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Tetsuro Kano "Protean Wood"
Yuka Tsuruno Gallery
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Tetsuro Kano
Tetsuro Kano’s previous works have focused on residency-based projects where he produced installations combining natural objects and readymade items and products, and site-specific pieces that incorporate drawings and photography. Other installation works have involved scattering the seeds of various plants within the exhibition space and watching over them as they grew, and designed spaces that contained birds and plants. Last year, Kano’s solo showcase made top billing at the Bloomberg Pavilion Project, an exhibition held at a custom-made pavilion on the grounds of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, winning him much acclaim. For this project, Kano created an installation using nets, hoses and bird traps that he called “Naturplan”. Installed in the exhibition hall of a museum, Naturplan proposed a novel way of perceiving space. The various readymade items carried a symbolic meaning for human observers. Birds, however, recognized Kano’s installation as a living environment. By deviating from the original significance and function of his chosen materials and the spaces in which they are displayed, and then recombining them in different configurations, Kano creates landscapes on an everyday scale, as well as spatial environments that resemble drawings. Kano’s works, which incorporate plants, animals and other objects involving an element of chance and contingency that eludes human control, make us aware of a conception of time that does not proceed in accordance with the nature of human perception. At the same time, they spark our imagination and prompt us to think about the non-human creatures and organisms that share our habitat, each living in what they consider to be “nature”.
Kano’s first solo show at Yuka Tsuruno consists of a newly conceived installation in the Naturplan series, as well as several drawings. "Protean wood" is based on the theories of Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll, who wrote that “a single oak tree plays widely diverging roles to each one of a whole host of different creatures,” and represents Kano’s own take on the subject. On the one hand, the artist gazes disbelievingly at the world before him, a passive bystander who casts a shadow of doubt on various phenomena that humans have ascribed significance to. At the same time, however, this work also showcases Kano’s keen powers of observation with regard to the natural environments of animals that transcend those anthropocentric notions, and the culture that derives from this alternative conception of nature.
[Image: Tetsuro Kano "Nameless play" (2012) Installation, Photo by Kenji Morita]
Kano’s first solo show at Yuka Tsuruno consists of a newly conceived installation in the Naturplan series, as well as several drawings. "Protean wood" is based on the theories of Estonian biologist Jakob von Uexküll, who wrote that “a single oak tree plays widely diverging roles to each one of a whole host of different creatures,” and represents Kano’s own take on the subject. On the one hand, the artist gazes disbelievingly at the world before him, a passive bystander who casts a shadow of doubt on various phenomena that humans have ascribed significance to. At the same time, however, this work also showcases Kano’s keen powers of observation with regard to the natural environments of animals that transcend those anthropocentric notions, and the culture that derives from this alternative conception of nature.
[Image: Tetsuro Kano "Nameless play" (2012) Installation, Photo by Kenji Morita]
Schedule | Apr 7 (Sat) 2012-May 12 (Sat) 2012 Opening Hours Information
Reception for artist Apr 7 (Sat) 2012 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Yuka Tsuruno Gallery http://yukatsuruno.com/  | ||||
| Location | 3F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 9 minute walk from the North exit of Shimbamba Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-5781-2525 | ||||
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