Kenjiro Okazaki, ‘Aimlessly navigating the canals, he would sometimes leap onto small islands overgrown with reeds, cheering up lonely bulls with his whistles. He'd pick berries from thorny bushes, poke at rabbit burrows to startle the young ones, and giggle at coots dozing on the water's surface. His feet were always muddy and cheerfully wet’, 2024. © Kenjiro Okazaki, courtesy Pace Gallery.
Pace will present Kenjiro Okazaki’s first-ever solo exhibition in the UK at its London gallery from June 5 to August 8. Titled Never could be any other way — anagnorisis, the presentation brings together sculptures, large-scale paintings, and a selection of the artist’s delicately framed Zero Thumbnail series. Okazaki is an acclaimed artist, architect, and theorist whose multifarious practice spans painting, sculpture, robotics, costume and set design, and architecture. One of Japan’s leading contemporary artists, he examines the relationship between temporality and human perception. Central to his practice is the concept of zōkei (plastic arts): the making of form from...
