Everyday objects comically repurposed
WHEN Japanese artist Teppei Kaneuji visited Haw Par Villa last year, he was amazed by the hundreds of statues and dioramas at the unusual theme park. He took several pictures, which he then combined with drawn images of banal objects to construct colourful collages.
He also took pictures of ordinary objects around Singapore and repurposed them by drawing other objects around them, turning them into strange new contraptions in some parallel cartoon universe.
Kaneuji, 36, is what some art critics call a "commodity artist". His works simultaneously celebrate and critique the plethora of unnecessary things that urban dwellers surround themselves with.
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