statement
My work primarily deals with notions of space in contemporary architectural landscape. Having lived and worked in contrasting cultural environments in Asia, Europe and North America has nurtured my sense of critical awareness about my surrounding environments. In our present cultural landscape, spaces that are private, public, real and virtual all dissolve into a seemingly unfamiliar territory where complex layers of meanings, associations, and even ideologies contest and blur. I am essentially interested in investigating how and where these different notions of space meet and converge.
In my recent work, I attempt to create a model-like architectural object and structure of familiar, contemporary industrial landscapes. My work explores the fragile nature of our system and infrastructure that is often idealized. The work exists in the liminal state between “fragility” and “permanency”. Through manipulation and transformation of material and form, one’s perception oscillates between the “real” and the “fabricated”. In the state of transience and ambiguity, there is a sense of ephemeral beauty and unimaginable possibility that I seek to explore.
In my recent work, I attempt to create a model-like architectural object and structure of familiar, contemporary industrial landscapes. My work explores the fragile nature of our system and infrastructure that is often idealized. The work exists in the liminal state between “fragility” and “permanency”. Through manipulation and transformation of material and form, one’s perception oscillates between the “real” and the “fabricated”. In the state of transience and ambiguity, there is a sense of ephemeral beauty and unimaginable possibility that I seek to explore.
bio
A native of Tokyo, Japan, Yuichiro Komatsu attended Parsons The New School of Design in New York and received his B.F.A from State University of New York at New Paltz and his M.F.A from Alfred University. He also has been granted a DAAD Postgraduate Research Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Studies in Art, Architecture and Public Sphere at Kunsthocshule Berlin-Weissensee and Universität der Künste in Berlin, Germany. He has previously taught at Queens College (the City University of New York), Emily Carr University of Art + Design (Vancouver, Canada) and the Alberta College of Art & Design (Calgary, Canada). Currently, Komatsu is an Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Columbus State University. He has been granted residencies at European Ceramic Work Centre in the Netherlands and Banff Centre in Canada. His work has been exhibited internationally at such venues as The Jingdezhen Contemporary International Ceramics Exhibition (Jiangxi, China), Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery (Waterloo, Ontario), Illingworth Kerr Gallery (Calgary, Alberta), and Berliner Kunst Project (Berlin, Germany).
