Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) presents Teppei Kaneuji: Towering Something an exhibition on view 28 June–25 August 2013.
In Teppei Kaneuji: Towering Something, the artist (b. 1978, Kyoto) gathers icons of modern culture and everyday objects—hula hoops, shopping carts, plastic dinosaurs, Doraemon—and assembles them into sculptural and cut-paper collages, resulting in Frankenstein sculptures that explore a separation of purpose and form. White discharge, or plastic resin, is poured over the mass of objects and then drips down to cover some pieces entirely, harden into stalactites, and pool on the ground. By connecting lines, turning shapes inside out, and flip-flopping roles of “inner” and “outer,” Kaneuji’s work smothers the projected meanings of symbol-object relationships, and explores the possibility of interacting with materials in ways other than those preordained by the social and economic values usually assigned to them.
Teppei Kaneuji describes the effect he hopes to engender with his art as “a sense of encountering things that seem familiar but that we do not really understand.” In addition to presenting pieces from Kaneuji’s signature White Discharge series—work inspired by the leveling effect a blanket of snow had on a Mercedes Benz and adjacent pile of dog excrement—this exhibition also includes the Games, Dance & the Constructions and Ghost Building series, with featured works made from manga cutouts, photographs, mirrors, and the skeletal frames of children’s sticker sheets.
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