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[Image: Tatsumi Orimoto "Clock Man, Tokyo, Aug. 16" (1991) digital print 900x600mm]

Tatsumi Orimoto From “Carrying series”

Aoyama|Meguro
Finished

Artists

Tatsumi Orimoto
4th solo exhibition by Tatsumi Orimoto (b. 1946, Kawasaki), a star contemporary artist and the pride of Kawasaki City.
Orimoto is known for key works such as “Bread Man,” in which he wrapped loaves of bread around his head, and “Art Mama,” a collaborative work produced with his mother Odai. However, in his exhibition last year at Kawasaki City Museum, “Art x Life,” viewers surprisingly encountered various unknown aspects of Tatsumi Orimoto through seeing an overwhelming volume of his artworks, such as drawings with freewheeling intimacy, three-dimensional works, print pieces, and documents of diverse performances.

In the late 1960s, Orimoto studied in America, on both the east and west coast. After joining the later years of Fluxus group activities in the 1970s, he returned to Japan. While leading a busy life as a manager of a construction company, he continued his artistic creativity at every opportunity. Faced with the bursting of the bubble economy in the early 1990’s, he dissolved his company and instantly switched his activities to creation and exhibition as an artist. Firmly based on his life living with his mother at his family home in Kawasaki, he actively promoted his artistic activities, though mainly in Europe.

The “Carrying” series that will be presented in this exhibition is a history of Orimoto’s challenges conducted during his travels throughout Europe. At every point, he expressed himself through artworks such as “Carrying a Tire,” “Dragging a Bathtub,” “Dragging Many Cloths that are Tied Together,” “Carrying a Clock on the Head,” “Carrying a Chimney-like Sculpture beside a Real Chimney,” and “Carrying a Coffin-like Box Loaded with French Bread.” He employed something inevitably found in each location as the media of his artwork, including goods, living matter, and situations.

If you view his act of “carrying bread on the face” only as the unique character “Bread Man,” your imagination will stops there; but form a different viewpoint, his confident yet enigmatic expression seems to be suggesting something “necessary to us.”

Schedule

Jul 22 (Sat) 2017-Aug 26 (Sat) 2017 

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Location2-30-6 Kamimeguro, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-0051
Access8 minute walk from Nakameguro Station on the Tokyu Toyoko or Hibiya line.
Phone03-3711-4099
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