photo: KIOKU Keizo
Setting the Butterfly Free
| Artist | KOGANEZAWA Takehito |
|---|---|
| Year | 2015 |
| Material/ Technique | HD video, ink on paper |
| Size/ Duration | dimensions variable |
| Copyright Notice | © KOGANEZAWA Takehito |
| Year of acquisition/ donation | 2016（作品購入年月日：2016/03/31） |
| Description | Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1974. Lives and works in Hiroshima. Koganezawa Takehito participated in the activities of Studio Shokudo while studying imaging arts and sciences at Musashino Art University and presented a video artwork at a group exhibition held in Yokohama in 1997. Soon after graduating he moved to Germany where he continued to live and work in Berlin until early 2017. His work, which is centered on video but also encompasses performances, drawings and installations, has been shown widely both in Japan and overseas. It has won high acclaim for its keen insights into the subtleties of everyday life and the glimpses it offers of the mystery, unease, beauty, and humor that lie hidden beneath its surface. "Setting the butterfly free" is a video artwork that combines drawing and Koganezawa’s experience in performance, one of his chief focuses in recent years. The work centers on a notebook, every page of which is covered in dots of various colors made by dripping ink. Footage of Koganezawa rhythmically leafing through this notebook is shown on a monitor accompanied by the sound generated by this action. The colorful dots wriggle like worms, appearing and disappearing repeatedly. As an animation technique it is primitive, but the dots, which have bled through and permeated the paper, create symmetrical patterns on facing pages, while the movement and sound call to mind the flapping of butterfly wings. "Graffiti of Velocity", in which video images are projected onto all the walls of the gallery space using a maximum of 20 projectors, is one of Koganezawa’s largest video installation works to date. The footage was shot on a video camera from inside a vehicle driving along the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway at night, with the neon signs and illuminations being documented as traces of the light emitted by the city. Edited in such a way that they form multiple layers, these traces appear on the walls of the gallery space as momentary drawings, the flickering taking on a musical aspect as it envelopes the viewer. |
NOTES
This Collection Data page contains the works and materials in the collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, as of April 1, 2018.
Artists are listed alphabetically by artist’s surname.
Works and materials by the same artists are listed according to the date of the work in principle.
Works whose dates are unidentified are listed at the end of each item. Some works are not listed according to the date of work due to their relations.
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