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[Image: Kanata Goto "Structure Image" (2016) wood, metal, nylon threads 246.5 x 144 x 3 cm]

Kanata Goto Solo Show “Through The Grid”

Frantic Gallery
Finished

Artists

Kanata Goto
Kanata Goto’s image might look rather similar to painting; simply with lines of threads instead of strokes of oil. Nevertheless, the medium, the creation process and eventual relationship of his image with the viewer is, after closer inspection, fundamentally different. First, Goto fixes the metal/wooden structure following purely geometric logic. Stretching his threads, Goto with his imagination, unconsciousness – with his human side - enters the grid but while being tied by the media (both the structure of the base and linearity of the thread) searches for…freedom, for singularity, for escape… The process can give birth to anthropomorphic image (face or uterus, for example, hinting back on the structural base, the symmetry of the human body itself). It can create a space with three-dimensional effect and illusion of perspective (although cunningly similar to the bee-hive or the space of the aliens space-ship as depicted in sci-fi cinema). By cracking the repetitive pattern with irregularity, it might push the image into the direction of “sacred” and provoke the imaginary for worship. Finally, shortcutting distant epochs and subjects, Goto’s works recall simultaneously the primitive man, which makes a first notch of creativity, as well as cyberpunk character with his quest to breakout from the super-structure using its own systematic means.

Schedule

Nov 11 (Fri) 2016-Nov 13 (Sun) 2016 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-19:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays
FeeFree
Websitehttp://frantic.jp/en/exhibition-next/through_the_grid.html
VenueFrantic Gallery
Location1F IID, 2-4-5 Ikejiri, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 154-0001
Access9 minute walk from the South exit of Ikejiri-ohashi Station on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi line.
Phone03-3410-1325
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