faro WORKPLACE

This exhibition presents the work of Enrico Isamu Oyama, whose unique artistic practice encompasses intersecting cultures to create works that are bold and edgy.

Faro is a shared office space driven by the concept of “working with joy and fulfillment” and seeks to create a space that encourages interaction and stimulates creativity through art, architecture, design, and music. As part of this concept, we have been collecting artwork that can be placed throughout our office facilities. This spring, we established “faro WORKPLACE”, a gallery space within our newly open shared office in Nakameguro. By curating artists from Japan and abroad, this initiative allows us to present works in a more broad and thoughtful way to our audience.
This exhibition is curated from the collection.

Exhibited in the space with an almost overwhelming impressiveness is FFIGURATI #84, extending 3.6 meters in length. FFIGURATI combines the words “graffiti” and “figùra ti” from Italian, meaning “figure of yourself”. While the work is deeply informed by street art, it depicts the symbolic motif of “Quick Turn Structure” which eliminates letters from the visual language of aerosol writing, where writing a name is a form of self-expression, and extracts only the movement of lines, dynamism, spatiality, and plastic elements, which are then repeated and reconstructed.

Along with this powerful work, there will also be drawings on display based on the same motif that have an intimate appeal.

Oyama’s creativity, which comes from his upbringing straddling borders, a practice that is based in New York and Tokyo, and his skillful merging of street culture with contemporary art to continue transcending mediums, will enrich the already lively environment of faro, where people from diverse industries and nationalities gather.

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