Artist: Yu Nishimura Venue: Crèvecoeur, Paris Exhibition Title: Scene of beholder Date: October 16 – November 21, 2020 Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Crèvecoeur, Paris Press Release: In Yu Nishimura’s first exhibition at the gallery, which is also his first exhibition in Europe, there are thirteen paintings, all produced in 2020. The smallest one, Arts and Crafts measures 27.3 × 22 cm, and the largest Thicket , 259 × 182 cm. What immediately comes across is an effect of superimposition of several layers, which provokes a slight misalignment. This shift that occurs in his painting (literally) blurs the frontiers between realism (related to photographic mimesis) and abstraction (the universe inherent to an image), between the foreground and the background, and between the different points of view from which the spectator looks...