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...
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 substance. Asserting that our engagement with the universe is as malleable as the materials that constitute it, Okazaki positions zōkei as a practice through which perception and the world itself are brought into relation.
Image Credit: Kenjiro Okazaki, 'Et egredietur virga de radice Iesse, et flos de radice eius ascendet. And for all this, nature is never spent. Generations have trod, have trod, have trod. I got old. Landscape plotted and pieced—Off side of my thought? fold, fallow, and plough.
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. Whatever is fickle, freckled—And still—it blooms. who knows how? The light is calm. We were struck by the sudden appearance of yucca trees
The blossoms are not. Ring-a-ring o’ roses, come again another day. Praise him. The blossoms that remain are falling blossoms. That day, sunset seeing a butterfly fall. Nothing is so beautiful as Spring—when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush.', 2026. © Kenjiro Okazaki, courtesy Pace Gallery.
