Kohei Nawa

PixCell. elk #2. 2009
view of the exhibition @ maison Hermès ,Ginza Tokyo

PixCell. Deer #16. 2008

PixCell. Coyote. 2008

Detail

PixCell.Toy-Mario#2. 2007

By covering surface of an object with transparent glass beads, the existence of the object itself is replaced by "a husk of light", and the new vision "the cell of an image" (PixCell) is shown.

Most of the motifs, like stuffed animals are found through the internet. I search some auction sites and choose from the images which appear on a monitor as pixel. However, the stuffed animals which actually have been purchased and sent have real flesh feel and smell, and have a discrepancy with images on the monitor. I then transpose them to PixCell in turn - by Japanese artist KOHEI NAWA, known for his pixcell series

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KOHEI NAWA: L_B_S (liquid, beads and scum)*
@ Maison Hermès, Ginza Tokyo
June 19th to September 23d, 2009

* liquid, beads and scum represents three phases of growth for nawa's cellular skins

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