北京藝門畫廊
名和晃平 ( Kohei Nawa )（1975年出生於日本大阪），PixCell (棱鏡) ，個展
2008年9月7日 - 2008年10月31日
日本藝術家名和晃平中國首次個展的開幕式將於2008年9月7日下午2點至6點舉行。敬請光臨！
北京藝門畫廊很高興為名和晃平舉辦他在中國的首次個展。
PixCell (棱鏡)是名和晃平還在延續中的一個作品系列。這次，藝術家在展廳空間內搭建了一個特製的5米 x 5米的白色空間來展示這個系列中的新作。名和晃平在這個展覽中會巧妙地利用觀眾對三維/二維空間及三維/二維物體的種种先入之見。
觀眾踏入這個空間，會發現這裡各個表面都泛著古怪的散射，地板、墻壁、天花板、燈光借助周圍環境中統一的白色，被平面化到了近乎二維。五隻壓克力PixCell棱鏡裏裝有一隻雞的標本、一個Dysan牌吸塵器、“超級馬利奧”裏的各種卡通形象、一隻實物大小的玩具豹子、一棵仙人掌樹。這些棱鏡雕塑每個都是不一樣的，以不同的角度懸挂在這個白色空間裏。封閉在精心建構的壓克力盒子裏的棱鏡是由多重的棱鏡層構成的，這些棱鏡層將光的方向切分為兩路，使得其內的每件物品看起來都像被切割為多層，很像是一個全息圖景。這種視覺錯覺和形態上的扭曲永久地漂浮在一個虛擬的三維空間裏。
傳統上，二維作品都是懸挂在三維的空間裏的。而這裡，藝術家將這個程式逆轉了過來，他讓觀眾凝神觀看一個平面的世界--雖然這個世界裏也有盛放在收集盒裏、懸挂于扁平空間內的各種立體物件。
名和晃平在他的素描、絲網印刷、裝置和繪畫作品中使用了各式各樣的日常材料來質疑傳統意義上雕塑中有關視覺與時間的種種邊界。名和正在進行著他對雕塑的本質及其無限多的可能性的研究，而他的藝術作品都是這項研究的副産品。作為一個藝術家，名和的強項在於他能夠通過改變我們在觀看藝術品時的感知方式和挑戰我們的預期，來發明一種新的雕塑語言。
名和晃平在日本京都生活和工作。他是京都城市大學藝術雕塑係博士學位的獲得者，也曾在倫敦皇家藝術學院研習過雕塑。他的作品目前正在東京都現代美術館（Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo）參加名為“平行的世界”（“Parallel Worlds”）的群展。前不久，名和在西班牙巴塞羅那的米羅基金會美術館舉辦了他在歐洲美術館的第二次個展。
這次展覽的布展工作是與SAKO建築設計工社(SAKO Architects)合作完成的，在此特別感謝迫慶一郎(Keiichiro SAKO)先生及青山周平(Shuhei AOYAMA)先生。
開館時間:每天早上10點至下午6點 (週一週二參觀須預約)
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藝術家 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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