The vivid five coloured threads are extracted from the classic coloured fabric. This traditional patterned fabric is woven with only these five colours plus white. It can be said that this work shows the painting structure as painters start painting with only primary colours.
Extracting Warp Threads – Five colours
2004
Warp threads extracted from readymade fabric
180 x 420 cm (installation size), 70 cm diameter per panel
Exhibited at
2004 Outside of Modernism, ARTCOURT Gallery, Osaka, Japan (2004)
2007 Thin Film, Underground Forest, SPIRAL/Wacoal Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan
2008 MOT annual 2008, Unraveling and Revealing, Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
2009 City_net Asia, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2013 Embracing the land: reframing textiles, Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art KINARE, Niigata, Japan
2014 Mr. I Prize winner exhibition, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Collection
Collection of the Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
Kazuo Fukunaga