Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on October 2012

One of the most influential Japanese artists of the ’90s is reevaluated in a new exhibition. Hideki Nakazawa established a movement in contemporary Japanese art that he called “Methodicism.” Influenced by systemic painting and conceptual art of the ’60s and ’70s, Nakazawa used pixels and typography to explore the connection between structures, mathematics, digital technology and graphics. On show is Essay on Invisible Functions from 1996, which grew out of his fascination with the relation between text, sound, and graphics, as well as two of his Letter-Coordinate paintings, which strip Japanese kanji of linguistic and phonetic value.

The Container (inside Bross hair salon), until Dec 10