CLEAR EDITION & GALLERY is pleased to announce its 3rd solo show with Japanese artist, Mikito Ozeki. After his group show “TOKYO STREET“ and his solo exhibition at Ikkan Art International in Singapore, Ozeki’s international reputation has been continuously growing.

Often focus goes to Ozeki’s technique of paper cutting. However Ozeki himself has a much more objective stance towards this, and consistently seeks for new possibilities with his techniques through his works. Like a computer hardware that can produce numerous images with a basic programming based on“zero’s”and“one’s”, Ozeki considers himself as a machine to output his “afterimage”, updating it (himself) day by day. In contrast to automatism, Ozeki’s cutting procedures depend on a much more physical aspect and the movement of his entire body, which is a result of everyday discipline.

Ozeki’s newest works reminds us once more that paper cutting is a three dimensional expression With new challenges of the changing impression from the position the work is viewed from, he portrays a significantly different way of layers and depth compared to painting. With his cutting knife and paper, Ozeki confronts the question of what it means to leave tracks in a painting as well as the general meaning of the word itself.

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courtesy of the artist and Clear Edition & Gallery