Kodama Gallery Kyoto is pleased to present a group exhibition 'not a total waste' by four artists.

Maoya Kishi raises a question that how an artwork can become 'art.' Kishi has worked on unknown thing in extremely simple composition and concept.

Masahiro Sekiguchi works on general artwork beyond genre as well as two and three dimensional ones and performance. With the basic theme 'human,' the artist seek for an essence of it in every methodologies.

Keisuke Sugimoto's work is based on a painting in zero gravity. Thus, Sugimoto creates distorted pleats inspired by his idea that painting cannot maintain flatness without gravity.

Exhibiting at Kodama Gallery for the first time, Yusuke Taninaka thinks a body is the most important factor in his work. There is an unproductive sculpture, holes in a stone filled with vegetables, and such action  identifies 'feeding vegetables to a stone' with 'the artist himself having them in his mouth.' 

The exhibition selected four artists who perform unproductive actions. However, it will be a try to open a new horizon of the basic direction of art. 

*image (left)
Flesh and Fell, 2013
marble, granite, tomato, lime, lemon, grapefruit. 70x330x95(h)cm
© Yusuke Taninaka
courtesy of the artist and Kodama Gallery