Kodama Gallery has introduced Takaishi through two group shows; 'ignore your perspective 15 - Novalis' in last year and 'ignore your perspective 18 - Fascinating Analysis' in March. This solo exhibition is to announce recent works after the last solo one at Tokyo Wonder Site in 2008. Takaishi's characteristics, rough matière by sturdy stroke, optical illusion expression bending perspective and extensity intentionally, and an enigmatic motif, stimulate the curiosity.  

Henry David Thoreau's book, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods, explains that a vein is a sort of pattern forming a shape of a leaf, like a relationship between guts and a shape of body to a person, so that all creation has such secret pattern. Also, he said Champollion, interpreter of hieroglyph, approached to truth of nature through cracking a hidden pattern of it. Like the preceding, to Takaishi, 'drawing' is an action to read the images in his inner mind, and he tries to show interpreted 'language / word in dream' on canvas. Before his work, we should be a person like Champollion. 

The new exhibition consists of paintings and drawings expressed as an extension of his world of view filling with curiosity. 

Courtesy of Kodama Gallery