Kohei Nawa
Born 1975 in Osaka, Japan
Lives and works in Kyoto, Japan
In his distinctive practice, Kohei Nawa uses glass beads, prisms, glue, plaster, and spray foam to cover found objects, such that their original contours become variously distorted and magnified. The artist explains that through this process, “the existence of the object itself is replaced by ‘a husk of light’, and the new vision, ‘the cell of an image,’ is shown.” Fittingly his recent series is titled “PixelCell” (2009-), for which the artist has used taxidermy animals, including deer, cheetahs, rabbits, and coyotes. Nawa has also founded an artist collective space dubbed “Sandwich,” through which he takes on multi-disciplinary design projects.
KOHEI NAWA
SCAI THE BATHHOUSE
PixCell-Deer#51
Kohei Nawa
PixCell [Ostrich#2]
Kohei Nawa
PixCell-Double Deer#5
Kohei Nawa
PixCell-RGB-Picture#1
Kohei Nawa
PixCell-RGB-Text#1
Kohei Nawa