角文平は手元にある材料からステレオタイプな「物」を作りだしたり、レディメイドのモノに全く別種の要素を付け加えることで「記号」としての意味が現れてくる。

物と物をパズルのように組み合わせることで本来の物が持つ機能や意味をずらし、新たな意味を生じさせる手腕に驚かされる。
芽の生えた家具やボルダリングと石庭を掛け合わせたインスタレーションなどスケールも様々だ。

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【作品説明】
加工され熊の置物となった木が、地に根を下ろしていた頃の記憶を呼び起こされ、そこから木が芽吹いている。
既製品がすでに持っているその物の歴史を見直し、さらに意味を持たせることで、新たな物語がはじまる。

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A characteristic of Kado’s work is to begin production by creating stereotyped objects using materials at hand. If they were not stereotypical, they could not function as ‘signs’, but would signify something more.

Another peculiarity is his generation of new meaning by combining objects into forms like jigsaws, and creating a divergence between the original function and the new meaning. The Human Nest series, combining houses and cranes, tactfully expresses the instability of our contemporary urban residential environment. It is fascinating how Kado’s work clearly looks interesting as an object as a result of a combination of familiar objects. The oscillation of meaning generated by this method has broadened in scope over the past few years.

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■Biography
-1978 born in Fukui
-2002 BA in Metal Craft at Industrial and Craft Design Department, Musashino Art University

■Solo Exhibitions
-2022 “”””Ark of Space”””” Shibuya Hikarie / Tokyo
-2021”The garden / Secret room”　Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
-2018 “”””Fountain / Sleep””””, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
-2016 “”””Bunpei Kado : Proto-Planet””””, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
-2014 “”””Bunpei Kado – SCAPE””””, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
-2012 “NEST”, Art Front Gallery / Tokyo
-2011 Galerie Steine / Nagano
-2010 “Share A Table”, space cafe at Pole Pole Za / Tokyo
-2008 Diorama, Metal Art Museum, Hikarinotani / Chiba
-2006 CUBIC GALLERY / Osaka
-2003 ”SKY FISH in GARASHA” Gallery＋cafe Garasha / Tokyo
-2002 GALERIE SOL / Tokyo（’03 ’05 ’07 ’11）

The wood, fashioned into a bear figurine, is stirred by memories of the time when it once stood rooted in the earth, and from it, a tree begins to bud anew.
By reconsidering the history that a ready-made object already carries and imbuing it with additional meaning, a new story begins to unfold.

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COMING SOON...

COMING SOON...