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Chaco KATO
Artist Statement
Kato completed her arts degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1989. In 1996 she moved to Australia and finished a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. Kato was the recipient of a full French Government scholarship, and has had residencies at the Paris Cite des Arts (19921993) and the Gertrude Contemporary Art Space in Melbourne. She has exhibited in many commercial/public/artist-run spaces since 1990 in Boston, Tokyo, Paris and Melbourne. Kato at present is represented by the Dianne Tanzer Gallery in Melbourne and participates in solo and group shows on a regular basis. Artist statement Katos art always begins in a story that comes out of her personal experience. The theme that she has pursued in her art is the organic cycle of things: transformation, migration, and circulation, or the cycle of life; birth, growth, death, decay and rebirth. As an artist, Kato responds to the reality of our place and time: currently a period of ultra over-consumerism that has created enormous debts for future societies. Most of Katos works are made using natural materials, which highlights her representations of natural elements such as growth and waste. She focuses on work that has a highly ephemeral nature: something which can be constructed on site and taken down after the show, which can be taken apart or folded, which decays or can be recycled. Katos artwork explores childhood, dreams, ecology and politics. The work investigates the visual fusion between the environs of nature and constructed creation, and between diverse cultures. Her art practice explores ways of separating elements from the world and restructuring them, in a way that portrays the simultaneous fragility and strength of life. For her, it is about the unstable relationship between the natural world and humanity. The childlike drawings and awkward lines in Katos works may be, she explains, a manifestation of her desire to evoke her own childhood.
Kato completed her arts degree at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1989. In 1996 she moved to Australia and finished a Master of Fine Arts at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1999. Kato was the recipient of a full French Government scholarship, and has had residencies at the Paris Cite des Arts (19921993) and the Gertrude Contemporary Art Space in Melbourne. She has exhibited in many commercial/public/artist-run spaces since 1990 in Boston, Tokyo, Paris and Melbourne. Kato at present is represented by the Dianne Tanzer Gallery in Melbourne and participates in solo and group shows on a regular basis. Artist statement Katos art always begins in a story that comes out of her personal experience. The theme that she has pursued in her art is the organic cycle of things: transformation, migration, and circulation, or the cycle of life; birth, growth, death, decay and rebirth. As an artist, Kato responds to the reality of our place and time: currently a period of ultra over-consumerism that has created enormous debts for future societies. Most of Katos works are made using natural materials, which highlights her representations of natural elements such as growth and waste. She focuses on work that has a highly ephemeral nature: something which can be constructed on site and taken down after the show, which can be taken apart or folded, which decays or can be recycled. Katos artwork explores childhood, dreams, ecology and politics. The work investigates the visual fusion between the environs of nature and constructed creation, and between diverse cultures. Her art practice explores ways of separating elements from the world and restructuring them, in a way that portrays the simultaneous fragility and strength of life. For her, it is about the unstable relationship between the natural world and humanity. The childlike drawings and awkward lines in Katos works may be, she explains, a manifestation of her desire to evoke her own childhood.
State
Victoria
Victoria
Website
http://www.chacokato.com
http://www.chacokato.com
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