To learn about this, we have to go back to Japan about 1000 years ago. Before Heian period, blue included green, purple and even gray. This difference in perception unique to the Japanese people has created own culture and sensibility.
This Green apple to tell us how important to respect each other's idea and value.
Two-dimensional works featuring beautiful girls are part of Japan's identity, and until this day they have established a unique position. I consider that there is a background of misogyny in the development and establishment of Japan's unique culture.
Before the Edo period(Edo period; from 1603 to 1867) getting married and raising children before one had the wisdom to do so was filial piety, a kind of custom.
Shunga(pornographic painting) with young girls as motifs were also very popular in Ukiyo-e at the time.
The beautiful girl complex is one of the sexual minorities that is caused by this above-mentioned factors traditional custom of early marriage, and has a certain status in today's Japan.
The reasons for its development can be seen in the deformation express in postwar manga and anime in Japan, as well as the wide range of expression in popular culture due to the legal and cultural system and the low number of crimes in Japan.
Sexual tendencies that are considered abnormal overseas were protected by Japan's high sequlity of public safety, and as it spread to the masses, it became established as a kind of preference.
The origin of the word Maid, which is representative of Japanese Otaku(kind of anorak,fanboy,nerd,wonk) culture also means an unmarried young woman.
And we can get a glimpse of the complex flow of a type for bondage fashon to Maid cafes through games and anime.
It can be said that it is a unique field, blurred boundaries with acceptable or not acceptable is can't define that has matured over many years in Japan through its own development by breaking away from realism.
Japan's realism may lie in the subcultures that have supported culture and history that have been weeded out by other countries.
