Hiromart Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Wah Steel, the exhibition of new paintings by a Berlin-based Canadian artist Robin Fry who is known as a painter and performing artist. This is his second solo-show with Hiromart Gallery following his favorably received debut show in Japan held in 2012.

The show features the works from new project 'Psychedelic Rock Opera' by Robin Fry and this will be his long-term project with potential that will lead to paintings, writing, sounds and performance. In this show, Robin Fry pursues and expands his abstract art bringing in figurative arts into abstract within the werewolf, harlequin and mime for his Psychedelic Rock Opera. Fry will presents narrative abstract paintings as a story teller to viewers.

Artist Statement on Wah Steel:
Each of these recent paintings envisions a partially abstract sculpture depicting a figure which represents an unrealized subject for a yet to be written psychedelic rock opera. The paintings operate as distorting or prismatic windows into the world of the opera, giving a glimpse of the various players within it. The lead role is a werewolf with a fetish for certain 1980's instruction manuals for various electronic devices. Naming himself after a synthesized steel drum he is 'Wah Steel'.

Courtesy of Hiromart Gallery Tokyo