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Emerging Artist Support Program 2008 "Wonder Bang!"
Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo
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Ludovic Jecker, Rumi Kawamura, Camille Laurelli, Mario Maffei, Luc Mattenberger, Hikaru Miyakawa, Gianni Motti, Georges Rey, Yann Vanderme
Right after its opening in 2001, Tokyo Wonder Site launched the "TWS-Emerging" series with the aim of nurturing young creators. In addition to this program for artists, a support program for aspiring curators was implemented in 2006, inviting applications from young exhibition organizers with concrete plans for art shows.
This exhibition entitled "Wonder Bang!" presents works on the theme of existentialism by a total of nine artists from France, Switzerland, Italy and Japan. Gianni Motti built his work around audio recordings of an artificial Big Bang created at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. For Overflow, Rumi Kawamura licked candies and stuck them on a wall. Georges Rey shows Fumee, a 3-minute video of smoke. Mario Maffei incorporates in his prayer drawing Evangelization Station a variety of taboos; and Camille Laurelli presents the installation Sans Titre, a mountain of shredded 20 Euro notes. The works on display were made with many different modes of expression and, while denying the inherent, underlying nature of things, suggest alternative conceptions of value apart from utility. The show invites visitors to ponder what may have caused the Big Bang that marked the beginning of the universe, and might perhaps even provide some clues for possible further interrogations. The event was designed as an occasion to look under the reverberations of the primordial sonic boom on the chain of discovery and demise that is our own existence.
(Organizer: Hikaru Miyakawa)
Related events
March 21st (Sat) 16:00- Opening Reception/ 17:00- Gallery Talk
March 22nd (Sun) 15:30-17:00 Georges Rey Symposium
This exhibition entitled "Wonder Bang!" presents works on the theme of existentialism by a total of nine artists from France, Switzerland, Italy and Japan. Gianni Motti built his work around audio recordings of an artificial Big Bang created at the European Organization for Nuclear Research. For Overflow, Rumi Kawamura licked candies and stuck them on a wall. Georges Rey shows Fumee, a 3-minute video of smoke. Mario Maffei incorporates in his prayer drawing Evangelization Station a variety of taboos; and Camille Laurelli presents the installation Sans Titre, a mountain of shredded 20 Euro notes. The works on display were made with many different modes of expression and, while denying the inherent, underlying nature of things, suggest alternative conceptions of value apart from utility. The show invites visitors to ponder what may have caused the Big Bang that marked the beginning of the universe, and might perhaps even provide some clues for possible further interrogations. The event was designed as an occasion to look under the reverberations of the primordial sonic boom on the chain of discovery and demise that is our own existence.
(Organizer: Hikaru Miyakawa)
Related events
March 21st (Sat) 16:00- Opening Reception/ 17:00- Gallery Talk
March 22nd (Sun) 15:30-17:00 Georges Rey Symposium
Schedule | Mar 21 (Sat) 2009-Apr 19 (Sun) 2009 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Mar 21 (Sat) 2009 16:00 - 00:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://www.tokyo-ws.org/english/archive/2009/03/emerging-artist-support-program-2008-wonder-bang.shtml | ||||
| Venue | Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo https://www.tokyoartsandspace.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 2-4-16 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 | ||||
| Access | 5 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 | ||||
| Phone | 03-5689-5331 | ||||
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