Kurs: Metropolitan Museum of Art > Rozdział 1
Lekcja 12: Przekształcenia- Nawa, PixCell-Deer#24
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Nawa, PixCell-Deer#24
Met curator John Carpenter on perception in Kohei Nawa’s PixCell-Deer#24, 2011.
This taxidermied deer has been completely transformed through the artist’s use of variably sized “PixCell” beads, a term he invented. PixCell is a portmanteau word combining the idea of a “cell” with that of a “pixel,” the smallest unit of a digital image. Whether intentionally or unintentionally on the artist’s part, PixCell-Deer#24 resonates with a type of religious painting known as a Kasuga Deer Mandala, which features a deer—the messenger animal of Shinto deities—posed similarly with its head turned to the side, and with a round sacred mirror on its back. For Japanese artists the deer was depicted often as a companion of ancient sages and had auspicious or poetic associations.
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