Izumi Kato participates in 'Actual Fractals, Act II'
Actual Fractals, Act II brings together the work of a broad range of contemporary sculptors. Publicly displayed around downtown Milwaukee, the works invite visitors to engage with the interconnections of human beings, nature, animals, and cosmopolitan communities, despite our perceived differences and divisions.
Kato's work is a large figurative sculpture, crafted in aluminium and fashioned to replicate Kato’s previous sculptures in stone. The figure is split into four stone-like parts, balanced on top of each other. The face and body are painted onto the aluminium planes in Kato’s distinctive style, with large globular eyes staring directly out at the viewer, and limbs without hands or feet. Embodying a primal and universal visual form, Kato encourages viewers to arrive at their own ideas about his compositions rather than assigning a predetermined meaning.
Curator and Artist John Riepenhoff comments: "The exhibition features artworks in a range of mediums that can rescale our expectations of contemporary sculpture. They also help us to see what we share by existing in the same time and place—and to see each other with delight and renewed empathy.”
Kato is featured alongside Isamu Noguchi, Erika Verzutti, Nicole Miller, Pao Houa Her, Lars Fisk and Katy Cowan.
