TAB Event - Yoshitaka Yazu "Holy and Common"

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At Takuro Someya Contemporary Art
Media: Installation

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Yoshitaka Yazu was born in Osaka in 1980, and is now a young artist working mainly in Kyoto. After majoring in sculpture at the Kyoto City University of the Arts, he became a member of the young artist unit Antenna. He has been working solo since 2007.

Taking as his theme the issue of how to interpret and talk about "the universe (the entire world, oneself included)", Yazu uses as his motifs the earliest forms of faith and the manifold devices that grew out of these beliefs, attempting to unearth new images of the divine.

Yazu has expressed a more than usual interest in the human capacity for "sensing the divine", giving expression to this sensibility in the form of spaces that manifest a ceremonial or ritualistic feeling in neutral works. Yazu discards extraneous elements from a modern age inundated with a confusion of countless things and waves of information, creating a space of inviolable sacredness using simple, even naked works.

The title of this exhibition, "Holy and Common", takes as its theme two opposites - at least at first glance. In particular, "The Corona", a large scale installation made out of LED devices based on the phenomenon of a solar eclipse, embodies this two-sided character outlined in the title. Two ordinary, daily phenomena that we take for granted, the sun and moon, become transfigured into a mysterious spectacle in the blink of an eye, changing form for the limited duration of such an eclipse and transcending the limitations of the "common".

In this exhibition, Yazu leverages the shared common sensibility we all have of intimations of the divine, expressed in this space that reminds us of its potential.

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