PixCell-Deer#24

Kohei Nawa Japanese

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 232

Kohei Nawa has transformed this taxidermied deer through the application of glass beads called “PixCells,” a term the artist invented that conflates the idea of a pixel (the smallest unit of a digital image) with a biological cell. Perhaps intentionally, Kohei evokes a type of Japanese religious painting known as the Kasuga Deer Mandala, in which a deer is similarly posed with its head turned to the side and a round mirror on its back. Deer were understood to be messengers for Shinto deities and were closely associated with the Kasuga Shrine, in Nara.

PixCell-Deer#24, Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Mixed media; taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass, Japan

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PixCell-Deer#24, Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Mixed media; taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass, Japan
PixCell-Deer#24, Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Mixed media; taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass, Japan
PixCell-Deer#24, Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Mixed media; taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass, Japan
PixCell-Deer#24, Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Mixed media; taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass, Japan
PixCell-Deer#24, Kohei Nawa (Japanese, born 1975), Mixed media; taxidermied deer with artificial crystal glass, Japan

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