Works
Crawling Through the Thorns
2023
coloured pencil on board, 74 x 54.5 x 3.5 cm
Pyramid Rainbow
2023
coloured pencil on board, 40 x 30 x 3.5 cm
Daffodil Competition
2023
coloured pencil on board, 30 x 20 cm
Wintertime
2023
coloured pencil on board, 30 x 20 cm
On the Table
2022
coloured pencil on board, 15 x 10cm
Between Lemons + cactus
2022
colored pencil on wood plate, 13 x 8cm
Early Summer
2022
colored pencil on wood plate, 22 x 22cm
My Fear
2020
colored pencil on wood plate, 15 x 10 cm
Take My Sadness
2020
colored pencil on wood, 40 × 30cm
The Pool
2020
colored pencil on wood, 54 × 44cm
Haze of Yellow Forest
2020
colored pencil on wood, 54 x 44cm
A Landscape with Seven Reflections
2020
colored pencil on wood, 54 x 44cm
Lost Paradise
2020
colored pencil on wood, 150 × 120cm
"The other side of hope" installation view at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
2020
"The other side of hope" installation view at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
2020
"The other side of hope" installation view at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
2020
"The other side of hope" installation view at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
2020
Blue rainbow
2017
Color pencils on wood 84 x 59.5 x 2.2 cm 33.1 x 23.4 x 0.9 in
Twos
2014
Color pencils on wood 84.1 x 59.4 x 0.5 cm 33.1 x 23.4 x 0.2 in
Untitled (study for sculpture )
2016
pencil on paper 17.5 x 11 cm 4.3 x 6.9 in
Dawn
2017
Color pencils on wood 84 x 59.5 x 2.2cm
2017
right：The invisible seacape (Hiroshima) left：The invisible landscape (Hiroshima)
Omnipresence
2017
Color pencils on wood 204 x 280 x 2.2 cm
"Colours of Hiroshima" Installation view at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
2017
"Colours of Hiroshima" Installation view at MAHO KUBOTA GALLERY
2017
2016
Installation view of “GENBI SHINKANSEN”
The Potter Nigata
2015
Color pencils on wood 40 x 30 cm
Yukisarashi Niigata
2015
Color pencils on wood 40 x 30 cm
2015
“Domani” Installation view at The National Art Center, Tokyo
2015
“Domani” Installation view at The National Art Center, Tokyo
2015
“Domani” Installation view at The National Art Center, Tokyo
The Last Night
2014
Color pencils on wood 160 × 500 cm
Recordings
2014
Color pencils on wood 150 × 120 cm
White Forest
2014
Color pencils on wood 160 × 300 cm
2012
“Letters” Installation view at Nakata Museum, Hiroshima
2012
“Letters” Installation view at Nakata Museum, Hiroshima
Nami to kitsune
2011
Color pencils on wood 120 × 300 cm
2009
Entrance window commissioned work/ GYRE Omotesando
Born in Hiroshima 1975, and currently lives and works in London. Kobuke graduated from Kuwasawa Design Institute in1998, from Chelsea College of Arts MFA in 2009. He received the Fellowship of Overseas Study Program for Artists by the Agency for Cultural Affairs by the Japanese Government.
Kobuke creates fantastic paintings (drawings) evoking references to mythology and fairy tales using a distinctive method in which he draws with colored pencils directly onto boards of natural wood. He is acclaimed for a style of symbolic motifs submerged in a richness of expression reminiscent of the Transavantgarde movement. His Letters series poetically depicts the traces of communication residing in media such as envelopes and paper. The artist frequently works with partners in a number of fields, producing commissioned works for public art and collaborations with apparel brands.
His recent exhibitions include “17th DOMANI：The Art of Tomorrow” The National Art Center, Tokyo (2015), “Letters” Nakata Museum, Onomichi, Hiroshima (2012), “Mokume” Daiwa Foundation, London (2012), “The Frank Suss Collection” Phillips de Pury & Company, Saatchi Gallery, London (2010)
News
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- 2024.04.17
- Kentaro Kobuke: Paintings + Drawings + Sculpture
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- 2023.11.21
- Kentaro Kobuke, Solo Exhibition "Evergreen Haze"＠SCÈNE, Tokyo
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- 2022.12.01
- Kentaro Kobuke：hana @ Nova Contemporary、Bangkok
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- 2021.09.18
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Kentaro Koboke : Collaboration with Maison Kitsuné
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- 2021.09.18
- Kentaro Kobuke : Book launch exhibition @BOOKMARC
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- 2021.09.10
- Kentaro Kobuke: New art book
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- 2021.07.17
- "Four Women at Colenimo" Colenimo, London
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- 2021.06.09
- Kentaro Kobuke: Painters + Collection 2021, Nakata Museum
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- 2020.09.01
- artTNZ
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- 2020.07.29
- Posting on Dear Art (EC site)
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- 2018.06.02
- Kentaro Kobuke: "Painters" Nakata Museum, Onomichi
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- 2018.05.01
- Kentaro Kobuke, AKI INOMATA: Genbi Shinkansen
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- 2017.12.01
- Gallery participates Untitled Miami Beach art fair
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- 2017.08.01
- Kentaro Kobuke : MINA-TO SUMMER FESTIVAL “FUTURE STAR”, Spiral, Tokyo
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- 2017.04.18
- Kentaro Kobuke an artwork for Tsutaya Electrics, Hiroshima City
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- 2016.04.29
- Centro Kobuke "GENBI SHINKANSEN"
Biography