Motus Fort is pleased to announce Hiro Kurata's Debut Solo exhibition in Tokyo. Hiro Kurata often paints a fantastic and binary world. Living between countries, he shares a multiple enthusiasm for each location. His doubled compositions tend to have a confused duel between disassociated sports while supplying a hybrid referee + baseball player instead of an umpire. These little discrepancies and alterations replicate the psyche's fantastic disregard for facts, churning up looming symbols that inspire emotion, but rarely bear out under scrutiny and attempts to assemble our mental puzzles. Much like dreams they are vivid, amazing but difficult to pin down and examine. Titles like Cain and Abel, hint at a deeper struggle; perhaps it is a struggle of the self trying to kill off a seemingly less acceptable iteration of being. The insistence of Slugger implies a hero of sorts, but instead of being another larger person, it is the form of ourself as a physical super-hero, a fan-pleasing, power hitter.

Stripes further this binary existence. The referee melds with striped suits of several baseball teams both from Japan and America. Fantasies are built upon the intermingling of dreams, TV, and reality, problems to be solved manifest themselves and our desire for protection is placed on physically empowered Sluggers. These paintings are part of Hiro Kurata's ongoing exploration with being in several places at once, mentally spiritually, and physically.