Description from the TRANS series by Kohei Nawa
Exhibited for the first time through this solo exhibition, Nawa’s recent work TRANS has been produced through cutting-edge sculptural technique using computer and scanner. This process involves a 3D scanning of a person or an object, then applying computer graphics to create work using the scanned data. Applying a computer technique called ‘texture mapping’, Nawa would magnify or diminish the 3D data, or repeat the process of smoothing out the surface. In reference to his TRANS series, Nawa expressed that “the completed form of the model with fluid threedimensional surface is like a form that is parallel with this world, or a form which any subject or being can have.”
Exhibited for the first time through this solo exhibition, Nawa’s recent work TRANS has been produced through cutting-edge sculptural technique using computer and scanner. This process involves a 3D scanning of a person or an object, then applying computer graphics to create work using the scanned data. Applying a computer technique called ‘texture mapping’, Nawa would magnify or diminish the 3D data, or repeat the process of smoothing out the surface. In reference to his TRANS series, Nawa expressed that “the completed form of the model with fluid threedimensional surface is like a form that is parallel with this world, or a form which any subject or being can have.”
Artist: Kohei Nawa