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Takuro Tamayama “Dirty Palace”
Calm & Punk Gallery
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Takuro Tamayama
Takuro Tamayama’s spaces seemingly materialize out of thin air, alternately akin to a metasearch engine rapidly uncovering long-lost images, or a rocking cradle that slowly but surely reveals an undifferentiated visual array with each oscillation. This hybrid sense of speed precludes the viewer’s objectivity, yet simultaneously suggests an omnipresent entity, dislocated on another dimension with a distant bird’s-eye view on our lives. In these dreamlike spaces, one is overcome with the sensation that the soft fabric of grid-like spacetime warps ever so gently.
These dimensional deformations are somehow familiar- like the color bar test patterns seared into television screens when the airwaves fall silent between late-night broadcasts, or perhaps the constant repetitive rotations that constitute a Rubik’s Cube in the interstices between solid block form- the layering of these methodically orderly images seemingly primed to produce a moiré effect.
Located between the antonymic poles of reassuring nostalgia and utter discomfort, this distortion may not be so soft, after all: not a simple wrinkle in the continuum, but rather a sharp sheared expansive cross-section. The pristine pre-made furniture in Clean House is a study in contrasts, perhaps proving to be the mirror image of a Dirty Palace on the opposite shore of light and shadow. The crux of Tamayama’s work is singular: space itself.
These dimensional deformations are somehow familiar- like the color bar test patterns seared into television screens when the airwaves fall silent between late-night broadcasts, or perhaps the constant repetitive rotations that constitute a Rubik’s Cube in the interstices between solid block form- the layering of these methodically orderly images seemingly primed to produce a moiré effect.
Located between the antonymic poles of reassuring nostalgia and utter discomfort, this distortion may not be so soft, after all: not a simple wrinkle in the continuum, but rather a sharp sheared expansive cross-section. The pristine pre-made furniture in Clean House is a study in contrasts, perhaps proving to be the mirror image of a Dirty Palace on the opposite shore of light and shadow. The crux of Tamayama’s work is singular: space itself.
Schedule | Nov 10 (Sat) 2018-Nov 27 (Tue) 2018 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Nov 9 (Fri) 2018 19:00 - 22:00 | ||||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | http://calmandpunk.com/en/exhibition/takuro-tamayama-solo-show-dirty-palace-2/ | ||||||
| Venue | Calm & Punk Gallery http://www.calmandpunk.com | ||||||
| Location | 1F Asai Bldg., 1-15-15 Nishi-Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031 | ||||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 12 minute walk from exit 7 at Roppongi Station on the Hibiya or Toei Oedo line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-5775-0825 | ||||||
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