KAZU NAKAGAWA | artificial landscape

Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland

10 APRIL — 15 MAY, 2021

Half-charred native totara, casualties from a burnt neighbouring property, have been meticulously planed and carved by Kazu Nakagawa. Each carefully sculpted into homogenous conical forms, expressing an organic materiality constrained within a formal vocabulary of both presentation and structure. It was interesting to see how the charring had infused its smokey patina within the inner striations of the timber.  I enjoyed the correlations and variations between each piece and the impact achieved by displaying multiple iterations across a single plane.