gallery1, 2(7th floor)
Benjamin Edwards "Democracity"
Benjamin Edwards works and lives in Washington D.C. This will be his first show in Japan.
What Benjamin Edwards illustrates is an imaginary portraiture of a city that consists of fictitious architecture that makes full use of todayfs digital technology. Vast amount of architectural samples, minutely designed by computer graphics, are stocked and projected in 3D one by one and they appear on the tableau evolving into an expansive virtual city. The production process may seem like metamorphosis, floods of information and intangible order surrounding us changing one after the other into streets, signs and buildings to construct a whole new city.
According to the artist, "[Democracity] was the name of a popular exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair showing what a future American city might look like. " Many titles of his artworks come from this Worldfs Fair in NY and quotes from the architect Le Corbusier.
©Benjamin Edwards
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TKG Contemporary(6th floor)
Nana Funo, Yutaka Watanabe
Nana Funo paints in restrained colors the sensitive motifs that are unique to young girls. Her repertoire includes images such as hooked needle crochet lace patterns, or a pattern of plants on an embroidery frame like round surface painted with dyestuff, gesso and acrylic paint layered to create a distinctive matiere.
Yutaka Watanabe paints a landscape in strange composition that mixed the interior and exterior of a house. In his series called the garkh that implies the retreat, plants and furniture are mixed and are bent in squares, repeatedly having silent dialogue in front of a backdrop like house or inside the house.The combination of this coloration and motif reminds one of the Futurist paintings.
Both artists are having their first solo shows at Tomio Koyama Gallery.
L to R : © Nana Funo, © Yutaka Watanabe
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