Reiko Kanazawa employs different media such as installation, sculpture, video and text, and questions the diverging perceptions of reality in a poetic manner, particularly focussing on the contrasting vantage points in Japan and the West. Using an artistic strategy characterised to equal degrees by fine irony and a refreshing triviality, Kanazawa attempts to undermine apparently fixed levels of meaning.<\/p>\n
In K\u00fcnstlerhaus Bethanien, among other things, Kanazawa is showing the installation “Katzenmilch” (Cat Milk), an oversized cardboard box, which is painted and pasted to resemble the packaging of a special milk for cats found in German shops. Visitors are invited to crawl into the box and to look out through two holes into two mirrors in cat-eye form, so experiencing the ‘world’ and the other artworks in the room from a ‘cat’s level’. The artist took the idea for this work from a popular novel written in Japan at the beginning of the 20th century, a satirical observation, from a cats perspective, of a Japanese society that was desperately attempting to combine western and Japanese traditions.<\/p>\n
In addition, Kanazawa shows a number of paintings based on mountain paintings by anonymous artists, which she has manipulated by covering parts with textiles and ‘forging’ signatures, as well as a video work referring to two paintings by Schinkel in the Berlin Nationalgalerie, which ironically examines the primacy of interpretation of the artwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-3299","kb_exhibition","type-kb_exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":3294,"article_image_bu_de":"","article_image_bu_en":"","datum_suche":"2013-07-11 10:32:05"},"yoast_head":"\n