“TOPICA PICTUS” is a project that compiles approximately 150 works from the Zero Thumbnail series that Kenjiro Okazaki created during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. We visited “TOPICA PICTUS Tennoz,” which was also held in August.
Installation view
Among the works from the Zero Thumbnail series, this exhibition included one of the largest, a set of ten pieces.
Kenjiro Okazaki, “a. Fragments of Time / The opinion of Hermes and other philosophers who say that in any metal there are several forms,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 16.3 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 1/10Kenjiro Okazaki, “ru. Buried in the mangrove (rouge) / The everything that does not evaporate in the fire stone, and this they call ‘body’ and ‘substance’,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, (H)20.2 x (W)14.3 x (D)3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 2/10Kenjiro Okazaki, “be. Be’er Yada, God knows / The efficient cause and the production of metals in general,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 16.3 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 3/10Kenjiro Okazaki, “ru. The noble wanderer / What evaporates in a fire (which impact to stones as various colors) are called spirit, soul, or ‘accidentals’,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16.3 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 4/10to. Slash-and-burn / Whether one form of metal can be transmuted into another, as the alchemists say,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16.5 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 5/10Kenjiro Okazaki, “su. Emerald splendor (suika) formed by water / The essential form of metals,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 19.7 x 16.2 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 6/10Kenjiro Okazaki, “ma. Mica formed by fire / The opinions of the ancients about the material of metals,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 19.2 x 16.5 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 7/10*DetailKenjiro Okazaki, “gu. Beginning with Guten Abend / The opinion of Callisthenes, who postulated only one form of metal,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 14.3 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 8/10*DetailKenjiro Okazaki, “nu. Noumenon and Phenomenon / Why stone is not malleable and fusible like metals,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 18 x 16.7 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 9/10Kenjiro Okazaki, “su. As if a water-god emerging / The place where metals are produced,” 2015-2020, Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 14.3 x 3.0 cm, Set of 10, From left to right: 10/10*DetailKenjiro Okazaki, “Notre liberté et la liberté de Dieu / A lady’s smile,” Acrylic on canvas, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 25.7 x 18.2 x 3.0 cmKenjiro Okazaki, “Crumbling to pieces / Wrath of Jupiter,” Acrylic on canvas, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 25.4 x 18.2 x 3.0 cmKenjiro Okazaki, “Celestina listening to the music / A well at the bottom of the deep sea,” Acrylic on canvas, 2020, Acrylic on canvas, 18.5 x 25. x 3.0 cm
