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ARTWORKS
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 an accumulation of light covering its entire expanse.
PROFILE
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: Hudson River Museum “Unity on the Hudson”; KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre “Lines: Kengo Kito Exhibition”; Kyoto Ceramic Art Museum “Full Lightness”; Hara Museum ARC “Multiple Star I, II, III” exhibition. Group exhibitions include: Grand Front Osaka “Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival”; Arts Maebashi “Traces of Life,” The National Art Center, Tokyo “DOMANI: The Next 100 Years 2021,” Gunma Museum of Modern Art “Views of Painting,” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art “Aichi Art Chronicle,” Takamatsu City Museum of Art “Takamatsu City Museum of Art Collection + The Secret of Gihou,” The National Art Center, Tokyo “Roppongi Art Night 2018,” Mori Art Museum “Roppongi Crossing 2007: Pulse of the Future,” The National Art Center, Tokyo “Artist File,” and The Hermitage Museum “Mono NoAware.” In 2008, she received the Goto Memorial Prize for Culture and spent a year in New York, followed by a period of artistic activity in Berlin, Germany. Her works, which fuse the modern, colorful aesthetic of industrial products like hula hoops and parasols with expansive qualities evoking living organisms and the cosmos, have garnered high acclaim both domestically and internationally.