DAISUKE FUKUNAGA – BEAUTIFUL WORK
2022-03-21The exhibition is Fukunaga’s first solo exhibition outside of his native Japan.
The artworks on view feature “the worker” in active and passive states, always with a pleasant expression.
In the gallery’s large space, the exhibition’s namesake work, Beautiful Work is a frontal portrait of a pert person, perhaps a chambermaid preparing to clean up after others. Compositionally echoing Edouard Manet’s Un bar aux Folies-Bergere, Fukunaga’s ready subject contrasts to the weariness of Manet’s barmaid. In the same room, Crawler in the City is a self-portrait of the artist as a lone Google mapper, while Dance casts cart-pushing co-workers in an homage to Matisse’s icon of euphoric choreography.
Opposite – Beautiful work, 2022
Exhibition runs through to May 14th, 2022
Nonaka-Hill
720 N. Highland Ave.
CA 90038
Los Angeles
