Mika Kasai “I painted a huge picture today.”

11/16 (Sat)-12/14 (Sat), 2024
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Mika Kasai (1989-) just graduated from Tokyo University of the Arts 2 years ago. She is also going to attend University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria next year.

Kasai's main works are a collage using acrylic and some paper materials. She uses waste paper materials which she used in her daily life such as tissue boxes or cardboard boxes of Amazon and materials easily available at home center and art supply stores.She gathers these paper materials in large quantities in her studio and she cuts them into various sizes and shapes. And then, she paints them with acrylic, and she connects and stacks them.The unique colors and combinations of shapes of her works are never get tired of viewing them.

A common thread in all Kasai's works is her unique perspective of "looking at things from a bird's-eye view”.As one of the references, she uses snapshots taken from her own unique perspective, which she continues to work as her lifework, as well as photographs of old Japanese paintings such as picture scroll called “Emaki” and Nara picture book called “Nara Ehon”.

As she says, "It's not a specific person or object, a story or a specific ideas and principles, but something else.”, her works do not have a specific motif or a unique object, but rather the space or the situation surrounding a certain thing, or the state of the surroundings which is what she calls "something else".