Kenzo Onoda majored in acoustic art at art college and then worked for many years as a computer engineer at the telephone company NIT before starting out on his career as a visual arist at the edge of 40. An admirer of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp, Onoda creates his art with the intention of gazing at his own essence. His activities have gathered wide-ranging attention and a large number of his visual art works have been introduced mainly in Europe, beginning with an exhibition at a museum in Dortmund in 2003. Onoda’s work is backed by precise calculation and firm formativeness, and without the slightest hint of ostentation.
Of Onoda’s creations on show at the present exhibition, Twilight is a simple work of art. The three primary colors of light – red, green and blue – are alternately projected onto the surface of the wall from two programmed projectors. The effect resembles a canvas of light in which the human shapes generated by people standing in front of the light source change colorfully.
Shadows and Light is a small image on a USB Monitor standing on a stool in the front space. Based on an imaging principle using the rectangle as its basic pattern, different books of various sizes and proportions multiply and form a pile consisting of many layers, after which they disappear imperceptibly like bubbles. The endless chain of patterns creates an impression reminiscent of a temple.
Cataloque Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art – Stillness into Color: Inframince of Moonlight 2009/2010 (Text modified)