Eiji WATANABE Tokyo 2001

Eiji Watanabe continues to create works that reconsider, from fresh perspectives, our perceptions and assumptions surrounding the “objects” and “words” that exist in our everyday lives through the use of familiar materials.

Unbound by any single form of expression, Watanabe’s works take various forms—including sculpture, painting, and photography—while consistently presenting the artist’s distinctive worldview. This solo exhibition will feature approximately fifteen new works.

At his solo exhibition held last year at our Tokyo gallery, Watanabe presented works from his Magnification series, which further emphasized the act of seeing. In these paintings, the weave of the canvas fabric itself was enlarged and depicted directly onto the canvas surface.

In addition, Eiji Watanabe is currently participating in the exhibition Encounters at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery (through March 18). Works on display include Garden of Names, in which plants removed from encyclopedias are spread across the entire floor; works themed around regeneration; and Nudist, a series in which colorful rubber balls are cut open in an attempt to bring three-dimensional forms closer to two dimensions.

LIST

Front on the Back 2001
stamps 35 x 30.5 cm

Earthwork 2001
photograph, glass 39 x 49.3 cm

Angry Photographer 1997-2000 ed.3
photographs 25.1 x 30.3 cm each , (a set of 8)

Bullet of Retard 2001
bullet, lead, plastic 50 x10 cm

Diving of Retard 2001
glass, water 9 x14 x14 cm

Re-Revival / Pig(tableaux)2001
pig skin, cosmetic powder 15.6 x 22.5 cm
21.5 x 25.8 cm
20.1 x 29.3 cm

Re-Revival / Pig (tail) 2001
pig skin 157 x130 cm

Fossilization 2001
plaster 21 x38 x19 cm

Abstract Sculpture 2001
plaster 12 x25 x45 cm

Re-Revival L 2001
wax, skeleton model 26 x25 x45 cm