Exhibition

Teppei Kaneuji	: S.F.(Smoke and Fog)
"Model of Something #7” 2014

  • 金氏徹平:S.F.(Smoke and Fog)

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Teppei Kaneuji : S.F.(Smoke and Fog)

2021 Sep. 10 (Fri.) – Oct. 3(Sun.)

Art Front Gallery is pleased to announce solo exhibition of Teppei Kaneuji.
Date 2021 Sep. 10 (Fri.) – Oct. 3(Sun.)
Hours Wed. - Fri. 12:00 - 19:00 / Sat. Sun. and Sep. 23rd 11:00 - 17:00 *shortening in opening hours
Closed Mondays and Tuesdays
artist at the gallery 2021 Sep. 10 (Fri.) 15:00-16:30


Drilling holes
Yukie Kamiya (Gallery director, Japan Society, New York)

Teppei Kaneuji’s tower (2001–), a work that began in the isolation of his studio, is almost like a portrait of his own evolvement. First the drawing that superimposes his own shelter on top of masonry walls, it became a video piece in 2009 and then transformed into a three-dimensional stage setting in 2017, at which point Kaneuji began to drill holes into his tower. The presence of these holes gave rise to an inside and an outside, a “here” and” there”, and a connecting path emerged between the depth of his work and other people.

It would be fair to say that Kaneuji’s true strength are the expectation-breaking leaps of his collaborative projects. As an artist, Kaneuji’s major practice is the collage. He connects pre-existing images such as screen tones, manga and other printed matter, or combines various objects such as figurines or items of daily use, or brings together people from different media and genres, thereby creating unexpected contexts which imbue his artworks with new meanings and uses. Kaneuji’s talent shines in collaborative projects because collaborations are, in a way, collages of relations. This is particular apparent in the stage productions he has been creating with playwright, Toshiki Okada since 2011*: an intervention of language and movement by actors infuses Kaneuji’s amalgamations of objects with new meanings and ideas, allowing the work to grow beyond Kaneuji’s initial setup. Or rather, Kaneuji leaves a margin for others to add any interpretation and creates an open cycle of possibilities. Indeed, Kaneuji is a master of using holes to create connective paths.

In the 1970s, artist Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–’78) drilled holes into derelict structures in urban spaces. His signature works include Day’s End (1975) at Hudson River Pier 52 in New York; Conical Intersect (1975) using 17th century buildings about to be demolished in Paris as the Centre George Pompidou was built nearby; and Window Blow-Out (1978), for which he photographed windows smashed by residents forced to leave their apartments due to urban redevelopment. Matta-Clark’s practice changed perspectives on urban spaces, questioned institutional power and authority, and created margins for intervention by other people and communities.

In the town of Suzu in Ishikawa Prefecture, Kaneuji also experimented with opening up holes in the structures of the city. Pasting large-sized photographs onto a billboard, a water tank and other objects, Kaneuji squatted existing structures all over the city for his own artworks. Having found inspiration in the kiriko lantern towers used in folk festivals in the region, Kaneuji created his own kiriko towers. The images of hands, stones and sticks penetrating the tower or of liquids flowing from its holes form collages with the surrounding scenery, inviting everyone who gathers nearby into a new relational cycle.

* Impossible To Understand You, It’s Almost like Electrical Devices (2011, Owl Spot Theater, Tokyo), Wakattasan no Cookie, A part of ‘oishii okashii oshibai (yummu, funny play) (2016, Kanagawa Arts Theater, Yokohama), Eraser Mountain (2019, Kyoto Experiment, Kyoto / 2020, NYU Skirball, New York), Eraser Forest (2020, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa)

"Smoke and Fog (Murano) " 2015 / Plastic products, glass products, Venetian glass(Berengo studio)

《Games, Dance and the Constructions (Plywood) #2》2014 / screen print on plywood

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