The first Italian institutional solo show of Osaka-born, Berlin-based artist and musician Ryoichi Kurokawa brought a selection of his recent audio-visual projects, installations, sculptures and digital prints to the Galleria Civica di Modena. As a pioneer of generative art, Kurokawa is internationally renowned for fusing digital sound and imaging technologies to create synesthetic environments intended to alter the viewer’s experience of reality. The Arabic word al-jabr, in the title of the exhibition, means the reconstitution of fragmented parts, and is the origin of the mathematical term “algebra.” Apropos of this title, the deconstruction and reconstruction of elements from the natural world through advanced technology is one of the main methodological axes of Kurokawa's artistic production, and this approach was reflected in the works on show.

• Modena
• Italy
• Japan