Event
NEW INCUBATION 7 “Parallel World or: How I Learned to Love the World”
Sep 9, 2015 (wed) – Oct 18, 2015(sun)
Admission: free
http://www.kac.or.jp/eng/events/16727/
Artists: Eugene Kangawa ・ Pierre Jean Giloux
Venue
KYOTO ART CENTER
http://www.kac.or.jp/
Access: 546-2 Yamafushiyama-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto 604-8156, Japan
Tel: 075-213-1000
Hours: 10:00 ~ 20:00
Closed: August 14 (fri)-August 16 (sun)
Description
EUGENE KANGAWA × PIERRE JEAN GILOUX
NEW INCUBATION is a series of exhibitions which provide opportunity that veteran and young artists meet and stimulate each other. This exhibition project is organized with the aim to grasp contemporary art from new perspectives through the dynamics which spring from such combinations, which also creates a challenging place for both artists and viewers. In the 7th NEW INCUBATION, the two video artists working on a wide range of activities, EUGENE KANGAWA and PIERRE JEAN GILOUX exhibit their video works which represent contemporary landscape from each point of view.
Their starting point of creation is concerned with outward things or material objects rather than internal expression. EUGENE and PIERRE JEAN are willing to transcend boundaries between different fields of arts, and furthermore, art and society. However, their works make a stark contrast in terms of a distance toward a motif, the way of commitment, the method to develop a motif into a final piece of art, and the subjectivity as artist. KANGAWA looks at the world coolly and objectively, and he gains the degree of perfection of his work by “minimal intervention” such as making a mere scenario or setting. On the other hand, PIERRE JEAN recreates the real world by “maximal intervention”; computer graphics or digital processing. His imagination, humour, and fascination deconstruct the reality and give way to a fictional reconstruction. In this exhibition, these two artists show their works which alternate the world based on the research of the memory of a community.
Their ways to see, understand, and reconstruct the world are contrastive, however, they have peculiar relationship in terms of the real and the fictional, namely “the inverse affinity”. EUGENE’s work depicts and elaborates natural scenery with even more intense reality than the actual world, which, in conclusion, comes to approximate rather fictional scenery. PIERRE JEAN creates a fictional city with CG techniques, which seems to illustrate the mysterious image of a real city organically transfiguring like a creature. Both of their works show spectacles arousing imaginations of viewers, which function as omens and counter images against this contemporary world.
