Le temps perdu 1982

Katsuhito Nishikawa made Le temps perdu, that's 'lost time' in French, from an unknown medium. He's playing with geometry, space, and the way we perceive objects. The colour's really limited - a simple grayscale, almost like a photograph. The texture looks like it's rough, uneven, with brushstrokes or tool marks visible on the frame. It's not trying to hide the process; it’s actually emphasizing it. Look at the edges of the frame, how they’re not perfectly smooth. It's like time itself has worn them down. Makes you think about Marcel Duchamp and his readymades, taking ordinary objects and turning them into art. Nishikawa does something similar here, elevating a simple frame into something thought-provoking. This is definitely part of an ongoing conversation in art about what's real and what's an illusion. Art is about embracing those multiple interpretations, those uncertainties.