EXHIBITION

Masaho Anotani

Border of Wonder, Disorder You Shine

25/Aug/2018 - 6/Oct/2018

Masaho Anotani combines various media such as drawing, collage and spray painting, and depicts instinct, epidermal sensations, observations, doubts, and impulses, sometimes in direct ways and sometimes in surreal ways. His work has attracted attention from the fields of fashion and design, and he has presented many collaborations with fashion brands including COMME des GARCONS and ZUCCa. In 2016 his work was featured in STEIDL - WERK No. 23: MASAHO ANOTANI “DEFORMED”, created by the celebrated Singaporean designer Theseus Chan and the publisher STEIDL.

 

“Light” is a keyword for this exhibition. Anotani contributes a poem and a statement:

 

T


O


P


rainbow


U


SHINE


Space–Place


fLy


NOise Land–NO isLand


Answers Come Into Dope


disorder


over


DIN–DAY–DEAD–DNA


Don’t mind


zombies


light wind


WOOD–SLEEP–SUNSET–STREAM


like you


R


FREE


intersection like


A


TREE


Light meets Light


will


Shine


 

We are moving towards the time of losing humanity.
Everything moves at high speed beyond recognition, overflowing from our hands.
These noises are accumulated quietly, piling up so high that they even look down on us.
Being ruled by something insubstantial.
I have stopped trying to catch up with it.
Sunlight filtering through trees, morning dew, river surfaces, people and places I like, music, good food… Each is just an ephemeral light in that particular moment.
I proceed at the speed I live. Towards myself, you, and the light.
Everyone actually knows it.
I want to shine, and want to be illuminated.

 

This exhibition will feature new works, including works on Japanese paper mounted onto panels, as well as wall drawings.

 

General information

Exhibition
Masaho Anotani "Border of Wonder, Disorder You Shine"

Dates
August 25 - October 6, 2018

Hours
11 am - 6 pm / Tue, Wed, Thu and Saturday
11 am - 8 pm / Friday
Closed on Sun, Mon and National Holidays

Location
KOSAKU KANECHIKA
TERRADA Art Complex 5F
1-33-10 Higashi-Shinagawa
Shinagawa-ku
Tokyo
140-0002
+81(0)3-6712-3346
kosakukanechika.com

Free Admission




Masaho Anotani

Masaho Anotani was born in 1991 in Hyogo. He studied design at Kyoto Seika University and Fine Art at Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Holland. He currently lives and works in Tokyo. His major solo exhibitions include “Flower Bed District” (WISH-LESS gallery, Tokyo, 2015), “Between the Real and Surrealism” (CABANE de ZUCCa Daikanyama & Minamiaoyama, Tokyo, 2015), and “Full Bloom – Distant Thunder” (0fr., Paris, 2017). This year Anotani had solo exhibitions at BOOKMARC produced by Mark Jacobs in Tokyo, and at Gallery TRAX in Yamanashi.

WORKS

  • Untitled, 2013

  • Untitled, 2013

  • Untitled, 2013

  • Untitled, 2013

  • Untitled, 2013

  • Portraits / Man on a Drive, 2014

  • A Man in Front of the Building, 2014

  • The Lost Body, 2017

  • The Spirit Fire, 2017

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