STRUCTURAL JAM: IT'S ALL LEAD GUITAR WHEN PROG ROCK RULED
THE EARTH

MASATO TAKASAKA

MARCH 23 -
APRIL 14, 2007

OPENING FRIDAY
MARCH 23, 6-8PM

Flamboyant 80’s rock guitar virtuoso Steve Vai provides the soundtrack for Masato Takasaka’s work in Structural jam: It’s all lead guitar when prog rock ruled the earth. Whilst the six texta drawings in this exhibition ignore the indulgent technical perfection of the genre, they could easily sit as posters for Vai’s music. They are the primitive constructions - they have rock colours, but with a folk – hand touch.

Takasaka reveals his aversion to the formality of architecture and questions the logic of picture making. His drawings look like he is a fan of modernism, but maybe not a die-hard fan, more like he has got other things on his mind - a fan that wants to know what happens when it’s not quite right.

TEXT: LISA RADFORD

POSTER
MASATO TAKASAKA, WARREN TAYLOR

(detail) So... so... studio
Acid-free marker on paper
2006/2007
750 X 550mm