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Kouichi Tabata,"72 colours (Birds)", 2014, 72 pieces of the original A4 drawings. Courtesy of the artist and White Rainbow Gallery, London.
Exhibition
Scape by Kouichi Tabata
17 Sep 2015 – 23 Oct 2015
Event times
17 September – 23 October 2015
Monday – Friday, 9:30am – 5pm
Cost of entry
Admission free
Address
- 13/14 Cornwall Terrace
- London
- NW1 4QP
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses: 2, 13, 18, 27, 30, 74, 82, 113, 139, 189 and 274
- Tube: Baker St.
Kouichi Tabata’s first UK solo show explores drawing beyond line- and mark-making, tending towards the painterly. His paintings of still-life subjects are sequenced into animations as a kind of ‘still footage’, leading to an exploration of the dimensions between different layers of meaning, in which these opposing forces operate.
About
Looped paintings relinquish tranquil scenery, instead enveloping the audience into a restless, endless cycle.
Tabata's monochromatic drawings in "72 colour (Birds)" present a constant renegotiation of this condition. Rendering the subject through a spectrum of coloured graphite, each frame takes on its own textural quality. Black is the reference point – other colours require details to be added or subtracted. The act of repeated drawing represents an ongoing enquiry between observation and materials. Sequencing into film reveals the nuanced variations of the process – a narrative of connected spaces between the physical phenomena and their representation on paper.
