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Yuichi Higashionna "Refract!"
Calm & Punk Gallery
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Yuichi Higashionna
Reverberation and refraction. Vertigo and awakening. A humorous, sexy thrill...
Yuichi Higashionna is an artist working in painting, art objects, video and installation, crossing genres, and mixing and matching various motifs and materials in works that leverage and make clever use of the viewer's sense of sight. His work poses provocative questions on the experience of seeing, and having seen, in modern society.
This exhibition, entitled "Refract!", showcases an installation that uses the high (5m) ceiling in the gallery to highlight objects that Higashionna personally believes to positively overflow with a sense of everydayness, and as a result have a certain uncanny, ominous feeling about them. In addition to a large-scale newly-made chandelier, the other objects in this installation include mirror balls, a fluorescent light piece that makes use of the floor, a striped work made up of rubber bands, paintings, animations, moire and optical effects. This motley ensemble functions as a kind of mirror, refracting our line of sight, sending that gaze right back to us, unsettling our sense of place and eliciting a sense of both vertigo and awakening.
In addition, Gas As Interface, Inc will be holding a pre-launch sale of Gas Book 25: Yuichi Higashionna, the first collection of his work that gathers in one book his representative work from recent years.
Yuichi Higashionna is an artist working in painting, art objects, video and installation, crossing genres, and mixing and matching various motifs and materials in works that leverage and make clever use of the viewer's sense of sight. His work poses provocative questions on the experience of seeing, and having seen, in modern society.
This exhibition, entitled "Refract!", showcases an installation that uses the high (5m) ceiling in the gallery to highlight objects that Higashionna personally believes to positively overflow with a sense of everydayness, and as a result have a certain uncanny, ominous feeling about them. In addition to a large-scale newly-made chandelier, the other objects in this installation include mirror balls, a fluorescent light piece that makes use of the floor, a striped work made up of rubber bands, paintings, animations, moire and optical effects. This motley ensemble functions as a kind of mirror, refracting our line of sight, sending that gaze right back to us, unsettling our sense of place and eliciting a sense of both vertigo and awakening.
In addition, Gas As Interface, Inc will be holding a pre-launch sale of Gas Book 25: Yuichi Higashionna, the first collection of his work that gathers in one book his representative work from recent years.
Schedule | May 16 (Fri) 2008-Jun 5 (Thu) 2008 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Calm & Punk Gallery http://www.calmandpunk.com  | ||||
| Location | 1F Asai Bldg., 1-15-15 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 12 minute walk from exit 7 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5775-0825 | ||||
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