ARTIST PROFILE

Kawai Shimpei

河合晋平
[ Japan ]

MESSAGE

I have been directing my attention to "mimicry" which living things use to survive. I've made my various media mimic art, because I'm impressed with the effective method which living things use for survival, although this is only outward appearance. They evolve from oil-color to sand, form-polystyrene, resin, roll and pasta. Then they continue their species just like living things. I call them the "Existing objects" for convenience sake in contrast to living objects. Although I think they're going to propagate themselves more and change into something I cannot expect, here are the figures which they adapt themselves to in the period called the "present", rather than the "past" or the "future".

PROFILE

Kawai Shimpei [Japan]

1971, Born from Osaka in Japan. 1996, Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts. 1998, Graduated from The Master's Course In Kyoto City University of Arts.

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