A work of Koji Kamoji, photo: press materials
The exhibition presents Kamoji's works from several series, including "Small Images - Vessel May Be Simple", "Templates and Infinity," "Colors and I," "Projects of the Garden" and the title installation "The Monk." The show is accompanied by a sound composition by Małgorzata Sady
Carefully selecting the material for his works, Koji Kamoji developed over the years a whole catalogue of favorite themes and motifs adding up to a very personal imaginarium. It is comprised of simple sign-symbols (like a line, a point, or a circle), "poor" objects taken from everyday life (like stones) and elements of nature (especially water). It was, however, the space that over the time, has become the most important tool and the subject of his reflection.
Kamoji speaks not only through traditional easel painting, but also reliefs, and above all installations. His succinct artistic language together with the poetic and reflexive nature of his work may evoke the Japanese art of haiku, typical of Zen Buddhism. Just as with haiku, Kamoji's works combine a perfect artistic design with an important aspect of spiritual, metaphysical and contemplative development.
Kamoji Koji was born in 1935 in Tokyo. He studied at the Musashino Art University and graduated in 1958. After arriving in Poliand in 1959, he continued his education at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts in the class of professor
Artur Nacht-Samborski, receiving his diploma there in 1966.
Interestingly, while still a student at the Academy, Kamoji would paint Expressionist paintings. It was only later that his style began to evolve in the opposite direction, his compositions becoming more ascetic and austere, minimalist in their choice of artistic means, and strongly geometrical.
Opening: March 5, 2011, at 17:00.
Exhibition runs through April 30, 2011.
Galeria appendix2
ul. Białostocka 9
03-741 Warsaw
Source: press release