Kanno Ryouta

It would be a person’s instinctive sense of nature to feel the freshness of the morning sun plugged into the window or to feel the mystery of the tranquility of the lake. On the other hand, it is also a human sense to be impressed by seeing the mind-boggling manual work.

Mr. Kanno’s production pursues fusion and contrast by adding natural phenomena to the elements of sculpture. The task of dismantling and reconstructing natural phenomena is similar to the relationship between different sensations, as one recalls by associating odors and temperatures.

Mr. Kanno, who had been making human sculptures using the dry lacquer technique for more than 10 years, moved the subject to the inside of people in the wake of the corona wreck. And what he currently produces is not a beautiful form of imitation, but a fantastic sculpture created by harmony with light. The essence of these expressions is not the existence itself as an object, but the phenomenon of reflecting and transmitting light. That is, it can be interpreted as a “sculpture of light” that reflects the swaying heart of humans. Alternatively, if the expression of color created by the refraction of light is interpreted as a paint spread as thick as two canvases, it can be said to be a “painting by phenomenon”.

From the context of works, we can read that it is a question and answer for reconsidering the beauty of cognition in the depths, freed from the concept of matter as a sculpture.