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礒谷権太郎

1975
Born in Tottori
1998
Kanazawa College of Art, B.A. Fine Art course, Sculpture
2000
Kanazawa College of Art, M.A. Fine Art course, Sculpture

Solo Exhibition

2009
"Darkness Watchers", frantic close up project, Blinc Vase Spectacles Shop, Tokyo
2009
"Keep Smiling! God Loves Idiots! The figures of critical grin in the art of Kentaro Isotani", art project frantic, Tokyo
2008
"Instant Dogma", Gallery KINGYO, Sendagi, Tokyo
2005
"Transvestites", Gallery KINGYO, Sendagi, Tokyo
2005
"Kentaro Isotani Exhibition", Kishimojin Temple, Zoshigaya, Tokyo

Group Exhibition

2010
"2010 FRANTIC UNDERLINES", Frantic Gallery, Tokyo
2009
"Let's Pink !" FARM by hiromiyoshii, Tokyo
2009
"My favorite things", art project frantic & unseal, Tokyo
2009
"The Trash" Exhibition, 101 Tokyo Contemporary Art Fair, Akiba Square, Tokyo
2008
"MR1109", NO NAME, Tokyo
2008
"Kingyo of KINGO", Gallery KINGYO, Tokyo
2008  
"Hatsudai Noise Festival", Tokyo
2006
"Toy Box Vol.3", Otuka RED-ZONE (Live House), Otuka, Tokyo
2005
"Seven Sculptors", Gallery 52, Iidabashi, Tokyo
2004
"Kin-no-Bi, Gin-no-za", Ono Gallery, Kyobashi, Tokyo
2002
"Size of The World", Yamawaki Gallery, Ichigaya, Tokyo
2000
"Kawaguchi Art Club", LILIA gallery, Kawaguchi, Saitama

introduction

If there is a true Japanese Punk Spirit, which doesn’t limit itself to fashion and music, Kentaro Isotani is one of its embodiments. In his artistic role he is a “bastard”, he is a “skunk”, he is a “piece of shit”. People see him with a bottle of whiskey at art fairs and with various types of gun models at gallery talks. The exhibition space, of his solo work, in the end usually looks like a garbage-recycling plant: accumulations of plastic Pepsi-Cola bottles, empty alcohol packaging, pieces of torn clothing or textile, and of course, the unavoidable mud. All of these are actually basic working material for this sculptor and will probably be eventually used for creating works for his next solo show.

To prepare for the “Instant Dogma” Exhibition in 2008 Isotani researched the immediate feeling of barbaric man, who encounters a marvelous sculpture of a saint in a church. His experiment was to give violent Form to The Sublime, to project The Wild Sensuality into a Delicate Expression, to mix Rustic Spirit with Elevated Sentiment.

At the “Keep Smiling! God Loves Idiots!” Exhibition the world saw Isotani’s “White Ladies”: the totemistic pair of his Saints. They are Isotani’s “Junky Ladies”, “Seductive Bitches” literally filled with trash: guns, truck models, scissors, dangerous razors and other instruments for castration. “White Ladies” are Slut-Goddesses: they provoke for restricted, they push to transgression. Istani’s sculptures enchant onlookers. They incite us to interrupt the usual course of affairs, they push us to something bad: to shout out profanities, to have a “dirty mouth”, to show the middle finger to somebody or to spank somebody at the exhibition hall.

White Lady (cake / no more home paty)
2009
mixed media
74x36x24
KI_09001
available
Smiling fats (They gave you 1000 Angels)
2009
mixed media
64x34x15
KI_09002
available
Panes man (welcome to opportunities)
2009
mixed media
76x35x35
KI_09003
available
Fancy Lady (lingeries / order amazing delisious)
2009
mixed media
117x62x27
KI_09004
available
Mud Lady (razor / faces the hardest)
2009
mixed media
45x23x10
KI_09005
available
White Lady #4 (magazines / go to the party)
2009
mixed media
96x45x30
KI_09006
available
White Lady #5 (guns / the best moment)
2009
mixed media
53x32x25
KI_09007
available
White Lady #8 (knifes / You start to believe)
2009
mixed media
68x33x13
KI_09008
available
White Lady #9 (scissors / favourite things)
2009
mixed media
83x34x17
KI_09009
available
Around the Globe (Keep Smiling! God Loves Idiots!)
2008
mixed media
115x65x20
KI_08001
available
Gold Fish (Rage Against the Man.)
2008
mixed media
63x42x30
KI_08002
available
Comet sisters
2008
mixed media
50x20x10 each
KI_08003
available
Chalk Smiles (Bogus Deals)
2008
mixed media
50x27x30
KI_08004
available
Chalk smiles (Rogue Advisers)
2008
mixed media
50x27x30
KI_08005
available
St.S (NE)
2008
mixed media
48x30x18
KI_08006
available
St.T (no words)
2008
mixed media
48x30x18
KI_08007
available
St.W (Rotation)
2008
mixed media
48x30x18
KI_08008
available
St.G.H.I.J.K (white saint)
2008
mixed media
65x36x27each
KI_08009
available
St.Q (knight)
2008
mixed media
72x51x27
KI_08010
available
St.O (vinile bag)
2008
mixed media
45x30x30
KI_08011
available
St.P (With long textile)
2008
mixed media
48x28x25
KI_08012
available
St.A (Even better than the real thing.)
2008
mixed media
145x70x80
KI_08013
available
St.B (Hellow Wherever!)
2008
mixed media
145x70x80
KI_08014
available
Untitled (whit head)
2008
mixed media
70x50x55
KI_08015
private collection, Taiwan
Untitled (black head)
2008
mixed media
70x50x55
KI_08016
private collection, Taiwan
White Lady (wet! wet! wet!)
2009
mixed media
63x28x20
KI_09010
private collection, Japan
White Lady (My Mind )
2009
mixed media
76x40x18
KI_09011
private collection U.S.A
St.D
2008
mixed media
52x26x26
KI_08017
private collection U.S.A
St.E
2008
mixed media
52x26x26
KI_08018
private collection U.S.A
S.F
2008
mixed media
52x26x26
KI_08019
private collection U.S.A
Keep Smiling! Exhibition Catalogue
The Figures of Grin in Art of Kentaro Isotani
Catalog Download