TAB Event - "Silence in the Light" Exhibition

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At Wako Works of Art
Media: Photography, Other, Sculpture, Installation, Art Party

Opening September 13, Wako Works of Art is very pleased to present a collaborative exhibition by Noritoshi Hirakawa, Hiroshi Sunairi and Arto Lindsay. First exhibited at Venetia Kapernekas Gallery in New York in early 2008, this exhibition will feature new works by the three artists that explore the human existence and condition.

Hirakawa’s photo series "In Reminiscence of the Sea" captures the landscape and lives around the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant facing the Sea of Enshu, off the central Pacific coast of Japan. Like many of Hirakawa’s photographs, the beautiful, poignant images are only a façade to the horror the lies beneath — in this case, the Fossa Magna fault line, which seismologist have long warned could cause a large earthquake, and politics that are involved in running a nuclear facility.

Sunairi’s sculptural installation "Elephant Dinner" is based on the Buddhist fable, "Parable of the Blind Men and the Elephant."

When the blind men had felt the elephant, the raja went to each of them and said to each, 'Well, blind man, have you seen the elephant? Tell me, what sort of thing is an elephant?' "Thereupon the men who were presented with the head answered, 'Sire, an elephant is like a pot.' And the men who had observed the ear replied, 'An elephant is like a winnowing basket.' Those who had been presented with a tusk said it was a ploughshare. Those who knew only the trunk said it was a plough; others said the body was a grainery; the foot, a pillar; the back, a mortar; the tail, a pestle, the tuft of the tail, a brush. (Udana 68-69)

Like everyday objects, table ware, and furniture, ceramic elephant body parts are arranged on a table. This is a sequel installation to Sunairi's most recent work, "White Elephant" presented at the Japan Society in New York. In "White Elephant," Sunairi created a life-sized deconstructed elephant as a memorial for 9/11. "Elephant Dinner" also employs the same white ceramic medium, only this time, the abstraction of body parts are enhanced, projecting the idea of relativity expressed in the fable.

O how they cling and wrangle, some who claim
For preacher and monk the honored name!
For, quarreling, each to his view they cling.
Such folk see only one side of a thing. (Udana 68-69)

Lindsay was approached by Hirakawa to contribute lyrics for this exhibition. Never set to music, the lyrics printed and installed with the photographs and sculpture of Hirakawa and Sunairi are an inaudible reminder of the missing element of sound.

Please note that the opening reception for "Silence in the Light" will be held on Monday, September 15, 5-7PM (not Sunday, September 14, 6-8PM as previously announced).

There will also be another reception on the same day for Noritoshi Hirakawa at Nanzuka Underground from 7-9PM, on the occasion of his solo exhibition.

Nanzuka Underground
Shibuya IBIS Bldg. B1F, 2-17-3, Shibuya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 150-0002 Japan
http://nug.jp/top/

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