Born in Tokyo, 1981. Finished a master’s degree at Tama Art University (department of ceramic, glass, and metal works). Trying to define the borderline in society by using metal. Recently working on a series named “anonymous” which Kato scans the people who have criminal history or weapons by 3D scanners and form a complicated iron structure that has the burly and strong mood of iron and visual effects caused by this unique structure. Also, Kato is working on a series called “iron oxide painting” in which he uses original paint made of medium with crushed oxide iron and it is hard to define if it is a real iron or not. As it is described as mimicking iron itself. Kato is currently working on these two series.
This sculpture expresses the repetitive shadows crawling on an anonymous human body using a complex series of steel lines. By shifting one’s viewpoint while looking at the sculpture, the complex sequence and overlapping of the steel lines create the effect of interference fringes (moiré). Hard materials are transformed into castrated, floating, ghost-like forms.