Text by the artists: The title of the exhibition “Puzzle and Rumination” represents the method Kano and Takahashi adopt when they make artworks and the way they look at the motif and the object. Kano takes photos of the same object at the same place again and again, and makes three-dimensional artworks that consist of the photos layered like the passage of time, and photo-works that, with humorous sense of collage, free gravity and focus of the photos. Takahashi, on the other hand, put irrelevant images together to produce (or sometimes cancels out) the meaning of individual photo and relations between each of them. His works include video-works in which he shoots repetitive process of a phenomenon and edits images of people relentlessly repeating the same phrase. Both of them carefully observe everyday life, pick up something funny hidden there, and repeat dissolution and construction over and over again to strengthen the object, which altogether lead to their original quality. That’s something like exhilarating dislocation, or rhythmical rumination, or maybe intellectual pleasure you feel when you put together a puzzle.

［作家プロフィール］
Sunsuke Kano

1983 Born in Osaka
2008 Graduated from Kyoto Saga University of Arts (BFA)
2010 Graduated from Master Course at Kyoto Saga University of Arts (MFA)
solo show
2009 "CIRCLE CHANGE" (gallery Den / Osaka)
2011 "WARP TUNNEL" (Gallery PARC / Kyoto)
group show
2006 "hangable" (FUKUGAN GALLERY / Osaka)
2007 \"one room\" (campus club box at Kyoto Saga University of Arts / Kyoto)
"Uchu" (gallery Den 58 / Osaka)
2008 "one room`08" (campus club box at Kyoto Saga University of Arts / Kyoto)
"Thinking Print vol.2 -Alternative ways of Photography" (Kyoto Art Center / Kyoto)
"Curator`s Eye 2008 -KANO works-" (Gallery Maronie / Kyoto)
"one room 3 -LIFE CIRCLE-" (former Rissei primary school / Kyoto)
2011 "Canon:New Cosmos of Photography/Tokyo" (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography / Tokyo)
"Puzzle & Rumination" (Social Kitchen/LABORATORY/Division / Kyoto)
2012 "Redefining the Multiple:13 Japanese Printmakers" (Ewing Gallery/UT Downtown Gallery / Tennesee)
"The 15th Taro Okamoto Award for Contemporary Art" (Taro Okamoto Museum of Art, Kawasaki / Kanagawa)
"SHOWCASE#1 curated by minoru shimizu\" (eN arts / Kyoto)
"Emotion Release :reprise" (Gallery ARTSITE / Shiga)
MEDIA
"Young PhotoGraphers File 2008_01", PhotoGRAPHICA, vol.11, 2008, Summer
Minoru Shimizu, Bijutsu Techo, March, 2009, vol.61 no.919, p88


Kohei Takahashi

1977 Born in Kyotanba-cho,Kyoto,JAPAN
Solo Exhibition
2003 「PICK」 Shinanobashi Gallery,Osaka 2001 「KOHEI TAKAHASHI Solo Exhibition」 Shinanobashi Gallery（Osaka）
2004 「KOHEI TAKAHASHI Solo Exhibition」 O Gallery eyes（Osaka）
2006 「emotional pictures」 shin-bi（Kyoto）
2008 「TAKE - A little action and small accident」Kyoto university of Art and Design,Gallery RAKU（Kyoto）
Selected Group Exhibition
2001 「Nomart Projects 2001, Project 1, vol.3 Image and materiality」 Nomart Edition.Project Space（Osaka）
2002 「ISEA2002.MEDIASELECT - Immortal space」Nagoya Citizens' Gallery Yada（Aichi）
2004 「Power of Imaging」Seian University of Art and Design,GALLERY ART SITE（Shiga）
「Jehresgarben」 Nomart Edition（Osaka）
2006 「Dream of dreaming -Diary of Mon 13th-」Kyoto university of Art and Design,Gallery RAKU（Kyoto）
「Material： White Book」 Nomart Edition,Cube & Loft（Osaka）
2007 「WORM HOLE episode5,Takuma ISHIKAWA+Kohei TAKAHASHI」magical artroom（Tokyo）
「yoshihara Art Project 2008 Prize Exhibition」Osaka Contemporary Art Center（Osaka）
「Three two shared plan」 Osaka Contemporary Art Center - Satellite Studio（Osaka）
「"Han" distance of」Kyoto Art Center（Kyoto）「Independent2007-Double Reality-」Aichi Arts Center（Nagaya）
2008 「Small Token,between little stories and public sphere」Liverpool Street Studios Gallery,S.A School of Art, University of South Australia（Australia･Adelaide）
2009 「feat. huntorama salon show」 muzz program space（Kyoto）「NEW bORDER」 TAKOGURA（Kochi）
「From Home to the Museum : Tanaka Tsuneko Collection」The Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama（Wakayama）
2010 「global connections and implications」 Lousiana State University （America・Lousiana）
「The same thing or similar things, and an action.」 AD&A gallery（Osaka）
「T and T we──Artists and artists as others」Nagoya University Project gallery「clas」（Aichi）
2011 「KANO Shunsuke・TAKAHASHI Kohei Exhibition “Puzzle and Rumination”」Social Kitchen（Kyoto）,LABORATORY（Kyoto）,Division（Kyoto）
「iconophobia - Fascination and fear of an iconographic image」Aichi Arts Center room G１、G２（Aichi）、florist_gallery N（Aichi）
Public Collection
Kyoto Seika University
machida city museum of graphic arts
The Museum of Modern Art,WAKAYAMA
Prize
2000 「Exhibition of university of Art & Printmaking」collection（2001 year award）
「KYOTEN 2000」 Mayor Award COPYRIGHT © TAKAHASHI KOHEI. All RIGHTS RESERVED.
2007 「yoshihara Art Project 2008 Prize」 Finalist

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