Year: 2021
Medium: UV print, acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 117 x 80.5 cm (46 x 31 3/4 in.)
Acquired from EUKARYOTE, 2022
Katsuki is best known for his “Pixel Painting” series, which is generally made by using paint to imitate a 24-bit color display. As if some sort of a huge but low-resolution display screen, the substance of the paint is stuck and intertwined within. Although the painting is not luminescent in nature, with the use of optical illusions it becomes a painting where one can even feel virtual lights. This work is like a glitchy, and hopeless computer display fading into a gray screen. From a distance, dots that appear to be here and there on the painting are a series of figures (by means of RGB brightness) printed on UV. Even though the vivid colors of this work are overlaid as if they were all by freehand painting, the inorganic sequence of numbers has lowered the saturation and brightness of the color to make it look darker.
