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| M Kadota |
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I was born in Los Angeles, California in 1951. I am self taught and have lived from my artwork since the early 70's. I have taught art in art schools from time to time.
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My main motivation to create artwork is to find universal languages, searching for common truths that unite rather than separate. I feel that artwork, at its best, mirror society and our interior selves, raise questions, and presents communication and reflection. I try to make my messages human, poetic, inclusive, humorous, accessible and comprehensible to everyone.
I am mainly a conceptual artist who uses both traditional and non-traditional media to explore ideas. The various media I work in are video, painting, photography, installations, performance, movement, music, poetry, kinetic stage sets, sculpture, ceramics and film. I tend to work in series. I explore the concept through the series of work till I exhaust the idea. Usually I move to the next concept and at times return to former concepts with newfound ideas. |
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Fragile
2002 |
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This video explores how fragile life is. The installation includes eggs and the video is of bird bones. It has a reference to 9/11 |
Footprints in the Sand
2002 |
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This installation includes my feet cast and made into shoes. This represents our bodies that wear out after time. The video includes me walking across the screen leaving my footprints and then the ocean washes away my footprints. This explores our deeds that we do during our life time. |
The Glass is Half Full, The Glass is Half Empty
2003 |
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The three glasses of salt water mirrors the tears of salt water falling from my eyes. |
The Wish
2004 |
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The cast of my head has a wish bone on the fore head. The hands are projected from a projector mounted on the ceiling. All music is written by me. |
Interior Landscapes
2008 Mixed media, ash, sand, dirt metal leaf, acrylics and oil paints on canvas 20” x 20” each panel |
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I have always felt that the arts express various ways to communicate. Our words or language seem to be the most common forms of communication. Often it is the way we put together words, to form ideas, beliefs, expressions and descriptions, which make our thoughts understood. I often feel this form of communication is not adequate. With this said, of course there are the poets that paint with words and perhaps take us to new levels of communication.
Words, sentences, paragraphs and books inspired these paintings. Like words of a sentence, the panels don’t form an idea until they are put together. They are meant to be read as a group or a paragraph. Like poetry they can be a vague idea and allow the audience to interpret their own ideas into the pieces.
These new artworks contain ashes from burned prayers. In my studio I have a burning bowl. My usual ritual is to write a prayer or thought and light it on fire from a burning candle and let it burn out in a ceramic bowl that I made for this purpose. The ashes from these burnt prayers are mixed into the paints to create these paintings creating a visual dialogue.
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Conversation is Various Languages
2008 Mixed media, ash, sand, dirt metal leaf, acrylics and oil paints on canvas 10" x 10" each panel |
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I have always felt that the arts express various ways to communicate. Our words or language seem to be the most common forms of communication. Often it is the way we put together words, to form ideas, beliefs, expressions and descriptions, which make our thoughts understood. I often feel this form of communication is not adequate. With this said, of course there are the poets that paint with words and perhaps take us to new levels of communication. Words, sentences, paragraphs and books inspired these paintings. Like words of a sentence, the panels don’t form an idea until they are put together. They are meant to be read as a group or a paragraph. Like poetry they can be a vague idea and allow the audience to interpret their own ideas into the pieces. These new artworks contain ashes from burned prayers. In my studio I have a burning bowl. My usual ritual is to write a prayer or thought and light it on fire from a burning candle and let it burn out in a ceramic bowl that I made for this purpose. The ashes from these burnt prayers are mixed into the paints to create these paintings creating a visual dialogue. |
The Rhythm of Your Words
2008 Mixed media, ash, sand, dirt metal leaf, acrylics and oil paints on canvas 16” x 16” each panel |
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Part of the Visual Dialogue Series |
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| 教育程度与个人自传 |
| Self taught |
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| 未来的展览 |
Today Art Museum in Beijing, China 2008
One man exhibit 2009
Museum het van land Thorn
Thorn, Netherlands
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网站: www.markkadota.com |
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