(Signed) EVERYTHING_2 by Kenta Cobayashi

A collection of works by Japanese photographer Kenta Kobayashi.

Kobayashi has garnered a great deal of attention for his style of applying graffiti-like effects to photographs he has taken himself by applying bold digital editing to them, transforming the images into photon paintings with dissolved pixel data. is a writer. In recent years, in addition to exhibitions at museums and galleries in Japan and overseas, collaborations with fashion brand “PUGMENT” of the same generation and programmer Yuuki Takada, collection pieces for dunhill 2020SS, LOUIS VUITTON’s 2019AW campaign image, and maison Osaka Midosuji. He has expanded his field of activity, such as by working on window displays.

This work focuses on Tokyo and other cities and people of the same generation who live there. caught inside. The question about photography, "What is it to photograph the truth?" is posed beyond the framework of concrete/abstract, straight/extended images.

Like the previous work, it uses offset printing, but it uses a printing method that uses Kaleido ink, which enables a wide range of colors close to RGB. Realized. In addition, the binding follows the previous work, and the pages can be attached and detached with a single elastic cord, and it is possible to make a single book by binding the series together.

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Limited to 500 copies. Signed by the author.

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Title: EVERYTHING_2
Artist: Kenta Cobayashi
Newfave, 2020
Softcover with rubber band, printed with Kaleido® ink
297mm x 210mm, 80 pages
Limited edition of 500 copies
￥4,500 + tax