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Yukimi Kanaya "Polycentrhythm"
Gallery Maki
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Yukimi Kanaya
The plants in Kanaya's work are all grown and cultivated in her home and atelier. Her watercolor drawings are created by pressing dried flowers, preserving them, and then scanning and tracing their forms.
Kanaya takes each of these plants apart on the picture surface, makes modifications to them and thereby transforms them into a new type of "plant." She introduces an element of complexity and chaos to the materiality of her chosen pigments and watercolors, attempting a faithful recreation of the relationships between plants in a garden.
By also using the juice and sap from these leaves and flowers, Kanaya produces material changes in her paintings by delegating responsibility for a certain portion of the resulting image to the pictorial surface itself. Her Cycle-Viola series from 2003 is now into its 7th generation this year. Although the annual workings and processes of these violas do not change much from year to year, this work is testament to the endless flow of time.
The title for this exhibition is a portmanteau word derived from "polycentrism" and "rhythm" - the latter understood also as the effects that arise from the interrelated harmony that exists among structural elements.
Kanaya takes each of these plants apart on the picture surface, makes modifications to them and thereby transforms them into a new type of "plant." She introduces an element of complexity and chaos to the materiality of her chosen pigments and watercolors, attempting a faithful recreation of the relationships between plants in a garden.
By also using the juice and sap from these leaves and flowers, Kanaya produces material changes in her paintings by delegating responsibility for a certain portion of the resulting image to the pictorial surface itself. Her Cycle-Viola series from 2003 is now into its 7th generation this year. Although the annual workings and processes of these violas do not change much from year to year, this work is testament to the endless flow of time.
The title for this exhibition is a portmanteau word derived from "polycentrism" and "rhythm" - the latter understood also as the effects that arise from the interrelated harmony that exists among structural elements.
Schedule | Jun 19 (Fri) 2009-Jul 10 (Fri) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Jun 19 (Fri) 2009 18:00 - 00:00 | ||||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Venue | Gallery Maki | ||||||
| Location | 1-31-8 Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0033 | ||||||
| Access | 10 minutes walk from Exit 2 at Suitengumae Station on the Hibiya Line; 10 minutes walk from Exit 3 at Kayabacho Station on the Tozai Line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-3297-0717 | ||||||
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