TARO NASU proposes the group exhibition Sound and Vision which features the artists who apply sound as important element to their concept.
Mika Tajima's Negative Entropy is a series of abstract woven paintings. These works are simultaneously images and material records of the sound of their own production. The subjects are aging factories using industrial textile Jacquard looms and server colocation centres that comprise today's cloud computing infrastructure.These are the images of our embodied activities mediated through the processed material translations.This connection further demonstrates the intertwining of the histories of textile and digital production.
'Art d'Ameublement' series are consisted of spray enamelled transparent ambient paintings each subtitled by a geographic location, such as Osaka, Medellín, etc., drawing on the specific psycho geographic associations that are produced by affective names of colours and paints. 'Art d'Ameublement' also refers to Erik Satie's Furniture Music (Musique d'ameublement)—a series of infinitely repetitive compositions meant to be background music for different occasions.
Koichi Enomoto prefers to apply Japanese cartoon representations and historical motifs from art history for example Goya and Dali, mixing science fiction. He composes the existing fictions in his paintings as the translation of philosophical inquiry in our time. In his painting, he blurs the boundary between the present and past, the life and death, the human and non-human, such intermediate zone is expanding day by day in our surroundings. Through such an approach, he is trying to capture what the image can convey as the translation of our actuality in the issue of identity lost and the globalisation.
Ryan Gander is the one of the most active new generation conceptual artists. In his work, He transforms everyday materials into the universal phenomenon. His 'On slow obliteration, or difficult and hard truths' is a machine representing an abstract movement. Gander was inspired by an idea of the slow-motion in the films and videos and translated it into the abstract representation of time. An animated gold flip-dot sign loaded with an algorithm that continuously generates randomly forming drips across its surface.
Jonathan Monk has developed his unique style of creation Incorporating the method of appropriation, under his consistent policy that no one can make anything which can be called perfectly 'original'. Dealing with the various layers of the meaning, and also with the generating process of art where the appropriation of an art produces another work of art, his work gives the illusion that it is addressed to the viewer personally. Monk's works are, so to speak, historical art quotation, questioning 'how art can be art'.