This exhibition, his first solo show in Kiyosumi Shirakawa in three years, will be an ambitious site-specific installation utilizing the gallery space to present his CT series of penetrating photographs that cancel out the layers of architectural space. Visitors to the exhibition, which opens on September 3, 2023, are invited to experience a view through the gallery walls to see what it was like outside the gallery one year earlier on September 3, 2022. While Gordon Matta-Clark, an artist active in New York in the 1970s, updated the landscape by drilling directly into the real space of buildings, Komatsu, who uses photographic techniques, treats the walls of active buildings that are used in daily life and evokes the scenery beyond them.
In the CT (Painting) series, which will be exhibited simultaneously, Komatsu will show the other side of paintings, developing an expression that crosses the boundary between two-dimensional and three-dimensional space. The works, which can be called both paintings and photographs, contain a sculptural concept and may be said to be a 21st-century inheritance of the “Spatialism” advocated by Lucio Fontana and others in the late 1940s and 1950s.
Komatsu will also consider the years 2022 and 2023, one year before and after the new coronavirus swept the world, in this site-specific exhibition utilizing the Kiyosumi-Shirakawa gallery space. We cordially invite all to this ambitious exhibition that will lead viewers to a new perceiving experience.
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Talk Event
Date: September 3, 2023 (Sun) 17:00-18:00
Speakers: Toshihiro Komatsu (Artist) x Kichitaro Inami (Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo) *TBC
Fee: Free / No reservation required
*Please check the official website for event details.
