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Yuichi Tabuchi Exhibition
LIXIL Gallery 1 & 2
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Yuichi Tabuchi
Tabuchi's work consists of monochrome photos, human figures in wirework, and geometrically shaped sculptures shut inside a box measuring 385x280x35mm.
The monochrome photos depict human figures placed against landscapes featuring seasides, snowscapes, signs blotted over with ink, wooden walls exposed to the elements. In the blank spaces, short tanka verses have been written.
Although the photos were taken by Tabuchi, the human wirework figures look like characters in a photo or even disembodied souls are based on distant memories from old photo albums, leading viewers somewhere remote, tranquil and faintly sad.
After working as an editor at an art publishing company, Tabuchi spent the 80s and 90s as a designer handling both editorial and graphics, working on numerous projects. While pursuing design work, he also quietly pursued a personal project on the side, producing abstract photos using lines by using a photography device christened "Tabtype" that he believed manifested a certain personal sensibility. Since 2000, Tabuchi began working on photography work in earnest.
One inspiration for this turn was a meeting with the poet Takao Mitsuhana. While working on the binding for the poetry collection "Sugatanaki Kyakujin" in 2003, Tabuchi was working on the design for the cover as if working to produce an art object, as per usual. The motifs for these tanka poems came from the Feast of Lanterns, a Buddhist rite held in August. Tabuchi has created the "visitors" to these rites using wire that has been randomly interwoven in multiple layers like mesh.
Artist Talk: September 1st (Mon) 18:00-19:00
The monochrome photos depict human figures placed against landscapes featuring seasides, snowscapes, signs blotted over with ink, wooden walls exposed to the elements. In the blank spaces, short tanka verses have been written.
Although the photos were taken by Tabuchi, the human wirework figures look like characters in a photo or even disembodied souls are based on distant memories from old photo albums, leading viewers somewhere remote, tranquil and faintly sad.
After working as an editor at an art publishing company, Tabuchi spent the 80s and 90s as a designer handling both editorial and graphics, working on numerous projects. While pursuing design work, he also quietly pursued a personal project on the side, producing abstract photos using lines by using a photography device christened "Tabtype" that he believed manifested a certain personal sensibility. Since 2000, Tabuchi began working on photography work in earnest.
One inspiration for this turn was a meeting with the poet Takao Mitsuhana. While working on the binding for the poetry collection "Sugatanaki Kyakujin" in 2003, Tabuchi was working on the design for the cover as if working to produce an art object, as per usual. The motifs for these tanka poems came from the Feast of Lanterns, a Buddhist rite held in August. Tabuchi has created the "visitors" to these rites using wire that has been randomly interwoven in multiple layers like mesh.
Artist Talk: September 1st (Mon) 18:00-19:00
Schedule | Sep 1 (Mon) 2008-Sep 26 (Fri) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | LIXIL Gallery 1 & 2 https://www.livingculture.lixil/en/gallery/  | ||||
| Location | 2F LIXIL:Ginza Tokyo Tatemono Kyobashi Bldg., 3-6-18 Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0031 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit 2 at Kyobashi Station on the Ginza line, 3 minute walk from exit 6 at Ginza-itchome Station on the Yurakucho line, 3 minute walk from exit A4 at Takaracho Station on the Toei Asakusa line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5250-6530 | ||||
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