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POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair
Cousteau Tazuke, Taisuke Mohri, Kanata Goto, Macoto Murayama
2016.09.15 (THU) - 18 (SUN)
Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, Berlin
Taisuke Mohri, Ranunculus, glass/pencil on paper, 49.2x49.2x5cm, 2016

Frantic Gallery returns to Berlin to join Art Week in the city and POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair with 4 of our artists. We will use this busy time and launch our Autumn art fair season with the presentation of the latest drawing by Taisuke Mohri from his "Mirror" series and the recent diagrams by Macoto Murayama after his solo show in D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum/Dundee University in Scotland. Cousteau Tazuke will be showing his 3 dimensional paintings with acrylic surface and we will finally present to our friends in Germany the threads works by our new artist Kanata Goto. 

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Cousteau Tazuke's unconventional painting technique reveals intense (colorful and in the same time tactile) imaginary. Tazuke carves into clear acrylic panels, pours acid-colored paint in the resulting cavities and then exhibits these works backwards, thus subverting the opposition of the front and the rear -- the positive and negative -- of the picture and transcending the borderline between the process of carving and the work of drawing, the art of sculpture and that of painting.
Image: Cousteau Tazuke, The work with acrylic resin surface 2014.03.27, acrylic resin, acrylic paint, alkyd paint, 91x91cm, 2014
 
Taisuke Mohri presents “The Mirror 2”, the pencil drawing in which two contradictory mechanisms work in the same time: the image operates as an open window in the same time presenting the structure of mirrors that close it. Hyperrealism of this artist goes beyond the mimetic techniques and push the viewer onto the image as a power capable of not simply creating a parallel reality, but eliminating the point of view or the presence of the onlooker itself. In the same time, mirror that creates the repetition functions as window and the points of view of the depicted girl and the onlooker that are not supposed to meet overlap. Due to this paradox of elimination and multiplication the reality slips into the image and the image penetrates the reality. 
Image: Taisuke Mohri, The Mirror 2, pencil on paper, drawing: 91.2x73cm, frame: 95.3x77.1cm, 2016
Macoto Murayama creates computer generated botanical drawings, bringing an ancient tradition of flower illustration into the digital age. Pre-modern visuality meets here with cutting-edge technology; natural forms intertwine with scientific sharpness and descriptive precision. 
Image: Macoto Murayama, Trifolium repens L.-top view-No.00 and 10, digital c-print, 100x100cm each, 2016, Ed.8
The tribal vibe in works of Kanata Goto in a paradoxical but no less harmonic way meets with futuristic imaginary. Geometry and architectonics intertwine here with aggressive colors and tactile feeling. Neither installation nor sculptures, his works overcome genre and style restrictions and bring in contemporary art “totem and taboo” dimension of desire, while triggering unconscious work of “worship”. Connecting prehistoric past with sci-fi type of future Goto throws together the epochs as if playing with deep and unrecognized desires on one hand and law and order on another.
Image: Kanata Goto, Night 8, iron, nylon threads, 120x48.5x19.5cm, 2016, Ed.3
Taisuke Mohri, Untitled, glass, pencil on paper, 48.6x48.6x5cm, 2016
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