Shunsuke Imai explores a sense of three-dimensionality that inevitably emerges in flat-surfaced paintings. The warps and twists revealed on the flat paintings using stripes and dots convey a three-dimensional sense like fluttering flags. Imai's works in this exhibition feature a sculpture made of stripes in random arrangements transcribed and dyed onto cloth, as well as large-scale paintings made using the same patterns. Viewers are reinforced the concept of three-dimensionality within flat surfaces by looking at flat and three-dimensional works at the same time.

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© Shusuke Imai
courtesy of the artist and Hagiwara Projects