SHINRO OHTAKE

In his third consecutive solo exhibition at Take Ninagawa, Shinro Ohtake, a major artist in Japan but little-known abroad, presents 17 works that continue to explore his taste for "stickering." The first installation, in May, featured an assortment of lurid, mostly '90s-era collages made with all kinds of printed matter, including cards, wallpaper and tape; in July, part two saw Ohtake's imagery mixed in with dense smears of white oil paint and a variety of found objects, such as cigarette packages, newspaper clippings, and photographs. In this third show, Ohtake's work is a more intricately layered synthesis of imagery and matter. In heavily lacquered collages, the artist suspends salvaged cultural flotsam and circles of colorful acrylic, drawing on the entire global canon of pop culture. In the exhibition's large centerpiece, Poppy / Sound Shadow 1, Ohtake compresses contemporary icons and forms into a riff on 20th-century nostalgia.

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