We will exhibit eighteen works which consist with both of colour and monochrome photographs and sculptures related to the objects of the photo works. We will have a artist reception in the first opening day.

The Poetry of Katsunori Kobayashi
Can poetry take a tangible form, or even be wrapped in colors?
This is the question that Katsunori Kobayashi attempts to answer.
Minutely detailed bronze miniatures of a swing and a jungle gym. Something with a plaster-like texture blankets these surfaces – white expanses, like snowy fields on a table. Are these images from a forgotten past left to gather dust, or a dream of the future? The flat ground that resembles a town square, once loaded with plates, spoons and jugs, seems to return to its original state: just a table. Kobayashi’s camera focus makes these objects appear clearly, whereas their surroundings become only dimly visible in the patchy haze, transforming themselves into a more poetic reality. Pop colors like blue, green and red occasionally emerge to add a touch of color to the scene, producing a vital rhythm in the imagery.
Kobayashi’s work hovers between reality and unreality, existence and imagination, memory and time, collapse and reconstruction – it is precisely the conflict and tension between these contradictory terms that imbues it with poetry. This unique space created by Kobayashi crystallizes out of the medium of photography, full of a faint, quivering and beautiful poetry.
(Fumio Nanjo, Director of The Mori Art Museum)