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.