Photo: Yan Da Wei
I take existing figures, attach parts from other characters, add a coat of white paint, and leave the joins blank. By scribbling faces on the figures, I then remake them into new imaginary characters. The effect is that of some foreign body suddenly attaching itself to the figure's head, turning it into a different character. They come in multiples, so could also be viewed as an imaginary group or family divorced from their original meaning, or beings from another planet.
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Kaneuji Teppei
Born 1978 in Osaka, lives in Tokyo. Completed the graduate course in sculpture
at Kyoto City University of Arts. Recent activities include the solo show splash & flake (Hiroshima
City Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007) and participation in Beautiful New
World: Contemporary Visual Culture from Japan (Long March Project, Beijing;
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, 2007), All about Laughter: Humor in contemporary
art (Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2007), the 2008 MOT Annual (Museum of Contemporary
Art Tokyo, 2008) and Team 10 Kaneuji Teppei (Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya,
2008) presenting the fruits of his TWS residence. He has a solo show planned
for March 2009 at Yokohama Museum of Art, making him the youngest artist the
Museum has featured in a solo show to date.
