Kazuna Taguchi
11 Apr - 23 May 2009
KAZUNA TAGUCHI
"It is as it is"
Apr. 11, Sat., 2009– May. 23, Sat., 2009
Closed on Mon., Sun. and holidays
The subject itself doesn’t exist, but its parts certainly do. Or perhaps the fact that those parts have been transferred through my hand to the canvas means that no matter how accurately I have portrayed them, they will end up being different from the originals. If so, you’d be correct in saying that the parts don’t exist either. It’s also not easy to photograph paintings accurately, and the same goes for the prints. I believe that the very meaning of "existence" is made to change through these various processes. I’m always thinking that by going through them I am trying to reach some kind of meaning. By complicating the work process I create a multilayered fiction, but by doing so I might be leading the viewer to a single interpretation. It's like I'm leading them, saying, “Come over here...”
Kazuna Taguchi
Kazuna Taguchi starts her work by assembling images of parts of faces from the numerous media that surround us in our daily lives. She then combines them in a photographic montage, paints a picture from the montage on canvas, takes a photograph of the painting and then makes prints of the photograph. The person, or people, depicted are thus processed through montage, painting and then photograph, and at each stage their existence is made to change. The final photographs contain elements of our own everyday lives, and yet we have no experience of them. We commend to you the first solo show for Kazuna Taguchi at ShugoArts
Born in 1979 in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a Ph.D. in painting. Currently resides and works in Tokyo. Past exhibitions: "Trace Elements" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2008) and The Performance Space, Sydney (2009); VOCA exhibition, The Ueno Royal Museum (2007); "Portrait Session" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2007); "The Photograph: What You See & What You Don't" Chinretsukan Gallery of the University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts (2007); “A Photograph Within” TARO NASU GALLERY (2006); Taipei Biennial: "Dirty Yoga" Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2006); “my cup of tea - Private Luxury” TARO NASU GALLERY (2006); "Absent Portrait" the Museum Studio of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2006); "Rapt! 20 contemporary artists from Japan" CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and other venues in Australia (2006); and “Stars” Gallery KAKU (2005)
"It is as it is"
Apr. 11, Sat., 2009– May. 23, Sat., 2009
Closed on Mon., Sun. and holidays
The subject itself doesn’t exist, but its parts certainly do. Or perhaps the fact that those parts have been transferred through my hand to the canvas means that no matter how accurately I have portrayed them, they will end up being different from the originals. If so, you’d be correct in saying that the parts don’t exist either. It’s also not easy to photograph paintings accurately, and the same goes for the prints. I believe that the very meaning of "existence" is made to change through these various processes. I’m always thinking that by going through them I am trying to reach some kind of meaning. By complicating the work process I create a multilayered fiction, but by doing so I might be leading the viewer to a single interpretation. It's like I'm leading them, saying, “Come over here...”
Kazuna Taguchi
Kazuna Taguchi starts her work by assembling images of parts of faces from the numerous media that surround us in our daily lives. She then combines them in a photographic montage, paints a picture from the montage on canvas, takes a photograph of the painting and then makes prints of the photograph. The person, or people, depicted are thus processed through montage, painting and then photograph, and at each stage their existence is made to change. The final photographs contain elements of our own everyday lives, and yet we have no experience of them. We commend to you the first solo show for Kazuna Taguchi at ShugoArts
Born in 1979 in Tokyo. Graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts with a Ph.D. in painting. Currently resides and works in Tokyo. Past exhibitions: "Trace Elements" Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (2008) and The Performance Space, Sydney (2009); VOCA exhibition, The Ueno Royal Museum (2007); "Portrait Session" Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2007); "The Photograph: What You See & What You Don't" Chinretsukan Gallery of the University Art Museum - Tokyo University of the Arts (2007); “A Photograph Within” TARO NASU GALLERY (2006); Taipei Biennial: "Dirty Yoga" Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2006); “my cup of tea - Private Luxury” TARO NASU GALLERY (2006); "Absent Portrait" the Museum Studio of Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art (2006); "Rapt! 20 contemporary artists from Japan" CCP Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, and other venues in Australia (2006); and “Stars” Gallery KAKU (2005)