ディレクター、ラファエレ氏によるプレスリリースより Masato Nagai has combined black and white images in World Tour (2007-2008), a huge wall piece (77”x187”). Photocopies of photographs shot by the artist in Melbourne (Australia), Kochi (Japan), and New York are alternated with silkscreen reproductions of photocopied details from Nagai’s own etchings, and with photocopies from books, catalogues, and posters related to the artist’s sojourn in New York. Auto-biographical visual notes from the artist’s experiences - in his homeland, during his stay at the Australian residency program Wardlow Project, and at HSF - coexist with fragments from his work in a monumental surface, which swarms with interlocked figures, landscapes, and texts. The diverse whole is united by the poetic presence of irregular snippets from Nagai’s etchings, which transmigrate with the zig-zag of a butterfly through the 77 photocopies. If on the one hand, images that are extracted from their contexts as isolated Xerox copies are reintroduced here in a fluid cognitive/memory dimension, on the other hand they are reduced to a changing interrelationship of blacks and whites against the regular grid of the photocopy pages. Raffaele Bedarida, June 2008
The (Art of) Dissemblance Opening reception: June 26, 2008, 6:00-10:00 pm On view by appointment: June 27-July 6, 2008