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Takao Inoue “La Petite Voix”
Node Hotel
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Takao Inoue
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, tulips with mottled petals were a prized rarity selling for as much as 100 million yen each in today’s value, and triggering the first ever global economic bubble, starting in Holland. When in the twentieth century this variation was found to be caused by a virus, in a complete reversal, trading of the flowers was prohibited. Any discovered were discarded, dubbed “broken” tulips, that even if they did exist in the world, could no longer.
Whenever some movement flows inordinately far in one direction, an opposing force will arise, in an attempt to rectify the situation. Since 2014, three years after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, believing that this correction occurs equally in the case of geographical movements such as typhoons and earthquakes; the expression, film and fashion produced by people living in different communities, and plants, Takao Inoue has been sealing objects in acrylic. In the process, with a frequency impossible to ignore he has encountered in Tokyo misshapen dandelions, an experience that has prompted him to collect plants that have been thrown away, and flowers with an obvious will to survive, channeling Rachel Carson in Silent Spring, or the researchers who reported on deformities in flora and fauna around Chernobyl.
Will things that disappear – left behind, ignored by the world’s larger, more dramatic movements – be accepted and permitted to exist as art that endures, that does not disappear in short order? From works capturing a 360-degree perspective, Inoue endeavors to disentangle the cramped confines of existence itself in multidimensional ways.
Whenever some movement flows inordinately far in one direction, an opposing force will arise, in an attempt to rectify the situation. Since 2014, three years after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, believing that this correction occurs equally in the case of geographical movements such as typhoons and earthquakes; the expression, film and fashion produced by people living in different communities, and plants, Takao Inoue has been sealing objects in acrylic. In the process, with a frequency impossible to ignore he has encountered in Tokyo misshapen dandelions, an experience that has prompted him to collect plants that have been thrown away, and flowers with an obvious will to survive, channeling Rachel Carson in Silent Spring, or the researchers who reported on deformities in flora and fauna around Chernobyl.
Will things that disappear – left behind, ignored by the world’s larger, more dramatic movements – be accepted and permitted to exist as art that endures, that does not disappear in short order? From works capturing a 360-degree perspective, Inoue endeavors to disentangle the cramped confines of existence itself in multidimensional ways.
Schedule | Oct 22 (Fri) 2021-Nov 14 (Sun) 2021 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||
| Venue | Node Hotel | ||
| Location | 461 Toroyama-cho, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 604-8225 | ||
| Access | 6 minute walk from exit 24 at Karasuma Station on the Hankyu line, 6 minute walk from exit 2 at Shijo Station on the Karasuma subway line, 11 minute walk from exit 6 at Karasuma Oike Station on the Karasuma and Tozai subway lines. | ||
| Phone | 075-221-8800 | ||
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