Kohei Nawa

PixCell-Zebra, 2003.
PixCell-Deer#5, 2007.

b.1975 in Osaka, Japan. Graduated from the Kyoto City University of Art, ph.d, specializing in sculpture. Lives and works in Kyoto.
http://www.kohei-nawa.net/

'Following in the footsteps of Mariko Mori, many Japanese artists are questioning the frontier between vision and perception by creating a delicate dream world. Kohei Nawa (Osaka, 1975), with his drawings, sculptures and installations, plays with the perception of the world and invents objects imbued with a strange poetry. Projecting images on water, covering articles with glass beads, invading the space with gigantic molecular forms, he transforms the original state of an image, an object or a space. Kohei Nawa transcends banality and transforms something ordinary into something exceptional, metamorphosing bits of junk, a cigarette end, a piece of fruit or a stuffed animal into extraordinary, precious objects. He often buys the most outrageous articles on the Internet, and then covers them in transparent glass beads to give them a new skin. Catching the light, these beads create a magical vibrancy around the pieces.'—Fundacio Miro.