Seeing by Japanese artist Akira Komoto is a series of interventions into the landscape, featuring photographs of hand-painted rustic constructions that simultaneously obscure and reveal the horizon. As much earthworks as images, Komoto’s project condenses the spectral ranges and perspectives of photography to create a hallucinatory melding of figure and ground. Komoto’s work has been shown in numerous venues in Japan and internationally, and was the subject of a major touring show organized by the MacLaren Art Centre in 1994. Komoto passed away in Japan in 2017.
Seeing
Akira Komoto
Seeing by Japanese artist Akira Komoto is a series of interventions into the landscape, featuring photographs of hand-painted rustic constructions that simultaneously obscure and reveal the horizon. As much earthworks as images, Komoto’s project condenses the spectral ranges and perspectives of photography to create a hallucinatory melding of figure and ground. Komoto’s work has been shown in numerous venues in Japan and internationally, and was the subject of a major touring show organized by the MacLaren Art Centre in 1994. Komoto passed away in Japan in 2017.
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