Untitled

Untitled (Head with standing figure) is a work by the Japanese artist Izumi Kato (Shimane Prefecture, Japan, 1969). With piercing eyes, elongated limbs, and bulging heads, Kato’s otherworldly figures strike an emotional chord that is undeniably and hauntingly human. The artist layers pigment directly onto his canvases, literally rubbing his haunting figures. In the early 2000s, he began creating sculptural forms, working with camphor wood and soft vinyl. He embraced sculpture because he felt that sculptures naturally had a friendly relationship with the world, and he materialises in his busts and figures a new way of being human.