Trace & Fix 大槻英世
TATSURO KISHIMOTO•Nov 29, 2025 — Dec 27, 2025
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The painter Piet Mondrian once produced studies in which he experimented with various compositions by physically applying strips of paper tape directly onto the canvas (New York City I, 1941). In the final work completed on the basis of those studies (New York City, 1942), the paper tape was replaced with colorful painted stripes, and the physical materiality—such as the actual thickness of the tape—disappeared entirely.
In contrast, Hideyo Ohtsuki’s paintings faithfully reproduce the materiality of masking tape through painted imitation: the thickness, the peeling edges, and the texture are recreated as if the tape were truly there. In this respect, Ohtsuki’s direction can be said to be the complete opposite of Mondrian’s.
Paint that has become almost indistinguishable from masking tape does not seem to be painted on the canvas, but rather affixed to it as a physical substance, just like real tape. Moreover, the overlapping of tape strips an…
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Trace & Fix 大槻英世
TATSURO KISHIMOTO•Nov 29, 2025 — Dec 27, 2025
Press Release
The painter Piet Mondrian once produced studies in which he experimented with various compositions by physically applying strips of paper tape directly onto the canvas (New York City I, 1941). In the final work completed on the basis of those studies (New York City, 1942), the paper tape was replaced with colorful painted stripes, and the physical materiality—such as the actual thickness of the tape—disappeared entirely.
In contrast, Hideyo Ohtsuki’s paintings faithfully reproduce the materiality of masking tape through painted imitation: the thickness, the peeling edges, and the texture are recreated as if the tape were truly there. In this respect, Ohtsuki’s direction can be said to be the complete opposite of Mondrian’s.
Paint that has become almost indistinguishable from masking tape does not seem to be painted on the canvas, but rather affixed to it as a physical substance, just like real tape. Moreover, the overlapping of tape strips an…
