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Iku Harada + Tomomi Nishizawa Exhibition “This, and the Other”
Art Front Gallery
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Iku Harada, Tomomi Nishizawa
Tomomi Nishizawa, a young artist who recently received the Salon de Printemps Award, projects the theme of “cosmetic beauty” in her installation pieces using eyelash curlers and other beauticians’ tools. Here she explores the notion of the inner and outer face, the face we choose to show and the face we choose to hide. Overcoming the dominance of the male gaze in the approach to cosmetics as seen in the work of Carot, Bonnard and Seurat and the likes of novelist Kawabata Yasunari who wrote Kesho (Make-up), she here offers up a contemporary commentary by capturing the “cosmetic” within the female milieu.
In contrast, Iku Harada takes on the make up of space through productions of fictional worlds first devised in 3D form upon a computer which are then translated in paint upon canvas, nesting between the virtual and real. In this exhibition, her two-dimensional paintings are accompanied with objects from the virtual world recreated in real space, and installations combining both the flat and solid are attempted. Virtual space, cut away from its context, is recast in the real world.
In contrast, Iku Harada takes on the make up of space through productions of fictional worlds first devised in 3D form upon a computer which are then translated in paint upon canvas, nesting between the virtual and real. In this exhibition, her two-dimensional paintings are accompanied with objects from the virtual world recreated in real space, and installations combining both the flat and solid are attempted. Virtual space, cut away from its context, is recast in the real world.
Schedule | Feb 13 (Fri) 2015-Mar 1 (Sun) 2015 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://artfrontgallery.com/en/exhibition/archive/2015_02/1355 | ||||||
| Venue | Art Front Gallery http://www.artfrontgallery.com/ | ||||||
| Location | Hillside Terrace A, 29-18 Sarugakucho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0033 | ||||||
| Access | 3 minute walk from Daikanyama Station on the Tokyu Toyoko line, 11 minute walk from the West exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines, 8 minute walk from exit 4 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-3476-4869 | ||||||
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