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Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1981, and lives and works in Paris. Keita Mori realizes his drawings using a special technique which he has developed since 2011: the taut wires with a glue gun. He thus creates spaces, through accumulation and entanglement of wires: objects, systems in which the cracks – or « bug » the way he calls them – reveal themselves from the fragmented spaces, in motion, as provisional.
Education
- 2004
- Tama University of Art, Tokyo, BA Fine Art (sculpture: mixt media), under prof. Atsuo Ishii, Akira Tatehata
- 2006-2007
- ENSBA-École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, under prof. Jacky Chriqui, Christian Boltanski
- 2011
- University of Paris VIII, Saint-Denis (FR), MA Fine Art (new media), under prof. Philippe NYS
Solo Exhibitions
- 2022-2023
- "⏦" 3331 GALLERY, Tokyo, Japan
- 2021
- “Kasetsu no kasetsu”Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris
- 2020
- "Bug report" rin art association, Gunma, Japan
- 2019
- "Struction, en effet" 1F - Irrésistible Fraternité, Limoges, France
- "Bug report" La Factorine, Nancy, France
- 2018
- "Art On Paper" Brussels Contemporary Drawing Fair Galerie Catherine Putman, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgiem
- "Les nuages sans ciel" 2angles, Flers, France
- "Scrolling" POLLEN, Monflanquin, France
- 2017
- "Template" Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris
- "Strings" Drawing Lab, Paris
- "Tisser des préhistoires futures" Site Saint-Sauveur, Rocheserviére, France
- 2016
- "Bug report" ICONOSCOPE, Montpellier, France
- 2015
- "Hyper-Espaces" Musée Bernard Boesch, La Baule, France
Group Exhibitions
- 2022
- "ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE", Centre d'Art Nei Liicht, Luxembourg
- 2021
- "Oku-Noto Triennale 2020+",Suzu ,Ishikawa ,Japan
- 2020
- "The Potentiality of Drawing" Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo
- "Constellation "01" rin art association, Gunma, Japan
- "CRAC 2020" Maison des arts plastiques, Champigny-sur-Marne, France
- "Midtown Street Museum" TOKYO MIDTOWN, Tokyo
- 2019
- "Asia Now" Galerie Catherine Putman, with Takesada Matsutani, 9 Avenue Hoche, Paris, France
- "The Projective Drawing" Drawing Lab, Paris
- "Dissect the Society" Musée des beaux-arts de Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan
- "Rokko Meets Art 2019" Mt.Rokko National Park, Kobe, Japan
- "TOKYO MIDTOWN AWARD 2019" TOKYO MIDTOWN, Tokyo
- "Mechanical Sensations" Roppongi hills A/D GALLERY, Tokkyo
- "Sapporo ekimae street award" Terrace keikaku, Sapporo, Japan
- "Les Jardins du Design 2019" ECAM Lyon, Lyon, France
- 2018
- "DRAWING NOW PARIS" Contemporary Drawing Fair, Galerie Catherine Putman, Carreau du Temple, Paris
- "(MO)TION" Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan
- "Suites résidentielles" Artothèque Espaces d'art contemporain Caen, Caen, France
- "Domani - Memories of passagers" The National Art Center, Tokyo
- "Itinéraires Graphiques du Pays de Lorient" La Rotonde, Lanester, France
- "Weniger ist mehr – less is more" Galerie du CROUS, Paris
- "Paper works" ex-chamber museum, Tokyo
- "ART PROTECTS 2018" AIDES & Yvon Lambert, Yvon Lambert Bookshop, Paris
- "Dessiner aujourd'hui" Maison des Arts Plastiques Rosa Bonheur, Chevilly-Larue, France
- "15AN DE 2ANGLES" 2angles, Flers, France
- "RÉCITS DE SQUARES" Le 87, Paris
- "Nuit Blanche des Enfants" Mairie du 18e, Paris
- "Nouvelles acquisitions de L'artothéque : Prêt á décrocher" Artothèque Quest Provence, Miramas, France
- "Le dessin contemporain" Galerie SENS INTERIEUR, Cogolin, France
- 2017
- "GALERISTES - Galerie Catherine Putman" Carreau de Temple, Paris
- "Le dessin, autrement" GALERIE DE L'ETRAVE Thonon-les-Bains, France
- "Réalitiés invisibles" STATION, Paris
- "NOUS N'AURONS DE CESSE D'EXPLORER" Double V Gallery, Marseille, France
- "La dimension de la maquette" Fonderie Kugler, Genève, Switzerland
- "DRAWING NOW PARIS" Galarie Catherine Putman, Carreau de Temple, Paris
- 2016
- "PARÉIDOLIE" International Contemporary Drawing Fair, Galerie Catherine Putman, Chateau de Servières, Marseille, France
- "SALON DE MONTROUGE" Le Beffroi, Montrouge, France
- "DRAWING NOW PARIS" Contemporary Drawing Fair, Galarie Catherine Putman, Carreau de Temple, Paris
- "Drawing room 016" Contemporary Drawing Fair, ICONOSCOPE, Galerie Anne-Sarah Bénichon, La Panacée - Centre d’art contemporain, Montpellier, France
- "In correspondence with the drawing" Michael Fuchs galerie, Berlin
- "Ftnss.show" Akibatamabi21, Tokyo
- "Art is Hope" LINK for AIDES: collaboration with Comité professionnel des galeries d’art (CPGA), Galerie Perrotin, Paris
- "EXPOSITION DE GROUPE" Galerie Duboys, Paris
- "La main qui dessinait toute seule" Galerie Magda Danysz, Paris
- "PARCOURS DE l'ART" Cloitre St Louis, Avignon, France
- 2015
- "Walk The Line -New Paths in Drawing" Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
- "FID PRIZE 2015" Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris
- "METHACITY" Galerie Dominique fiat, Paris
- "NUIT BLANCHE" PARCOURS NORD-EST/OFF, Paris
- "Serendipity -80 x 80" Galerie Laure Roynette, Paris
- "In Tension" LAGE EGAL, Berlin, Germany
- "Jardins Synthetiques" Musée Saint-Raymond, Toulouse, France
- 2014
- "VOYAGEURS" La villa Emerige, Paris
- "GOLEM" Fondation suisse / Pavillon Le Corbusier, Paris
- "JAPON" Centre d'art contemporain(C.A.C), Meymac, France
- "FID PRIZE 2014" The Drawing Box, Tournai, Belgium
- 「Réels Imaginaires, Galerie Richard, Paris
- 2013
- "Lauréats du FID PRIZE 2012" Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris
Awards
- 2019
- "DRAC Île-de-France grant in 2019"
- 2017
- "Prix Matsutani" Paris
- 2016
- "Prix Galeries Lafayette" Drawing room 016, Contemporary Drawing Fair, Montpellier, France
- 2015
- Nominated "PRIX Découverte - Palais de Tokyo" par Les Amis du Palais de Tokyo& le Tokyo Art Club, France
- 2014
- Nominated "Emerige Revelations Grant 2014" Paris
- 2013
- Nominated"PRIX de la jeune création à Saint Rémy" Aveyron, France
- 2012
- Prize-winner of "FID PRIZE 2012" - Internationale drawing competition, GRAND PRIX ex aequo: Andrea Ciobica, Juliette Mogenet", Paris
Selected Collection
- «1 immeuble, 1 œuvre» - French Ministry for Culture and Emerige endowment fund, Massy, France
- Artothèque Ouest Provence, Miramas, France
- FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, Bordeaux, France
- FRAC PACA, Marseille, France
- FRAC Artothèque Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Limoges, France
- Artothèque Chiroux - Province de Liège, Belgium