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2005 11-12 Ken Kagami 2006 02-03 Naoko Tamura 2006 03-04 Jon Widman 2006 05-06 Brian Fahlstrom 2006 08 Dean Sameshima 2006 09 11-12 Keita Suzuki 2006 10-11 Banks Violette / Gardar Eide Einarsson 2007 01-02 Annette Kelm /
Mark Roeder 2007 03-04 Gentaro Ishizuka 2007 06 Takeshi Murata 2007 09-10 Shinpei Kusanagi 2008 01-03 Mario Garcia Torres 2008 04-05 Kyoko Ishikawa 2008 05-06 Violet Hopkins

Takeshi Murata "Damage Control"

June 1-30, 2007

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To make representation that is familiar and understood and abstract simultaneously.
– Takeshi Murata

Gallery.sora. is pleased to announce our first exhibition with New York based artist Takeshi Murata. Murata has participated in numerous international gallery and museum exhibitions; recent and upcoming exhibitions include a solo project with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, and participation in Automatic Update, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Silence. Listen to the Show, Fondazione Sandretto Re Redaudengo, Torino, Italy and the Matthew Higgs curated exhibition Redeconstruction, Gladstone Gallery, New York.

Takeshi Murata's film works arrive following the success of a young generation of US-based artists, primarily based in New York, known for their appropriation and reconsideration of the psychedelic. Murata’s work; however, is uniquely contemporary in its formal reconstruction of filmic imagery. Utilizing both found and self-generated footage, Murata exploits the potential of pixel as pigment while investigating narrative space. The present exhibition includes a new single-channel film work Damage Control produced in collaboration with musicians Robert Beatty and Ellen Mollé