To mark the opening of international pairing show at the MCA this week – some samples of Zon Ito’s work. Classically trained in ‘Nihongo’ painting, Ito’s stitched canvases often reference traditional Japanese landscape values while being highly innovative embroidery experiments. On show in this exhibition is a range of his subtle but distinctive needle-and-thread ‘paintings’ alongside video works and mini sculptural forms that look like strange fleshy organisms who want to be your friends for ever and ever [read more]