Post-Fair: Paris

Nonaka-Hill is pleased to participate in POST-FAIR PARIS with works by Sawako Goda and Kentaro Kawabata. POST-FAIR opens on Monday, October 19th and is located at 74 / 79 Rue de Temple in the Marais.

Sawako Goda's paintings of Hollywood femme fatales, will be accompanied by Xerox works she created during a performance organized by Fuji Xerox at the Sony Building in Ginza in 1970. Raw fish, squid and skulls were placed directly on the copy machine and adorned with faux haute joaillerie arranged with prosthetic eyes, hair combs and metal mesh. A fish gripping a glass eye, a horse’s skull entwined with chains, a squid paired with rings—the combinations are at once grotesque and opulent, encapsulating Goda’s unique and surreal poetic conflation of postwar ruin and Baroque fantasy.

Kentaro Kawabata’s variations on the Spoon form evoke musical instruments and/or anatomical forms. Hand-formed in porcelain, these imperfectly symmetrical works incorporate pulverized jewel-toned glass, crushed Sprite bottles, oxblood glazes, feldspar, sand, silver, and metallic slag, with surfaces crenellated by nimble flourishes of platinum gilding. Marbled colors ripple across the porcelain like pigments deliberately left unmixed, conjuring a raw, exuberant reinterpretation of Baroque fantasy. Kawabata’s ornamental virtuosity heightens the visceral immediacy of his sculpture.