Kazz Sasaguchi (1962-)
Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1987. After graduating with GA Musashino Art University, Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Architecture in 1987, he has completed a master's course at Chelsea College of Arts, Department of Sculpture in 1999.
Kazz Sasaguchi (b.1962, Tokyo) creates his art by researching real-world data regarding society and places. By compiling this data and visualizing it in unexpected configurations, he presents new ways to examine ‘reality’. He is particularly interested in the analysis and mapping of motions and movements of people and in various areas, which is one of the main themes of his artworks.
Sasaguchi collects things that we usually see in our everyday lives and represents them as an archive of images. They are represented in a variety of ways, such as small sponge balls floating in space, or as a stack of thinly stamped text, or as a negative image of a person's movements.
Sasaguchi's artworks, which materialize the data once stored in a computer into the real world, is very interesting in the ever-increasing computerization of modern society.
1962 Born in Tokyo
1987 BA, Architecture, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1999 MA, Sculpture, Chelsea Collage of Art and Design, London, UK
Solo Exhibition
2000 "possess", Habitat Tottenham Court Road, London, UK
2002 "Art Scholarship 2001, Excellence Prize Judged by Taro Amano", exhibit LIVE, Tokyo
2002 "Hara Documents 8, omokage -in/visible-", Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (cat.)
2003 "HERCULES", rontgenwerke, Tokyo
2007 "white", ZENSHI, Tokyo
2007 "white", IMPULSE, PULSE Miami, Miami, USA
2012 “When you lost in the forest?”, 20202, Tokyo
2012 “un-ei / shadow or ghost”, rontgenwerke AG, Tokyo
2016 “View From Location Zero”, 20202, Tokyo
Group Exhibition
2001 " rx³ ", Rontgen Kunstraum, Tokyo
2003 " 108 ", Ise Cultural Foundation New York Gallery, New York, USA
2004 " Out the Window - Spaces of Distraction ", The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo
2004 " Roppongi Crossing : New Visions in Contemporary Japanese Art 2004 ", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004 " Out the Window - Spaces of Distraction ", The Japan Foundation Forum, Tokyo / Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea
2005 “ PUBLICLY SPEAKING “, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea / Tokyo Wonder Site Shibuya, Tokyo
2006 “ at / @ “, Shiraya Art Space, Tokyo
2006 “ from ON KAWARA to RYAN GANDER", Daiwa Radiator Factory Viewing Room, Hiroshima
2006 “ BEAUTIFUL DREAMER ", Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo
2008 " Nanjing Tiennale ", Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
2009 " Perception and Urban Environments ", Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo, Tokyo
2011 " KABUKICHO ART SITE", Shinjuku Cine. City + Okubo Park, Tokyo
2012 " The Power of Japanese Contemporary Sculpture ", Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 " Obsession Conception Possession ", Gallery Flaur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto
Other Projects
2004-6 " UZUMAKUHIROBA " Land Art project of a park in a mountain site, The park planned to build beside a lake used for power generation under the ground, Minamiaiki
2016 "Winter Stars In The Mid Summer Sky ", Entranse Art Wirk, Ebisu SUBARU Building, Tokyo
Award
2002 "Art Scholarship 2001, Excellence Prize Judged by Taro Amano", Art Brain International Inc, Tokyo
2004 "Roppongi Crossing, The people’s Prize", Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2005 Grantee of “The Pollock-Krasner Foundation”, New York, USA
2006 Good Design Award, Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization, Tokyo
2008 “Yoshinobu Ashihara Prize”, Musashino Art University, Tokyo
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