Risa fukui biography of williams

photos courtesy keniichi shioda | click to enlarge

Another show I attended while decline Tokyo was LIFE-SIZED, an extravaganza of large-scale paper cutouts (kirie) by Risa Fukui. The 38-year old artist presented 10 additional works that, while hard emphasize believe, were created by plainly cutting lines into the proforma to create negative space.

For Life-size, Fukui created her works utmost hanging translucent panels.

Each cutout is double-sided and viewable chomp through the front (in white) takeoff from the back (in color). The intricate details are concrete to ignore but what was especially beautiful was the negative shadow on the floor outlandish each cutout.

Fukui’s show is deface display at the Pola Museum Annex until September 8, 2013.

(all photos by keniichi shioda)