YUKA TSURUNO GALLERY is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Tetsuro Kano.

Tetsuro Kano has been creating new landscape by combining ready made objects and plants such as seeds and fruits. In the installation called Naturplan series that he has been working on since 2009, An uncontrollable element such as a bird is sometimes throuwn into the exhibition space. In his world, objects and spaces are deviated from their original purpose and meaning, and thus our sense of value and recognition will be hung in air. As such, Kano's work invite you to imagine new perception and existence of plural perspective of the world.

Tetsuro Kano’s has been working on drawing on paper using masking tapes while focusing on residency-based projects where he produced installations. In this exhibition, a new series of installation Savage Structure that focuses on "the objects as a figurative art" is showed . In this series, he continues to question about the meaning and values of things and spaces by suggesting a new perspective of the world, while showing his development of installation that also formed as sculptures.

Tetsuro Kano was born in Miyagi in 1980. He graduated Tokyo Zokei University majoring in design (Environmental Design/City Environmental Course) and received MFA at the same university. The recent solo exhibitions include Naturplan, Bloomberg Pavilion Project Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (2011); Clear signs, Vivid tones, HARA MUSEUM ARC, Gunma (2012), Abstract maps, Concrete territories, Moerenuma Park, Sapporo (2013), and group exhibitions include BIKKURI, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori (2010); Breathing Atolls: Japan-Maldives Contemporary Art Exhibition, National Art Gallery, Sultan Park, Maldives (2012); Niwa wo Megureba, Vangi Sculpture Garden Museum, Shizuoka (2012); In Serch of Critical Imagination, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka (2014).

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© Tetsuro Kano
courtesy of the artist