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"Haptic" Exhibition

Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
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Artists

Efrain Almeida, Leda Catunda, Miki Kubota, Aiko Miyanaga, Tomoko Nagai, Erika Verzutti
DO NOT TOUCH THE WORKS OF ART, the warning reads. Why would one do such a thing in the first place? People generally touch works of art in order to try to understand something simple. Visual information is at times incapable of transmitting or adding an element of sensation or direct appreciation of the history of the object.

"Touching is believing"- this is what makes an image return to its material stage and a sculptural form, an ergonomic experience. When the making of the artwork is charged with such a haptic experience, the residual energy left behind by the hand of the artist seems to be a perpetual standing invitation for the hand of the viewer. A work that incites touching, generally, also incites thinking about touching; a precondition to the full appreciation of sculpture and surface-based representational painting.

In cultures richly devoted to the senses as a unifying experience between mind and matter, haptic aspects of art-making and consuming become so evident, and thus sometimes get taken for granted. This exhibition focuses on the works of six artists from two cultures dominated by sensuous impressions in diverse ways, whose working habits are closely associated with the hand and whose ideas are loosely inspired by tradition. (Vik Muniz)

The six artists chosen by Vik Muniz will create works while sharing the studio at TWS Aoyama: Creator-in-Residence from the middle of October. New works created during this period will be showcased at this exhibition.

[Image: Efrain Almeida "Manino" (2001) cedar wood and velvet, 23 x 30 x 20cm/ Photo: Mark Ritchie, Courtesy of Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo]

Schedule

Nov 22 (Sat) 2008-Jan 12 (Mon) 2009 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
11:00-19:00
Closed
Monday
Open on a public holiday Monday but closed on the following day. (unless this falls on a public holiday when the venue will open).
Closed during the New Year holidays and in between exhibitions.
Notice
Closed from December 29th to January 3rd
FeeFree
VenueTokyo Arts and Space Hongo
https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/
Location2-4-16 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033
Access5 minute walk from the East exit of Suidobashi Station on the JR Sobu or Toei Mita line. 6 minute walk from exit 1 at Hongo-sanchome Station on the Marunouchi or Toei Oedo line. 7 minute walk from Ochanomizu Station on the JR Chuo, Sobu or Marunouchi line
Phone03-5689-5331
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