The Frist Art Museum presents Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, a sweeping survey of paintings from around the world that invite contemplation of seemingly ungraspable forces .
About This Lot
Contemporary Japanese artist Kazuki Umezawa creates complex collages from found digital material. The chaotic array of images, occasionally layered with paint, presents a bombardment of visual information densely packed into a single frame. The artist deconstructs the specificity of original images and recontextualizes them to create drastically new forms and shapes. Born in 1985 in Saitama in Japan, Umezawa was raised in an artistic family. Determined to be an artist at an early age, Umezawa entered a special art track in high school. He attended Musashino Art University in Japan from 2005 to 2008, a time marked in Japanese popular culture for the dramatic expansion of the internet. The development of anonymous and online creative spaces inspired the artist’s style of endless appropriation, collage, and combinations of analog and digital processes. In 2009, Umezawa joined the collective Chaos Lounge, which was started by the artist Uso Fujishiro. The group aimed to
About This Lot
Contemporary Japanese artist Kazuki Umezawa creates complex collages from found digital material. The chaotic array of images, occasionally layered with paint, presents a bombardment of visual information densely packed into a single frame. The artist deconstructs the specificity of original images and recontextualizes them to create drastically new forms and shapes. Born in 1985 in Saitama in Japan, Umezawa was raised in an artistic family. Determined to be an artist at an early age, Umezawa entered a special art track in high school. He attended Musashino Art University in Japan from 2005 to 2008, a time marked in Japanese popular culture for the dramatic expansion of the internet. The development of anonymous and online creative spaces inspired the artist’s style of endless appropriation, collage, and combinations of analog and digital processes. In 2009, Umezawa joined the collective Chaos Lounge, which was started by the artist Uso Fujishiro. The group aimed to