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Kazuyuki Takezaki "Bio Topos"

Misako & Rosen
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Artists

Kazuyuki Takezaki
Kazuyuki Takezaki was born in 1976 in Kochi Prefecture, Japan. He received his BA from Kochi University in 1999; following graduation,Takezaki relocated to Tokyo to continue his art practice.

Takezaki utilizes an abstract visual vocabulary to articulate fleeting, direct and remembered impressions of immediate experiences within a given place. His chosen medium is painting; however, the work is executed in a mixed-media format eliminating clear distinctions between established genre such as drawing and sculpture. The paintings share an immediate quality with drawing and re-present an ephemeral and open view of given experience within painted space.Paradoxically,this cerebral approach to painting results in work at once atmospheric and highly sensual; a re-presentation of place.

Takezaki recalls the fact of his birthplace; however this recollection has no connection to nostalgia or longing. The word 'BIOTOPE' served as a conceptual point of departure; a space inhabited by living beings and its structured environment. Or, more loosely, a garden in general, a space occupied by living trees as well as discarded domestic items...a stray cat lounging and leaving, an insect there then gone.
Takezaki is concerned with the simple fact of landscape. This concern is examined in the form of a series of new paintings within an installation.

Takezaki's new paintings will be displayed in the form of installation.

[Image: "Forest in Shinjo" (2008) oil & watercolor on canvas, artificial feather, 81 x 99cm]

Schedule

Sep 8 (Mon) 2008-Oct 12 (Sun) 2008 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-18:00
Closes at 17:00 on Sundays.
Closed
Monday, Tuesday, Holidays

Opening Reception Sep 8 (Mon) 2008 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
Websitehttp://www.misakoandrosen.com/en/exhibitions/08/09/
VenueMisako & Rosen
http://www.misakoandrosen.jp/en/
Location1F, 3-27-6 Kita-Otsuka, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-0004
Access4 minute walk from Sugamoshinden Station on the Toden Arakawa line, 8 minute walk from the North exit of Otsuka Station on the JR Yamanote line.
Phone03-6276-1452
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