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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

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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