Shunsuke Kano
An up-and-coming artist based in Kyoto, Japan, Shunsuke Kano often creates his works by using photos that capture familiar scenes around him and then integrating the photos into various images and dimensional objects. Kano presents artwork that stimulates the optical senses of the viewer by incorporating "tricks" into surface layers of physical matter. In his representative work series, for example, there is a cube wrapped around with colorful plastic bands. But with closer inspection, viewers will see photos on that surface. The artist wraps plastic bands around the surface, captures the image with a camera, pastes the photo onto the surface, takes another photo, and then repeats the process. His delivery of mixing marble, plywood, and building material with the images of masking tape, clay, stickers, and ink doodles allows viewers to interpret the link between the support medium and the images as well as to read the artist's whimsical humor. This approach artfully chips away at past frameworks of photographic expression and offers the possibility of a fresh approach to how we interpret photographs and images.
Kano’s solo shows include Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Gallery PARC, Kyoto and gallery Den, Osaka. Significant group shows include NADiff …
An up-and-coming artist based in Kyoto, Japan, Shunsuke Kano often creates his works by using photos that capture familiar scenes around him and then integrating the photos into various images and dimensional objects. Kano presents artwork that stimulates the optical senses of the viewer by incorporating "tricks" into surface layers of physical matter. In his representative work series, for example, there is a cube wrapped around with colorful plastic bands. But with closer inspection, viewers will see photos on that surface. The artist wraps plastic bands around the surface, captures the image with a camera, pastes the photo onto the surface, takes another photo, and then repeats the process. His delivery of mixing marble, plywood, and building material with the images of masking tape, clay, stickers, and ink doodles allows viewers to interpret the link between the support medium and the images as well as to read the artist's whimsical humor. This approach artfully chips away at past frameworks of photographic expression and offers the possibility of a fresh approach to how we interpret photographs and images.
Kano’s solo shows include Maki Fine Arts, Tokyo, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Gallery PARC, Kyoto and gallery Den, Osaka. Significant group shows include NADiff window gallery, Tokyo, Kyoto City University of Art, Art Gallery, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and the "The 15th Exhibition of the Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art" at the Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum.
Courtesy of Maki Fine Arts
