Artist
Artist
KANEUJI Teppei
Japan
Hard Boiled Daydream (Sculpture/Spook/Osaka)
[Study: Osaka Kansai International Arts Festival / EXPO PUBLIC ART]
I have been creating artworks by liberating everyday objects from their conventional scale, value, meaning, and function, then connecting them in new ways. Small, fictional images—such as those found in manga and illustrations—are enlarged and fused with physical materials, generating entirely new impressions. By weaving these elements together into a single piece, a new narrative emerges, creating a space that fluidly moves between two-dimensional and three-dimensional realms, fiction and reality, the personal and the public, as well as the past, present, and future.
Credits
Production: ArtTank Ltd. , Nakamoto Iron Works Inc., Nakagawa Chemical Inc., KIMURA FOUNDRY CO.,LTD.
[Study: Osaka Kansai International Art Festival / EXPO PUBLIC ART]
Partner City
Matsubara City
Sponsorship
Profile
Born in 1978. Artist and sculptor. Associate professor of sculpture at Kyoto City University of Arts.
He creates works using a collage-like technique that rereads existing contexts by cutting out parts of everyday objects and joining them together. He has had solo exhibitions at Yokohama Museum of Art (2009), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing (2013), Marugame Genichiro Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art (2016), and others, and has exhibited his works in international and domestic exhibitions.
Since 2011, he has also created several stage art works. He received the Kyoto City Art Newcomer Award in 2012, the Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award Encouragement Prize in 2015, and the 29th Takashimaya Cultural Fund in 2008.
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