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Tatsuo Kawaguchi “Topology of Time”
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Tatsuo Kawaguchi
This exhibition consists of eight works titled Topology from ‘Land and Sea’, created by Tatsuo Kawaguchi in a reexamination 46 years onwards of his representative work Land and Sea from 1970.
The first occasion Land and Sea was exhibited in public was at the 10th Tokyo Biennale: Between Man and Matter, held in 1970 with Yusuke Nakahara as commissioner. 26 works were extracted from photographs that were taken from a fixed-position, recording four boards installed with a rope between the low tide and the high tide area of the Suma Beach in Seto.
Through these photographic works capturing the floating boards swaying in between the boundary line of the land and sea, the viewers recognized the structure of this world which is usually kept below our consciousness. Kawaguchi allowed a part of this vast universe to be visualized through these images, and among the sequences of the phenomenon, he vividly actualized the coherence set within his work by in fact connecting various polarized concept—the visible and invisible, senses and cognition, reality and photography—all interpreted through the word “relation.” Land and Sea is positioned as his monumental work embodying the concept “relation,” which became the leading term for Kawaguchi’s works later on.
The first occasion Land and Sea was exhibited in public was at the 10th Tokyo Biennale: Between Man and Matter, held in 1970 with Yusuke Nakahara as commissioner. 26 works were extracted from photographs that were taken from a fixed-position, recording four boards installed with a rope between the low tide and the high tide area of the Suma Beach in Seto.
Through these photographic works capturing the floating boards swaying in between the boundary line of the land and sea, the viewers recognized the structure of this world which is usually kept below our consciousness. Kawaguchi allowed a part of this vast universe to be visualized through these images, and among the sequences of the phenomenon, he vividly actualized the coherence set within his work by in fact connecting various polarized concept—the visible and invisible, senses and cognition, reality and photography—all interpreted through the word “relation.” Land and Sea is positioned as his monumental work embodying the concept “relation,” which became the leading term for Kawaguchi’s works later on.
Schedule | Sep 10 (Sat) 2016-Oct 1 (Sat) 2016 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Sep 9 (Fri) 2016 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | SNOW Contemporary http://www.snowcontemporary.com/en/  | ||||
| Location | 404 Hayano Bldg., 2-13-12 Nishiazabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031 | ||||
| Access | 8 minute walk from exit 2 at Roppongi Station on the Toei Oedo or Hibiya line, 9 minute walk from exit 5 at Nogizaka Station on the Chiyoda line, 10 minute walk from exit 4 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6427-2511 | ||||
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