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1. Northpoint Galax Atlas 2. Big Bang - Homage to Gamov 3. The Red Orb 4. Googol5. Black Hole 6. Solar System
His art practice involves creating art from somewhere where nothing exists. Described in a different way, it involves staring intently at what could possibly be created from somewhere there is nothing. Kanayama disliked the "affectation" that is part of "creating" art. He idealized the fact that some kind of law or phenomena that were not acts of man resulted as works of art.
When talking about Kanayama, it is important to mention his continued lifelong support for the work of Atsuko Tanaka who was a member of the original Gutai from its inception and who has been greatly reevaluated in recent years.
It was an interest in outer space that sparked Kanayama's desire anew to produce art. Kanayama's fascination with physics, mathematics and astronomy extended to him travelling to meet the "Big Bang theory" physicist, George Gamow (1904-1968) during his visit to Japan in order to get his autograph. The Big Bang was the very moment when an infinite cosmos was created from nothingness. From the 1990s, Kanayama began producing paintings that were homages to Gamow, collages of observational photographs of the galaxy with the assistance of an astronomer, and paintings depicting models of the heavenlybodies in simplified form. These works by Kanayama are not merely explorations of the nature of the cosmos but are vestiges of the philosophical contemplation of a man in his attempt to create something.
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