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Ryota Tsukamoto “Drive-thru”

G/P Gallery
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Ryota Tsukamoto
Ryota Tsukamoto was born in Osaka in 1986 and won a grand prize at the Tokyo Frontline Photo Award in 2017, an award that has been given to contemporary photographers since 2011. Having been fascinated with creating things since his childhood, at university Tsukamoto specialized in the study of design in general, where his interest gradually shifted toward contemporary art. After graduating, he continued to create works that he eventually showed in exhibitions such as the one-man show “Tough” at Baikado, Osaka (2013). Tsukamoto is currently involved in “The Kennedys,” a short-term program of the advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo.
The Tokyo Frontline grand prize Tsukamoto received for “Reisei na nettai (Cool tropics),” a work for which he made several objects using painted wooden boards from a home center, and subsequently photographed those objects from various angles and distances. This is documented, for example, in ”Drive-thru Capture,” a video showing how he arranges such boards on the street, and photographs them while driving past in his car. The artist himself explains that the boards that look like works of art as soon as they are painted in bright primary colors evoke the thoughtlessness of childish tricks and the violence of colors, and further, that the way capturing these actions on video (at least seems to) take the objects out of their contexts and connect them to new ones gives him great pleasure. Tsukamoto describes his work as an “exploration of the ambiguous area between artworks and things that haven’t yet become art,” and indeed, his works may be simply an act of copying and rearranging the codes of established art styles on vividly colored wooden boards as part of the artist’s daily life. An opportunity for observing what kinds of meanings emerge when Tsukamoto further develops these objects into his actual photographic works, this exhibition will inspire visitors to reflect on the artistic values the medium of photography can generate in connection with other areas such as three-dimensional art or performance. A total of eight items, including his prize-winning work and new pieces, will be on show and an accompanying booklet published.

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Schedule

Dec 2 (Sat) 2017-Dec 28 (Thu) 2017 

Opening Hours Information

Hours
12:00-20:00
Closed
Monday

Opening Reception Dec 2 (Sat) 2017 18:00 - 20:00

FeeFree
VenueG/P Gallery
http://gptokyo.jp/
LocationNADiff A/P/A/R/T 2F 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013
Access6 minutes walk from the East exit of JR Ebisu Station.
Phone03-5422-9331
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