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Rosa Doornenbal “Non-self”

Higure 17-15 CAS (Contemporary Art Studio)
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Artists

Rosa Doornenbal
AIT is pleased to host the exhibition, “Non-self” by Rosa Doornenbal. The exhibition opens on Saturday March 26 through Thursday March 31 at Higure 17-15 cas in Tokyo. Doonenbal is from Amsterdam, The Netherlands and currently staying in Tokyo as an artist-in-residence with AIT.

If a tearoom can contain the universe, how can the tea bowl create emptiness?

In the history of the Japanese Tea Ceremony, its specific aesthetic language became more and more defined, while at the same time, the ceremony still functions as a moment to escape reality and focus on the very moment of making and drinking tea. After leaving your worldly desires behind you, you will enter a spiritual realm and hopefully transcend the ‘self’. Though, walking through the streets of a present-day urban landscape, another reality checks in. A contemporary pop culture with its own conceptions of beauty; where girls will always be young and eyes are excessively big. ‘Non-self’ is a visual exploration of the aesthetic ideologies of two contradicting but yet very explicit visual cultures. It tries to grasp their spiritual and signifying fundamental.

In Doornenbal’s interdisciplinary practice, she investigates how formal, cultural and social aspects influence the appreciation of, and identification with objects in everyday life. The parallel of this in the art world - the viewer’s experience of sculpture - is central in her work.

Schedule

Mar 26 (Sat) 2016-Mar 31 (Thu) 2016 

Opening Hours Information

Closed
Depends on each event.
FeeFree
VenueHigure 17-15 CAS (Contemporary Art Studio)
Location3-17-15 Nishinippori, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-0013
Access6 minute walk from the West Exit of Nippori Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner, JR or Keisei line. 6 minute walk from exit 1 at Nishi-nippori Station on the Chiyoda line.
Phone03-3823-6216
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