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Kumi Yamashita “Mountain and Valley”
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Kumi Yamashita
This exhibition will showcase two categories of Yamashita’s work. The first is her signature style of sculpture using light and shadow and the second is a new body of work that borrows from the art of origami. Yamashita’s work with light and shadows is well known. The sharp imagery of her cutting-edge objects is influenced by her childhood exposure to traditional Japanese craft. Although her work uses the universal medium of light and shadow, it also shows specifically Japanese characteristics. The methods Yamashita uses in the realization of her work is meticulous. She sketches repeatedly in order to calculate the state and scale of the light being used, ensuring that the shadow will appear just as if a real figure had cast it. This perhaps contrasts with the dynamic yet rougher technique often preferred by foreign artists, and leads us to see in Yamashita’s work the kind of beauty observed in traditional craft.
Schedule | Sep 11 (Fri) 2015-Oct 12 (Mon) 2015 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 11 (Fri) 2015 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://artfrontgallery.com/en/exhibition/archive/2015_09/1440.html | ||||||
| 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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