Kohei Nawa Overview

Kohei Nawa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1975. He graduated from the kyoto city university of art, ph.d. specializing in fine art, sculpture where he now resides. Known for his ideas of 'skin' and 'cells'. he is known for his... [more]

Kohei Nawa was born in Osaka, Japan in 1975. He graduated from the kyoto city university of art, ph.d. specializing in fine art, sculpture where he now resides. Known for his ideas of 'skin' and 'cells'. he is known for his pixcell series, the 'skins' of objects such as taxidermied animals, sneakers, musical instruments, toys and fake fruit taking on new phases. Countless transparent glass beads encase these objects, forming a new interface between these things and us. The glass beads are 'cells' that skew our tactile memories and conventional visual notions we have of these objects. [show less]