Sakan KAN-NO has been creating works derived from his intuition with the experience of musical improvisation, that can be described as the paintings of frozen music. The dynamic and tensional charm felt as if listening to the improvisational part of Modal Jazz is amazingly sealed in such improvisational drawings.

The common logic and concepts shared by music and fine arts are the fundamentals of KAN-NO's art philosophy. In recent years, the evolution of equipments, computers, and gadgets make music more abundant and full of diversity. And this conjunction with the development of music gives rise to a revolution in consciousness gradually undertaken in KAN-NO's thinking toward his own art creating process.

"Quantize" is a musical term means eliminating the imprecision in real performances through computational processes. The title indicates KAN-NOﾕs new methodological concept which greatly differs from the previous: the emphasize on composition structuring and the relationship among all the elements in a work, while keeping his original unique vitality and minimized improvisation. KAN-NO rearranges ready-made templates and trimmings of works in the past on a picture plane which is divided as a grid, employing careful consideration upon the whole composition. It is after the composition is determined that he turns to paintbrushes. Although each fragment is detached and varies in origins, through the newly built relations on the picture, those fragments are restructured and ultimately form a new work.

What the improvisational painting brings is the inspiration of being released from reproduction and regularity, and freely enjoying the instance as all is harmoniously balanced. However, it is likely that improvisational gestures depending on "subject" are viewed as merely repetition of personal habits or hackneyed phrases. In reality, the world of improvisation should be free and infinite. Thus, KAN-NO suggests the representations of "object" and the world formed by reconstruction as another interpretation of improvisational freedom and infinity.

KAN-NO's latest style allows him to look back and review his own representations in the past. Liberated from the narrowed down vision, he brings about a new possibility making the artist's position from subject to object in the art creating process.