Kenjiro Okazaki
Biography
Works
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But in truth, the first creatures were driven from the sea. They fled. That's why so many of us get seasick. A mudskipper crawled onto the beach, raising its head. "Look," he said, beholding the vast expanse. "Thousands of miles of flat nothing." Fish swi, 2024
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Heads poking out, a shape with lion body and man's head. A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun. Embankment crowded, a vast image troubles my sight. Everyone shouting, voices affectionate, half-crying. We're all gonna die. Darkness drops again. I heard duck, 2024
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He dug potatoes in the field, lit dried rapeseed husks on fire, plucked peppers from the farmer's field, did all kinds of mischief. On an autumn day, after the rain had stopped, He emerged relieved to find the sky clear and the sound of shrike's voices ec, 2023
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There Was Darkness Over All the Land Unto the Ninth Hour/草をかりてやを かこむ, 2023
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無量光仏 / オン・アミリタ・テイゼイ・カラ・ウン / Crossing mountains and coming for people, 2021
Exhibitions
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Kenjiro Okazaki
Mettere a nudo / Aeon Muttered 14 Oct - 16 Nov 2024Kenjiro Okazaki's artistic oeuvre often explores the fundamental principles of form and creation, transcending the boundaries of specific genres. He perceives diverse subjects—such as painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature—as interchangeable...Read more -
La Promesse d'Avril
3 - 27 Apr 2024Sheila Hicks, Yasuko Hirano, Yasuhisa Kohyama, Kenjiro Okazaki, Kaz Oshiro, Tobias Pils and Mungo Thomson at Mtk Contemporary Art, Kyoto, Japan 20-1 Okazaki Minamigoshocho, Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, 606-8334, Japan galerie...Read more -
Kenjiro Okazaki
FIAC 2021 20 - 24 Oct 2021TOPICA PICTUS is a suite of abstract paintings, each paired with a short essay and reference image(s), which function as key components to provide multi-layered experiences to audiences. In this...Read more -
Kenjiro Okazaki
TOPICA PICTUS / Rue de Turenne 20 Mar - 29 May 2021galerie frank elbaz is pleased to announce TOPICA PICTUS / Rue de Turenne , Kenjiro Okazaki’s first solo show with the gallery. From March to June this year, Okazaki sheltered...Read more
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