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galerie frank elbaz is pleased to announce its participation in Art Collaboration Kyoto (ACK), an art fair held in Kyoto, in collaboration with MAKI Gallery, Tokyo. The presentation features works by Sheila Hicks, Kaz Oshiro, and Mungo Thomson. The three internationally renowned artists use their respective practices to recontextualize everyday objects and phenomena in unexpected ways.

Since the late 1950s, American artist Sheila Hicks has been producing work exceptionally difficult to categorize. Knotting, wrapping, folding, twisting, and stacking wool, linen, and cotton: these are only some of the techniques and materials that have seen her undermine conventional artistic categories and their hierarchical relationships. A pupil of Josef Albers at Yale, Hicks is the heir to both a Modernist spirit—which deems the distinctions between fine art, decoration, and design to be unimportant—and a textile practice that has its roots in pre-Columbian America.

Okinawa-born, Los Angeles-based artist Kaz Oshiro creates meticulous reproductions of mundane objects—sourced from domestic and industrial spaces—with traditional painting materials such as wood, canvas, and acrylic paint. Following the traditions of trompe-l’oeil and the readymade, Oshiro’s works shrewdly subvert expectations and probe an eternal philosophical question—the distinction between reality and art.

Los Angeles-based artist Mungo Thomson is known for a diverse body of conceptual work that challenges institutions and perceptions, often wittily engaging with printed and archival materials such as magazine covers, advertisements, wall calendars, and cardboard delivery boxes. His works astutely yet playfully dissect the anatomy and effects of mass-media, societal roles, and consumerism.

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