Kaz Oshiro
dal 15/9/2011 al 18/11/2011
Segnalato da
15/9/2011
Kaz Oshiro
Villa du Parc Centre d'Art Contemporain, Annemasse
Zeuxis pop. The artist meticulously crafts trompe l'oeil replicas of common objects that are in fact three-dimensional paintings made using canvas, stretchers, bondo and acrylic paint. With their fanatical attention to detail and focus on everyday life they challenge the conventions of representation. The exhibition is a part of 'Resonance' - la Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon.
Kaz Oshiro meticulously crafts trompe l’oeil replicas of common objects that are in fact three-dimensional paintings made using canvas, stretchers, bondo and acrylic paint. Music amplifiers, dormroom fridges, double-stack washer/dryers and scuffed credenzas form the humble subjects of his
oeuvre.
As hybrids, they blur the boundary between painting and sculpture. With their fanatical attention
to detail and focus on everyday life they challenge the conventions of representation and ask us to look
closer and distrust what we see and take for granted around us all day long. As appropriations in an age
saturated with appropriations, they effortlessly reference pop art, minimalism, conceptual and finish
fetish art – without being dominated by them.
Oshiro says that he «hopes to create Post-Pop Art
(painting) that juxtaposes Pop and Minimalism with the flavor of Neo-Geo, appropriation, and
Photorealism ,and present them as a still life of my generation.» But the objects are well more than art
about art. Punk-rock stickers and other sub-culture paraphernalia reveal the Japanese born Oshiro to
be an astute reader of American culture both high and low.
This exhibition is a part of «Résonance» - la Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon. www.biennaledelyon.com/biennale/resonance/
From September to December 2011, more than 90 art centres, private galleries, cultural institutions and artist collectives will team up with the Biennale de Lyon. Every other year since 2003, Résonance has proposed an wide-reaching art trail – an event within the event that gives the widest possible public access, across Greater Lyon and the Rhône-Alpes region, to over 125 attractions – dance, performance, theatre, photography, video, installations, design, music, literature, and more.
Image: 0’00’’, 2006, Acrylic airbrush on paper – 15 3/4 x 19 3/4 in., Unique
Collection Flingue, Paris
Courtesy Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris
Opening 16 september h 6,30 p.m.
Villa du Parc
Centre d'Art Contemporain
12 rue de Genève _ 74100 Annemasse
open thuesday to saturday 2-6,30 p.m. or by appointment
free entrance