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Yasuyuki Nishio "Exoticism"
Yamamoto Gendai
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Yasuyuki Nishio
Yasuyuki Nishio's solo exhibition “DROWN” in 2009 attracted much attention for its works visualizing the imaginative process of the human body transforming into the aquatic, initiated in reaction to the tsunami following the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake. The incident was a striking reminder that water is essential yet extremely threatening to human life, which led Nishio to an idea that humans are maybe able to survive this threat by becoming capable of living in water.
After three years, Japan has encountered an unprecedented earthquake catastrophe. Not only the threats of the massive earthquake and following tsunami but this event also left people with the continuing threat of radiation resulted from the collapsed nuclear power generators of the affected region. In the forceful reminder of fateful crisis of the nation, Nishio contemplated his origin and himself as Japanese. In the latest works in the exhibition, the artist reconsiders Western classical decoration, which nobody has questioned the historical superiority of, by reversing the concept of exoticism, a perspective of the West as a cultural center to the foreign.
This exhibition will feature a sculpture of a tool as an extension of a body in a form of real-scale car in Victorian decoration, a statue of praying woman as a spaceship to seek salvation in space with the visual vocabulary of the time when space was yet to be discovered, and a relief with narrative elements in reference to “Shoujo Manga Manga (Girls’ Comic)”, which distortedly evolved from the mixture of Japanese and Western aesthetics, among others.
[Image: Yasuyuki Nishio "Exoticism" (2012)]
After three years, Japan has encountered an unprecedented earthquake catastrophe. Not only the threats of the massive earthquake and following tsunami but this event also left people with the continuing threat of radiation resulted from the collapsed nuclear power generators of the affected region. In the forceful reminder of fateful crisis of the nation, Nishio contemplated his origin and himself as Japanese. In the latest works in the exhibition, the artist reconsiders Western classical decoration, which nobody has questioned the historical superiority of, by reversing the concept of exoticism, a perspective of the West as a cultural center to the foreign.
This exhibition will feature a sculpture of a tool as an extension of a body in a form of real-scale car in Victorian decoration, a statue of praying woman as a spaceship to seek salvation in space with the visual vocabulary of the time when space was yet to be discovered, and a relief with narrative elements in reference to “Shoujo Manga Manga (Girls’ Comic)”, which distortedly evolved from the mixture of Japanese and Western aesthetics, among others.
[Image: Yasuyuki Nishio "Exoticism" (2012)]
Schedule | Apr 14 (Sat) 2012-May 12 (Sat) 2012 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Yamamoto Gendai http://yamamotogendai.org/  | ||||
| Location | 3F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail or Rinkai line. From JR Shinagawa station, take the Toei bus (towards Yashio Park Town), and get off at Tennouzubashi. The venue is 3 minute walk from there. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6433-2988 | ||||
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