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ARTWORKS
鬼頭 健吾 / Kengo Kito
cartwheel galaxy
Year: 2019
Materials: Canvas, acrylic, glitter, glass, spray paint
Size: H1460 W1130 mm
Location: 1F Public Area
Artist's Statement:
Cartwheel Galaxy is the result of drawing lines with a squeegee and then repeatedly dripping and splattering paint over them. The paint used is straight from the tube, in its pure, unmixed form. The large physical movements create the squeegee marks and paint layers, while the glass and glitter particles scattered across these layers form multifaceted surfaces. Ultimately, the canvas's surface becomes a concentrated accumulation of light.
PROFILE
Kengo Kito
Born in Aichi Prefecture in 1977. Professor at Kyoto University of the Arts.
Graduated from the Western Painting Course, Department of Painting, Nagoya University of the Arts in 2001. Completed the Master's Program in Oil Painting, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Kyoto City University of Arts in 2003. Major solo exhibitions include “Multiple Star I, II, III” at Hara Museum ARC. Group exhibitions include: “Roppongi Crossing 2007: Pulse of the Future,” The National Art Center, Tokyo “Artist File,” The State Hermitage Museum “Mono No Aware,” Takamatsu City Museum of Art “The Secret of Gihou.” This year, his solo exhibition will be held at the Kyoto Ceramic Art Museum in Kyoto City as its first exhibition following its reopening. In 2008, he received the Goto Memorial Award for Culture, spent a year in New York, and subsequently worked in Berlin, Germany. His works, which fuse the modern, colorful aesthetic of industrial products like hula hoops and shampoo bottles with expansive qualities evoking living organisms and the cosmos, have earned high acclaim both domestically and internationally.