Kazuyo Kinoshita “Another Existence”

Gallery Yamaki Fine Art

Image: Kazuyo Kinoshita "77-V" (1977)

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With photography and painting as her primary modes of expression, Kazuyo Kinoshita (1939-1994) left a striking impression on postwar Japanese art. Kinoshita’s background of creation can be traced to a wide range of movements during the first two decades after World World 2, such as Gutai, Mono-ha, High Red Center and Neo-Dada in the Kansai area. She also worked with artist group “i” in Kobe around her first solo exhibition.
From 1973 to 1980, Kinoshita applied a sort of electric reproduction technology called “Xerography” (blueprint) to her works and requestioned the existence of human’s consciousness through her creations. In order to accomplish these works, the artist took pictures of papery objects which had been drawn, folded or warped, and then depicted flat images of the same line or circle with the image in the objects on the photographs. The unique dual structure, the superposition of two-dimensional image and three-dimensional image, of digital and analogue, creates the visual /cognitive divergence between the certainty and uncertainty of “existence”. The divergence triggers the people who “see” to ponder the question of “What is existence” and the behavior of “seeing”. The question toward “seeing” in the works of Kinoshita can also be considered as a verification of the way “I” take part in the world.
This exhibition introduces an artist who had been striving to elevate some part of herself to open “consciousness” and the “eye”. She had kept trying to eliminate the barrier between subject and object, and integrate existence with the behavior of observing it. Perhaps we could acquire an exciting experience of vibrating the cognition and sensibility through observing Kinoshita’s firm volition.