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Image: "Ring Ring", 6 channel video projection on the 120000 golden bells Installation view at Taipei Artist Village Photo: Chang-Chih Chen]

Nobuhiro Shimura “Ring Ring”

Yuka Tsuruno Gallery
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Artists

Nobuhiro Shimura
This is Shimura’s second solo show at Yuka Tsuruno Gallery, and will showcase “Ring Ring”, one of his most important works, for the first time in Japan. During a three-month long residency program in Taipei Artist Village in 2010, Shimura was overwhelmed by the world tinged with red and gold in preparation for the Chinese New Year, and produced two works taking this experience as his inspiration: “Goldfish”, which projects moving images of goldfish onto trees, and “Ring Ring”, which uses gold bells as a screen. For the exhibition in Taipei, footage of the water’s edge at sea shot from above was projected on a hexagonal screen composed of 120,000 bells hung like a window shade. The waves that come and go vertically called to mind the image of fireworks, an indispensable feature of any Chinese New Year celebration.

The tile ring ring derives from the “ringing” of bells when viewers enter the work, and the “ring” form of the screen, but also from the “lin” in huan ying guang lin, meaning “welcome” in Mandarin, an expression Shimura learned by ear soon after his arrival in Taipei. The artist says that learning that the Chinese character for lin, 臨, means “to come” convinced him that it matched his work perfectly as it is completed by the viewer entering into the light. The works born out of the scenes in Taipei witnessed by the artist, will invite viewers here in Japan too into golden light accompanied by the melody of bells.

Schedule

Mar 19 (Sat) 2016-Apr 16 (Sat) 2016 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
11:00-18:00
Closed
Monday, Sunday, Holidays

Opening Reception Mar 19 (Sat) 2016 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
Websitehttp://yukatsuruno.com/pressrelease/pr055_ringring
VenueYuka Tsuruno Gallery
http://yukatsuruno.com/
Location3F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002
Access9 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.
Phone03-5781-2525
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