Kantaro Tanaka
Solid Constriction Landscape
I create specimens for my paintings. To craft the perfect specimen for a beautiful painting, I distort and manipulate their forms, fixing them in place. I arrange them in a manner that allows for easy identification and classification. Pins are carefully inserted to secure the specimens in their desired positions.
Born in Tokyo in 1989. Tanaka completed his MA in Intermedia Art at Tokyo University of the Arts. He conducted fieldwork based on various games and films he grew up with. He develops the motifs collected there into various media such as video, sound, objects and drawings, and he mainly creates installations using these media. Tanaka established and operates the artist-run space ‘JUNGLE GYM’ in Kita-ku, Tokyo.
Major exhibitions include “Death Destroyer D❚straction” (former cinema, 2023), “ghost below overwrite” (Decameron, 2023), “Gonen wo toru ikada, trailer” (JUNGLE GYM, 2022) and “Planet SAMSA”(Ushigome Kagurazaka, 2022).
