TAISUKE KOYAMA
METRONOM announces RAINBOW VARIATIONS AND OTHER WORKS, the first solo show in Italy by Japanese photographer TAISUKE KOYAMA. The exhibition is curated by Selva Barni and Francesco Zanot and will be opened from Saturday, October 12nd until December 28th, 2013.
Rainbow Variations and Other Works presents the Japanese artist Taisuke Koyama with a selection ranging from the initial phase of his career to his most recent research. The thread running through this journey is the transformation of reality into images that challenge the beholder's expectations and ability to recognise portions of their own world therein, calling into question the processes of perception and visual representation as forms of knowledge.
At the centre of the exhibition, a selection from the works Rainbow Form (2009), Melting Rainbows (2010) and Rainbow Waves (2013) supply an in-depth overview of Koyama's relationship with the themes of reproduction and repetition, plunging the spectator into a kaleidoscope of sparkling colours. A grouping of close-up shots of a rainbow printed on a poster in the centre of Tokyo, Rainbow Form is not only a thoroughgoing reflection on the two-dimensional nature of each image and its relationship with the photographed subject (in a manner similar to Stieglitz's Equivalents, the water particles suspended in the air are replaced here by typographical dots) but is also the departure point of Melting Rainbows, for which several inkjet prints of the previous series were exposed to atmospheric agents on the artist's balcony and then re-photographed. Rainbow Waves is instead the result of immersing the same prints in seawater so that the refraction of the light on the surface mixes with the earlier images, radically modifying them.
On show here for the first time in complete form, Entropix is a collection of 60 close-ups paradoxically suspended halfway between abstraction and hyperrealism. Lemon peel, curtain fabric, bird droppings, paint spread on a wall and numerous other objects found simply by walking through the city streets are the foundations of this reflection, highlighting the superficial nature of images captured by our eye or the camera lens, both fixed on the skin of each thing. Organic and inorganic are thus fused in an indissoluble amalgam, at once mysterious and sensual, as in the images of the series Sandwich Textures in which glass spheres and a dark liquid recall the formation of a new universe.
TAISUKE KOYAMA | RAINBOW VARIATIONS AND OTHER WORKS
Curated by Selva Barni and Francesco Zanot
October, 12th - December, 28th 2013
METRONOM
142 Viale G. Amendola, Modena IT
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