Kazuhito Tanaka: Picture(s)
Past exhibition
Overview
Kazuhito Tanaka, Picture(s) #56, 2023, Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas, 34 x 25 x 6,8 cm, courtesy of the artist
Picture(s)An abstract painting, a composition of torn chromogenic photograms exposed in the darkroom, and an acrylic box sealing their fate. There is no hierarchy to their plane, they influence each other while presenting their differences as a medium. A conversation is present that is devoid of these mediums’ historic tensions. Ripped and folded photograms are layered and emerging off the canvas. They mimic the paint strokes while their color and sculptural form are evidently more vivid than the paint.Painting, who are you? Photography, who are you? Or, who am I, without imagery?Kazuhito Tanaka
Works
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Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #53, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #54, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #55, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #56, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #57, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #58, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #59, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #60, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #61, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #62, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #63, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #64, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #65, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in -
Kazuhito TanakaPicture(s) #66, 2023Acrylic and analog chromogenic print on canvas34 x 25 x 6,8 cm
13 3/8 x 9 7/8 x 2 3/8 in
Press release
Picture(s)
An abstract painting, a composition of torn chromogenic photograms exposed in the darkroom, and an acrylic box sealing their fate. There is no hierarchy to their plane, they influence each other while presenting their differences as a medium. A conversation is present that is devoid of these mediums’ historic tensions. Ripped and folded photograms are layered and emerging off the canvas. They mimic the paint strokes while their color and sculptural form are evidently more vivid than the paint.
Painting, who are you? Photography, who are you? Or, who am I, without imagery?
About the artist
Born in 1973 in Saitama, Japan. After graduating Meiji University in 1996 and then working as a corporate employee, he moved to New York. Graduated from School of VISUAL ARTS (NY) in 2004. Questioning the relations in between photography and painting, he explores new abstract expressions using photographic medium. He also organizes exhibitions as a curator in parallel with his career as an artist. He is a director of artist-run- space soda founded by him in 2018 in Kyoto. Currently lives and works in Kyoto and Fukuoka, Japan.
Recent solo exhibitions include Picture(s), KANA KAWANISHI GALLERY, Tokyo (2022), Picture(s), Paris London Hong Kong, Chicago (2022), Gravity and Light, soda, Kyoto (2020), Self-Dual, Gallery PARC, Kyoto (2019), Trans / Real -The potential of Intangible Art vol.7 Kazuhito Tanaka, gallery αM, Tokyo (2017), pLastic_fLowers, Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo (2015), etc. Recent group exhibitions include FGC July Exhibitions (with DOCUMANT), Foreland, Catskill (2022), Wind and Images, Sprout Curation, Tokyo (2021), TAMA VIVANT II, Tama Art University, Tokyo (2019), NEW BALANCE #3, XYZ collective, Tokyo (2015), hyper-materiality on photo, G/P gallery shinonome, Tokyo (2015), etc. Recent curations include Never the Same Ocean, soda + HAGIWARA PROJECTS, Tokyo (2021), S/F -Photography, or a Monolith after 200 years-, KAYOKOYUKI + soda, Tokyo (2019), Photographs by 7 Painters, soda, Kyoto (2018), etc.
He was awarded TOKYO FRONTLINE PHOTO AWARD 2011.
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