Teppei Kaneuji
20 Mar - 26 Apr 2014
TEPPEI KANEUJI
Deep Fried Ghost / Hard Boiled Daydream
20 March - 26 April 2014
I feel there is a need to renew the lines between fiction and nonfiction, normal and abnormal. Or recognize their meaninglessness. As always, my interest lies in incomprehensibility, vagueness – and my work and creating are attempts to capture those things. The new spaces that result from that work are where we can start that process of renewal. I don’t want to hide them or shift them.
Teppei KANEUJI
ShugoArts is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Teppei KANEUJI, “DEEP FRIED GHOST / HARD BOILED DAYDREAM”.
The exhibition title has its origins in the “deep-fried ghost” of the manga GeGeGe no Kitaro – the idea of trying to capture something immaterial in a form of cooking – and also in the “hard-boiled” genre of novel.
During residencies at Beijing and Singapore last year and the year before, KANEUJI reports having thought about the connections between the overarching process by which urban environments are formed and the daily events that take place within them, between the circumstances giving birth to a new movement in art and the individual artist’s creative activities. He also says that by devoting himself to the study of print techniques at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, he became more conscious of the connection between image and matter, and also renewed his thoughts on collage, in particular.
Focusing primarily on the “Gray Puddle” series of two-dimensional works he has been producing since last year, this exhibition includes paintings and sculptures that utilize the motifs of personally held or shared fantasies, or immaterial phenomena (for example, the “blood” seen in yakuza movies, images of objects cut from manga, screen-tones used in manga to convey atmosphere, light, shade, sound or speed), but that also have a sense of space – shape or weight or rawness.
In September this year, KANEUJI will hold a solo show at STPI in Singapore featuring more than 80 works he made during his residence there last year.
Born 1978 in Kyoto. In 2003 completed a graduate degree in sculpture at Kyoto City University of the Arts. Major solo exhibitions include “Towering Something” at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and K11, Shanghai (2013-14); “Ghost in the City Lights” at Eslite Gallery, Beijing (2011); “POST-NOTHING” at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2011); “Recent Works Post Something” at ShugoArts, Tokyo (2010); “Melting City / Empty Forest” at Yokohama Museum of Art (2009); and, “Metamorphosis: Objects Today Vol. 6′′ at Gallery αM, Tokyo (2009). Major group exhibitions include: “Roppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt” at Mori Art Museum (2013); “Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art Since the 1970s” at Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul (2013); “Sculpture by Other Means” at One and J Gallery, Seoul (2012); Singapore Biennale at National Museum of Singapore, Singapore (2011); “Ways of Worldmaking” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011); “Akatsuka Fujio Manga University Exhibition” at Kyoto International Manga Museum (2011); “Platform 2009 Project by Invited Curators” at KIMUSA, etc., Seoul (2009); “Beautiful New World: Current Japanese Visual Culture” at Beijing and Guangdong (2007).
Deep Fried Ghost / Hard Boiled Daydream
20 March - 26 April 2014
I feel there is a need to renew the lines between fiction and nonfiction, normal and abnormal. Or recognize their meaninglessness. As always, my interest lies in incomprehensibility, vagueness – and my work and creating are attempts to capture those things. The new spaces that result from that work are where we can start that process of renewal. I don’t want to hide them or shift them.
Teppei KANEUJI
ShugoArts is pleased to present a new solo exhibition by Teppei KANEUJI, “DEEP FRIED GHOST / HARD BOILED DAYDREAM”.
The exhibition title has its origins in the “deep-fried ghost” of the manga GeGeGe no Kitaro – the idea of trying to capture something immaterial in a form of cooking – and also in the “hard-boiled” genre of novel.
During residencies at Beijing and Singapore last year and the year before, KANEUJI reports having thought about the connections between the overarching process by which urban environments are formed and the daily events that take place within them, between the circumstances giving birth to a new movement in art and the individual artist’s creative activities. He also says that by devoting himself to the study of print techniques at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, he became more conscious of the connection between image and matter, and also renewed his thoughts on collage, in particular.
Focusing primarily on the “Gray Puddle” series of two-dimensional works he has been producing since last year, this exhibition includes paintings and sculptures that utilize the motifs of personally held or shared fantasies, or immaterial phenomena (for example, the “blood” seen in yakuza movies, images of objects cut from manga, screen-tones used in manga to convey atmosphere, light, shade, sound or speed), but that also have a sense of space – shape or weight or rawness.
In September this year, KANEUJI will hold a solo show at STPI in Singapore featuring more than 80 works he made during his residence there last year.
Born 1978 in Kyoto. In 2003 completed a graduate degree in sculpture at Kyoto City University of the Arts. Major solo exhibitions include “Towering Something” at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and K11, Shanghai (2013-14); “Ghost in the City Lights” at Eslite Gallery, Beijing (2011); “POST-NOTHING” at Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney (2011); “Recent Works Post Something” at ShugoArts, Tokyo (2010); “Melting City / Empty Forest” at Yokohama Museum of Art (2009); and, “Metamorphosis: Objects Today Vol. 6′′ at Gallery αM, Tokyo (2009). Major group exhibitions include: “Roppongi Crossing 2013: Out of Doubt” at Mori Art Museum (2013); “Re: Quest―Japanese Contemporary Art Since the 1970s” at Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul (2013); “Sculpture by Other Means” at One and J Gallery, Seoul (2012); Singapore Biennale at National Museum of Singapore, Singapore (2011); “Ways of Worldmaking” at The National Museum of Art, Osaka (2011); “Akatsuka Fujio Manga University Exhibition” at Kyoto International Manga Museum (2011); “Platform 2009 Project by Invited Curators” at KIMUSA, etc., Seoul (2009); “Beautiful New World: Current Japanese Visual Culture” at Beijing and Guangdong (2007).