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Ryoichi Kurokawa “Objectum”
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Ryoichi Kurokawa
Takuro Someya Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the opening of a solo exhibition by audiovisual artist Ryoichi Kurokawa. While based in Berlin, Kurokawa has participated in significant exhibitions in renowned museums and art centers, as well as performed in concerts all over the world. He has also obtained prestigious awards in his field of work, namely the Golden Nica award at Ars Electronica. This will be his very first exhibition held in Japan.
Kurokawa’s works with a wide range of mediums but is most famous for his audiovisual installations usually composed of multiple screens where abstract motifs suddenly appear from a dark and multiply or break away as if being microscopically dissected These images and movements are paired with rippling, throbbing, swiveling sounds that feel as though they are coming from a deep place. The movements that appear on the screen resemble outer space movements of particles, the process of complex chemical reactions, often seeming to be building up to an explosion. In some works, the motifs take on a more visually organic form such as water streams or droplets that move across the screen. Kurokawa’s works visually translate the law of order in elements and the force of energy.
“Objectum” presents three of the artist’s work series; “Oscillating Continuum,” a sculpture piece, “Elementum,” a mixed media series using the method of oshibana (pressed flowers) and “Lttrans,” a diptych digital print series.
The underlying theme in this exhibition is the creation of points of observation between oppositions. All three series are constructed with two planes that share the same structural concept, with the idea of turning dualism into objects. All images in this show are composed of points and lines.
“Oscillating Continuum” is a sculpture first created in 2013. This sculpture is made up of geometric pedestal like a block with two screens on the top surface in opposing directions. The two fields show different dimensions of movements but they don’t intersect except for the horizontal path that keeps the two in equilibrium. However, sometimes stability breaks down and dynamism occurs. “Elementum” and “Lttrans” are both new series created in 2018, presented to the public for the first time in this exhibition. “Elementum” is composed of two different element planes, one by nature print and one by digital print. “Lttrans” is a diptych digital print work where images are generated based on the detected feature point of captured natural plant life, which is then split into two separate prints. It shows confrontational evolutions presented as laminar and turbulent flow. As can be viewed from his works, Kurokawa states that nature is the principle source of inspiration. He notes also that the notion of hybridization lies within all of his works. Hybridization, such as that analogical material and digital treatments are fused into a hybrid state.
Audio and visual concordance is key in Kurokawa’s works. He considers the audio element and visual element as different vectors of a unique piece and insists that they have to both flow together to enter a collision at the same time. Objectum provides visitors with a rare opportunity for a sensory experience, and to witness audio and visual harmony and collision in a space that is composed both of digital and analog elements.
Kurokawa’s works with a wide range of mediums but is most famous for his audiovisual installations usually composed of multiple screens where abstract motifs suddenly appear from a dark and multiply or break away as if being microscopically dissected These images and movements are paired with rippling, throbbing, swiveling sounds that feel as though they are coming from a deep place. The movements that appear on the screen resemble outer space movements of particles, the process of complex chemical reactions, often seeming to be building up to an explosion. In some works, the motifs take on a more visually organic form such as water streams or droplets that move across the screen. Kurokawa’s works visually translate the law of order in elements and the force of energy.
“Objectum” presents three of the artist’s work series; “Oscillating Continuum,” a sculpture piece, “Elementum,” a mixed media series using the method of oshibana (pressed flowers) and “Lttrans,” a diptych digital print series.
The underlying theme in this exhibition is the creation of points of observation between oppositions. All three series are constructed with two planes that share the same structural concept, with the idea of turning dualism into objects. All images in this show are composed of points and lines.
“Oscillating Continuum” is a sculpture first created in 2013. This sculpture is made up of geometric pedestal like a block with two screens on the top surface in opposing directions. The two fields show different dimensions of movements but they don’t intersect except for the horizontal path that keeps the two in equilibrium. However, sometimes stability breaks down and dynamism occurs. “Elementum” and “Lttrans” are both new series created in 2018, presented to the public for the first time in this exhibition. “Elementum” is composed of two different element planes, one by nature print and one by digital print. “Lttrans” is a diptych digital print work where images are generated based on the detected feature point of captured natural plant life, which is then split into two separate prints. It shows confrontational evolutions presented as laminar and turbulent flow. As can be viewed from his works, Kurokawa states that nature is the principle source of inspiration. He notes also that the notion of hybridization lies within all of his works. Hybridization, such as that analogical material and digital treatments are fused into a hybrid state.
Audio and visual concordance is key in Kurokawa’s works. He considers the audio element and visual element as different vectors of a unique piece and insists that they have to both flow together to enter a collision at the same time. Objectum provides visitors with a rare opportunity for a sensory experience, and to witness audio and visual harmony and collision in a space that is composed both of digital and analog elements.
Schedule | Mar 24 (Sat) 2018-Apr 28 (Sat) 2018 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | http://tsca.jp/exhibition/ryoichi-kurokawa/ | ||||
| Venue | Takuro Someya Contemporary Art http://tsca.jp/ | ||||
| Location | 3F, 5F Terrada Art Complex, 1-33-10 Higashi Shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 140-0002 | ||||
| Access | 9 minute walk from exit B at Tennozu Isle Station on the Rinkai line, 10 minute walk from the South exit of Tennozu Isle Station on the Tokyo Monorail line, 9 minute walk from the North exit of Shimbamba Station on the Keikyu line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6804-3018 | ||||
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