MASATO TAKASAKA

MASATO TAKASAKA
Fiona and Sidney Myer Gallery
27 June – 10 August 2024

ALMOST ALMOST EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES ((IN FOUR PARTS…V) FROM PICASSO TO MASATO…) RETURNAL RETURN REDUX *works from the permanent collection and selected loans from the EVERYTHING ALWAYS ALREADY-MADE STUDIO MASATOTECTURES MUSEUM OF FOUND REFRACTIONS (1994-2024)

In his characteristically multi-part title for this survey (not survey) exhibition, Masato Takasaka inserts himself into the high canon of esteemed modernist masters, proposing for his art a direct line from Picasso, the formidable founder of Cubism—a claim only partly tongue-in-cheek. And why not embrace his audacity? After all, it’s easy to recognise a distinctly ‘post-cubist’ spirit—a collapsing of time and space— in Takasaka’s chaotically ordered display, and in his exhibition title too, which seems to imply cubistic simultaneity. ALMOST ALMOST EVERYTHING co-exists ALL AT ONCE, and from multiple perspectives TWICE, THREE TIMES. And let’s not forget the guitar, the classic cubist motif, which Takasaka updates through his obsession in his work with electric guitars, revisiting his adolescent history as a bedroom guitarist and aspiring thrash rock musician.

— from the essay Why not ‘from Picasso to Masato’? by Sue Cramer

 

 

 

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