A chair come up faintly in darkish room. Wall clock stoped ticking down. A table makes us feel the vestige of human slightly. On first sight these can be seen as real scenery but are created being based on a 1/12 model. The process of Kan’s creation is making a model, taking a photo and painting. He call this as “psychic photography”

What the artist must do is seeing invisible something for others and maiking it visible for everyone. I think “psychic photography” of the moon’s reverse, which is nobody can see, taken by Koichi Mita is similar to the function of art. But regrettably I am not capable of taking “psychic photography”. So I constructed the system to fix the invisible image to canvas by reinterpretation “pshychic pothography” with getting across various media.

When I see his works actually, many questions arise in my mind. What is the world only he can see? Nobody is there. I cannot feel the existence of the artist himself either. Painting as cold and mystical vision. Why does Kan stand to such an indirect way?

In the background of our recognizable world, there is “death” without fail. It is impossible for me to visualize the reality of death by painting, because the painting feels us the existence of the artist’s body. What I pursue is to paint the world after my death by myself. It is the painting for making impossible painting possible.

Although Kan is known as a photo-realism painter, who is good at precise graduation expression, this way may be the attempt to clear away himself. This exhibition, is his first solo-exhibition, will be composed of 16 series of works “Fictional Scenery” mainly and show his world at two venues, YOKOI FINE ART and PLUS ART FAIR. “psychic photography” is his own way to fix a digital data to support medium by combining ink jet print with an air brush. Please see his new possibility of painting.

＊The text provided by YOKOI FINE ART.

Opened dates: November 19 - December 4, 2010