北京艺门画廊
名和晃平 ( Kohei Nawa )（1975年出生于日本大阪），PixCell (棱镜) ，个展
2008年9月7日 - 2008年10月31日
日本艺术家名和晃平中国首次个展的开幕式将于2008年9月7日下午2点至6点举行。敬请光临！
北京艺门画廊很高兴为名和晃平举办他在中国的首次个展。
PixCell (棱镜)是名和晃平还在延续中的一个作品系列。这次，艺术家在展厅空间内搭建了一个特制的5米 x 5米的白色空间来展示这个系列中的新作。名和晃平在这个展览中会巧妙地利用观众对三维/二维空间及三维/二维物体的种种先入之见。
观众踏入这个空间，会发现这里各个表面都泛着古怪的散射，地板、墙壁、天花板、灯光借助周围环境中统一的白色，被平面化到了近乎二维。五只压克力PixCell棱镜里装有一只鸡的标本、一个Dysan牌吸尘器、“超级马里奥”里的各种卡通形象、一只实物大小的玩具豹子、一棵仙人掌树。这些棱镜雕塑每个都是不一样的，以不同的角度悬挂在这个白色空间里。封闭在精心建构的压克力盒子里的棱镜是由多重的棱镜层构成的，这些棱镜层将光的方向切分为两路，使得其内的每件物品看起来都像被切割为多层，很像是一个全息图景。这种视觉错觉和形态上的扭曲永久地漂浮在一个虚拟的三维空间里。
传统上，二维作品都是悬挂在三维的空间里的。而这里，艺术家将这个程序逆转了过来，他让观众凝神观看一个平面的世界--虽然这个世界里也有盛放在收集盒里、悬挂于扁平空间内的各种立体物件。
名和晃平在他的素描、丝网印刷、装置和绘画作品中使用了各式各样的日常材料来质疑传统意义上雕塑中有关视觉与时间的种种边界。名和正在进行着他对雕塑的本质及其无限多的可能性的研究，而他的艺术作品都是这项研究的副产品。作为一个艺术家，名和的强项在于他能够通过改变我们在观看艺术品时的感知方式和挑战我们的预期，来发明一种新的雕塑语言。
名和晃平在日本京都生活和工作。他是京都城市大学艺术雕塑系博士学位的获得者，也曾在伦敦皇家艺术学院研习过雕塑。他的作品目前正在东京都现代美术馆（Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo）参加名为“平行的世界”（“Parallel Worlds”）的群展。前不久，名和在西班牙巴塞罗那的米罗基金会美术馆举办了他在欧洲美术馆的第二次个展。
这次展览的布展工作是与SAKO建筑设计工社(SAKO Architects)合作完成的，在此特别感谢迫庆一郎(Keiichiro SAKO)先生及青山周平(Shuhei AOYAMA)先生。
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艺术家 kohei nawa
Pékin Fine Arts:
Kohei Nawa (b. 1975 Osaka), PixCell (PRISM), Solo Exhibition
September 7 – October 31, 2008
Opening Reception for Japanese artist Kohei Nawa’s first solo exhibition in China: September 7, 2008, from 2 to 6 pm. ALL WELCOME!
Pekin Fine Arts is pleased to present Kohei Nawa’s first solo exhibition in China.
In his latest works from his on-going PixCell (PRISM) series, Kohei Nawa shows his works in a specially constructed 5 x 5 meter white space-within-the-gallery-space. Kohei Nawa manipulates the viewers’ preconceptions of three-dimensional vs. two-dimensional space and objects.
The viewer enters and stands in a space of oddly diffused white surfaces, where floor, walls, ceiling and lights are flattened to near two-dimensionality by virtue of the uniformly white environment. The five acrylic PixCell PRISM boxes house a taxidermy chicken, a Dysan vacuum cleaner, Super Mario cartoon characters, a life size toy leopard, and a cactus tree. Each sculpture-prism is unique and hung at differing angles within the white space. Permanently encased in finely constructed acrylic boxes, each sculpture-prism is comprised of layers of prism sheets cutting the direction of light in two, causing the object inside to appear to divide into multiples, much like a hologram. The result is a visually disturbing, sculptural distortion, permanently “floating” in a virtual world of three-dimensionality.
Traditionally, two-dimensional works hang on walls of a three dimensional space. Here, the artist reverses the process, causing viewers to contemplate a world that is flat, save for bits of three-dimensionality contained in collector boxes and suspended within a flat space.
Kohei Nawa uses a wide range of every-day materials in his drawing, silk-screen, video, installation, and painting works to question the traditional visual and temporal boundaries of sculpture. His artworks are the by-products of his on-going research into the nature of sculpture and its infinite facets and possibilities. Kohei’s strength as an artist lies in his ability to invent new sculptural language by changing our perceptions and challenging our expectations when viewing art objects.
Kohei Nawa lives and works in Kyoto, Japan. He has a Phd in Fine Art Sculpture from Kyoto City University and also studied sculpture at London’s Royal College of Art. His works are currently on exhibit in the group exhibit “Parallel Worlds” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo（Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo）, and were recently exhibited at the Joan Miro Foundation in Barcelona, Spain, in Kohei’s second solo museum exhibition in Europe.
This exhibition installation is realized with the cooperation of SAKO Architects, with special thanks to Keiichiro SAKO and Shuhei AOYAMA.
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