REPEAT [X∞]
Tokyo-based artist Takuji Kogo gave birth to *CANDY FACTORY as a front for his individual work as well as a platform to organize collaborations with (sometimes) regulars such as this blog’s favorite YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES. Kogo usually wears multiple hats, working as a curator/artist in ways that have deserved the label of “an information age version of Andy Warhol's Factory.” Just spend a few minutes exposed to his work and you will find that *CANDY FACTORY stands on its own territory somewhere in between numbers and air.
Infinite repetition seems to be among *CANDY FACTORY’s favorite tools. It is through manipulating this aesthetic element that we end up appreciating the chameleonic form of life itself. The same two seconds are manipulated in a simple, yet disturbingly powerful way to prove that no aesthetic detail should be underestimated.
A recent piece, BOOGIE WOOGIE WONDERLAND 2006 offers an excellent example of the depth of content and meaning that can be achieved via repetition and camera movement. Experience it and you will change your mind many times on whether you like it or not, as you will also change your mind repeatedly on whether it is sexual, funny, festive, cripy, beautiful, interesting, violent, unimportant, childish, serious…
