Hirofumi Isoya deals in riddles, optical illusions and visual paradoxes. His works in multiple media are never quite what they seem -- though the first impressions they spark, sans any information about the artist's intentions, are often the most striking. That was my experience, anyway, at a solo show of his recent works at SCAI Piramide, a new exhibit space opened in April this year in Roppongi, Tokyo by the well-known contemporary art gallery SCAI The Bathhouse. Isoya's title for the exhibition, "Go, go, go, said the bird: humankind cannot bear very much reality", is a quote from a poem by T.S. Eliot. And indeed, the artist seems determined to show us just how readily we cobble together our own arbitrary meanings from ambiguous images and events. more... |
