2025.5.24 – 6.21
Opening hour: 12.00-18.00
Closed on Sun, Mon, National holiday

Shinichiro Kano (b. 1982) paints motifs such as playing cards, dice, and mazes made from twigs arranged on the floor, altering their perspectives, scales, and relationships. In doing so, a work that may appear complete on its own begins to take on a more enigmatic atmosphere and symbolic meaning through its relationship with other paintings. It is as if these connections hint at complex narratives hidden behind everyday objects, or suggest the existence of underlying principles that reveal the workings of the world.

“By adding new elements to the objects and strokes I have drawn so far, I arrange them on the canvas as if forming a coherent sentence. The composition of the painting incorporates various layers of time and space, and I repeatedly copy and paste fragments from the painting onto other canvases, generating new connections and continuously transforming them into different meanings. Just as individual letters have no meaning on their own but gain significance when strung together as text, the fragments within a painting link together to acquire new rhythms and meanings. In the exhibition space, the process of play continues—not only within each painting but also in how the works relate to one another. Placing paintings within the space of Satoko Oe Contemporary, the venue for this exhibition, will create a different kind of landscape than what emerges in my studio, and I am excited to see what kind of text I, too, can reweave as a viewer. I hope each person will freely compose their own text—drawing on their own viewing rhythm—within the limited contexts of the paintings and the exhibition space.”

Shinichiro KANO