Art world is waking up from summer sleep and we are happy to jump into hectic Berlin Art Week with our participation in POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair, which will open its doors on September 14 parallel to numerous events all around the city. We are bringing the latest works of four of represented artists realized in the media of painting, digital art and threads sculptures.
Haruki Ogawa combines canvases made of different media (hemp, linen, cotton), applying shadowing effects and depicting (by oil, acrylic, alkyd) dynamic elements that transfix the multiple planes. Thus the artist weaves a figure that can't be read through linear, diachronic structure. His image doesn't offer you one entrance. The painting is a knot-like organization which can be perceived only in the mode of synchronicity, while enveloping the totality of the visual semiotic organism and coming simultaneously from different directions to its ungraspable, "empty" centre.
Ryo Kikuchi shows the latest works from his "Void" series that present vaguely visible landscapes or objects, which, while asking for closer observation, vanish in the rows of dots when actually viewed more closely, totally dismantling the possibility of a "proper distance" and breaking the constraining frame of the image. There is no place of comfort from which to take in this shape: it is either too close to you or too far, fluctuating between reappearing and vanishing; between the concept and the mechanical repetition of the similar dots.
Ryo Kikuchi, Void#24, acrylic on panel, 90x90x4cm, 2017
Macoto Murayama presents his new Botanical Diagram dedicated to the Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian, one of the species in the Moth Orchid genius. The flower is characterized by it's unworldly structure and is used now during the traditional ceremonies in Japan, while getting vast attention among horticulturists all around the world. Murayama outdid himself with the analysis of the structure of the plant presenting the centers of the masses, color segmentation of the core, environmental and 3D modeling data, not to mention overall indications of the parts names and sizes as well as graceful mesh. Macoto Murayama, Phalaenopsis Sogo Yukidian - front view - b, digital c-print, 100x100cm, 2017 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.
