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"Musashino Art University 80th Anniversary: Metamorphosis -Objects Today- vol.2 Transmutable Objects" Exhibition
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Motohiro Tomii, Nobuhiro Nakanishi
This exhibition aims to examine the metamorphosis of objects, which is the core element of sculptural art today. In this highly information-based society, we are constantly surrounded by immaterial visual environments. It is no wonder that the ways in which artists tackle objects have been changing in a time like this. This series of exhibitions focuses on new modes of sculptural expression that depart in striking ways from preexisting forms of the materialistic imagination, or from the tension between object and image.
While Japanese sculpture used to be built upon a considerable degree of dependency on the objects themselves, artists working today seem to be moving away from such a tendency, intentionally deviating from the preexisting logic where things are generated through a mere accumulation of materials. These ten participating artists communicate with their respective media/materials while maintaining a certain distance from them. What occurs within this distance between an object and an artist is metamorphosis, which realizes a resulting work to be not a mere sculpture but rather something more intangible.
-Kazuo Amano
Dates: May 9th (Sat), 2009 - March 20th (Sat), 2010
*A total of 8 volumes consisting of solo and 2 person exhibitions
[Image: "Four Color Sponges" (2007) sponge 69x60x60cm, photo by Masaru Yanagiba (C)Motohiro Tomii]
While Japanese sculpture used to be built upon a considerable degree of dependency on the objects themselves, artists working today seem to be moving away from such a tendency, intentionally deviating from the preexisting logic where things are generated through a mere accumulation of materials. These ten participating artists communicate with their respective media/materials while maintaining a certain distance from them. What occurs within this distance between an object and an artist is metamorphosis, which realizes a resulting work to be not a mere sculpture but rather something more intangible.
-Kazuo Amano
Dates: May 9th (Sat), 2009 - March 20th (Sat), 2010
*A total of 8 volumes consisting of solo and 2 person exhibitions
[Image: "Four Color Sponges" (2007) sponge 69x60x60cm, photo by Masaru Yanagiba (C)Motohiro Tomii]
Schedule | Jun 13 (Sat) 2009-Jul 18 (Sat) 2009 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Gallery αM | ||||
| Location | 2F Musashino Art University Ichigaya Campus, 1-4 Ichigaya Tamachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-0843 | ||||
| Access | 2 minute walk from exit 6 at Ichigaya Station on the Yurakucho and Namboku lines, 3 minute walk from exit 4 at Ichigaya Station on the Toei Shinjuku line, 3 minute walk from Ichigaya Station on the JR Chuo and JR Sobu lines. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5829-9109 | ||||
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