Year: 2022
Medium: acrylic on canvas, wood panel
Dimensions: 180 x 135 x 6 cm (70 7/8 x 53 1/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
Acquired from Mitsukoshi Contemporary Gallery, 2022
"Heaven's Door" series is based on a set of gate doors that were used in France in 17th century. In the world of video games that is often set in the medieval century, the architecture and design of this era are often followed. For Tada, a video game lover, old gates which should have been relics of the past in the real world, were something he saw while playing video games and felt a sense of déjà vu. Even if one looks at it in the game, it is an object that can never be touched by hand in reality. Tada surprisingly created this work as a painting with paint. It is not a relief or casting, but a mass of paint. The artist holds an ax facing right in front of the finished work. The documentary of this work reveals that the artist was extremely concentrated while stabbing onto the doors with the ax. Tada demonstrates his earnest urge to destroy the boundary between reality (the artist's body) and virtual space (the door of the game), which should never have come into contact. The particularly bright yellow color of the inner part of the work, which was exposed by the ax wound, leaves a vivid impression that it is not a tree (door) at all and entirely unrealistic.
