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Tadashi Kawamata “Early Works”
Misa Shin Gallery
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Tadashi Kawamata
Kawamata Tadashi began creating site-specific work for urban spaces while studying at Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music towards the end of the 1970s. Following this approach for over 40 years, he has worked worldwide, continually attempting to transcend conventional boundaries of artistic expression.
In the 1980s, when Japan first began to apply the term “project” to art, Kawamata was already using a work-in-progress style that considered art as an entire process including preparation, installation, and disassembly. Kawamata’s projects are continually changing and progressing, encompassing collaboration with individuals who are dealing with social problems, such as the unemployed and drug users, examining and constructing relationships between the significance of cities and the people who live in them, such as in the case of people living in former coal mine districts, as well as integrating architecture and urban planning, history and sociology, everyday communication, and human memory and psychology. In addition to embodying the work-in-progress concept that posits his work as unfinished and provisional, the artist considers each project to incorporate all the processes involved — including the actions and processes of the participants, as well as each drawing and model produced in the course of implementing the project.
Including works such as “P.S.1 Project Plan” (1984), “Favela in Battery Park City N.Y.” (1988), and “People’s Garden (D9) Plan #7” (1992), this exhibition presents a selection of Kawamata’s early works. Each demonstrates his involvement with urban variety and change, taking new perspectives that reveal issues and potential lurking in the crevices of the urban fabric, and incorporating them into his projects.
In the 1980s, when Japan first began to apply the term “project” to art, Kawamata was already using a work-in-progress style that considered art as an entire process including preparation, installation, and disassembly. Kawamata’s projects are continually changing and progressing, encompassing collaboration with individuals who are dealing with social problems, such as the unemployed and drug users, examining and constructing relationships between the significance of cities and the people who live in them, such as in the case of people living in former coal mine districts, as well as integrating architecture and urban planning, history and sociology, everyday communication, and human memory and psychology. In addition to embodying the work-in-progress concept that posits his work as unfinished and provisional, the artist considers each project to incorporate all the processes involved — including the actions and processes of the participants, as well as each drawing and model produced in the course of implementing the project.
Including works such as “P.S.1 Project Plan” (1984), “Favela in Battery Park City N.Y.” (1988), and “People’s Garden (D9) Plan #7” (1992), this exhibition presents a selection of Kawamata’s early works. Each demonstrates his involvement with urban variety and change, taking new perspectives that reveal issues and potential lurking in the crevices of the urban fabric, and incorporating them into his projects.
Schedule | Aug 2 (Wed) 2017-Oct 7 (Sat) 2017 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Venue | Misa Shin Gallery http://www.misashin.com/  | ||||||
| Location | 1F 3-9-11 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047 | ||||||
| Access | 11 minute walk from exit 4 at Shirokane-takanawa Station on the Namboku or Toei Mita line, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-6450-2334 | ||||||
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