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Katsunori Kobayashi
We are delighted to announce Katsunori Kobayashi’s first solo show at NCA. We will exhibit eighteen works including both color and monochrome photographs, as well as sculptures related to the subjects of the photos.
Can poetry take a tangible form, or even be wrapped in colors?
This is the question that Katsunori Kobayashi attempts to answer.
Minutely detailed bronze miniatures of a swing and a jungle gym. Something with a plaster-like texture blankets these surfaces – white expanses, like snowy fields on a table. Are these images from a forgotten past left to gather dust, or a dream of the future? The flat ground that resembles a town square, once loaded with plates, spoons and jugs, seems to return to its original state: just a table. Kobayashi’s camera focus makes these objects appear clearly, whereas their surroundings become only dimly visible in the patchy haze, transforming themselves into a more poetic reality. Pop colors like blue, green and red occasionally emerge to add a touch of color to the scene, producing a vital rhythm in the imagery.
Kobayashi’s work hovers between reality and unreality, existence and imagination, memory and time, collapse and reconstruction – it is precisely the conflict and tension between these contradictory terms that imbues it with poetry. This unique space created by Kobayashi crystallizes out of the medium of photography, full of a faint, quivering and beautiful poetry. (Fumio Nanjo, Director of The Mori Art Museum)
Can poetry take a tangible form, or even be wrapped in colors?
This is the question that Katsunori Kobayashi attempts to answer.
Minutely detailed bronze miniatures of a swing and a jungle gym. Something with a plaster-like texture blankets these surfaces – white expanses, like snowy fields on a table. Are these images from a forgotten past left to gather dust, or a dream of the future? The flat ground that resembles a town square, once loaded with plates, spoons and jugs, seems to return to its original state: just a table. Kobayashi’s camera focus makes these objects appear clearly, whereas their surroundings become only dimly visible in the patchy haze, transforming themselves into a more poetic reality. Pop colors like blue, green and red occasionally emerge to add a touch of color to the scene, producing a vital rhythm in the imagery.
Kobayashi’s work hovers between reality and unreality, existence and imagination, memory and time, collapse and reconstruction – it is precisely the conflict and tension between these contradictory terms that imbues it with poetry. This unique space created by Kobayashi crystallizes out of the medium of photography, full of a faint, quivering and beautiful poetry. (Fumio Nanjo, Director of The Mori Art Museum)
Schedule | Feb 27 (Fri) 2009-Mar 19 (Thu) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Feb 27 (Fri) 2009 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | NCA | Nichido Contemporary Art http://www.nca-g.com  | ||||
| Location | 102, 7-21-24 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0032 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 7 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line, 7 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6384-5310 | ||||
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