Works アーカイブ - Kanako TADA Works

旅`Beautiful women, flowers, landscapes, everything becomes a commodity when they are painted as images on canvases. Painting is a commodity. They circulate like paper money. Fabric is fixed by nails on canvas. They do not blow by winds.
*I made a story about* one fictional artist. He was at the top of the mountain. He painted landscapes to sell as his works in an art gallery. Besides, he drew and painted quickly a mountain landscape on a piece of his scrap fabric, to send to his family, friends, or lovers, as an intimate letter. The work title is ***A Letter from Artist*** (2021). I made this fabric as associable with a letter paper, used of private. I freeze flash at this moment when the rolled letter is opened by the receiver’s hand. Therefore, this fabric curls like an after rotulus paper are opened.´A Letter from Artist, 29.5x14cm, pencil, oil color, and glue on cotton,2021

花`For me, producing a collage is the same activity as writing my diary. I receive flyers and newspaper every day in my post. I define such a routine as I receive art material, not the way of buying them like paying money to buy colors in art supply stores. I assert words and images which are printed on paper. Collage is a surrealistic medium to use. There is a bridge between image-making and language-making. Words go astray, they become just a tool and are used for law and contract. I want to rescue words and letters from documents. I attempt to present their artistic power which words themselves essentially and primarily have. As the title suggests, Broken Flower (2021) is a wordplay. Literally, flowers are never broken, they just wither, leaving seeds for a new generation. Words have also never been broken. But people say, for instance, ‘My English is broken.’ I want to express that words as material (not tools) never broken in a way. Rather, when you feel your language is broken, it is the moment when the language is reborn and transformed on your tongue.´

Broken Flower, 2021, mixed media, 21x28cm

Triage Gelb,21×28.5cm, water colour on paper,2021

Triage Orange, 29.7x21cm, water colour on paper,2021

Triage Red, 28.5x 21xcm, water colour on paper,2021

山`where your body is begun? I like to draw landscapes. One day, I was confused when I draw mountains many times. Am I drawing mountains or writing the hiragana へ (hē) ? The form of へ and mountain’s form overlapped in my brain. Their forms are similar, that is why. Drawing and writing experiences both of meet on my painting work Radicals (2021). ´