Year: 2022
Medium: mixed media
Dimensions: 80 x 120 x 2.5 cm (31 1/2 x 47 1/4 x 1 in.)
Acquired from Yumiko Chiba Associates, 2023
This work was created using image printing technology in 3D. Although it has a definite sense of materiality as if painted with a brush, the surface has a more sculptural than painterly quality, looking like it is structurally piling thin and textured layers atop one another. Kaneuji has always used a diverse range of media (materials), but the creation of this piece involved a kind of double and triple substitution of media—print that has a collage appearance, and protuberances in the processed ink that resemble oil painting. The titles of this series look like binary codes of Ps and Os and refer to the materials and frameworks used by the artist up to this point, and which were employed in the creation of this work: painting, object, oil, photo, and print. If one takes another look at the composition, what catches the eye are the thick orange, silver, and blue lines of spray paint visible on the surface layer, and the extremely magnified purple distortions that spread like a stain on the areas of the base layer. In the layer between those two, fluorescent color surfaces and brushstrokes overlap, and motifs such as watering hoses and tubes abruptly appear together with a concrete spatiality. Each layer has a different degree of resolution and textural quality, which gives rise to an instability where the layers repel one another and never perfectly blend. This realm of ambiguity, complexity, and instability is common to Kaneuji’s work. It is as if the liquid is slowly soaking into and encroaching upon that realm, and fantasy and fiction blur together. This approach runs through all his work, whether in 2D or 3D.
