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Asako Ishizaki + Kazuki Oishi “Depth of street”
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Asako Ishizaki + Kazuki Oishi
This exhibition is a two-person show by sculptor Kazutaka Oishi and artist Asako Ishizaki.
At the Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition in March 2021, Ishizaki presented a work entitled “Walking on the Surface of the City,” in which she focused on the tags (a type of graffiti, mainly indicating the signatures of writers) that are deployed on the streets of Shibuya, one of Japan’s busiest shopping areas. The work, “Connecting and Walking on the Surface of the City,” focused on the tags (=tagging, a type of graffiti, mainly indicating the signatures of artists) deployed on the streets. Ishizaki captured the wall on which the tags are drawn, or “surface” as he calls it, as a line on the ground seen from a bird’s eye view, or as an outline of the sky seen from the perspective of an insect on the street, and reconstructed it into another perspective of the city using the vivid blue color image of the sky.
Oishi has been creating sculptures, videos, and installations using the elements and phenomena that compose materials and things as mediums, and has been examining the reality of narrative space caused by these compositions. By assuming that “sand,” “dust,” and “humidity” are the materials that compose sculptures, he created an installation using raw clay with “stone monument” as a motif to show the minute correlations and causal relationships in the space related to them. FAS curator Satsuki Kamata describes Oishi’s work in the exhibition record book as follows: “Oishi’s works are often seen in the open air. “The monuments that we often see in the open air have local origins, historical events, or words of praise for great people who have contributed to the city. However, it would be better to leave a smaller event (a bucket shop makes money when the wind blows) as a weak monument using clay, a material weaker than stone.” This work expresses Oishi’s attitude toward creation, questioning the meaning of materials and things inscribed on them. The things that Oishi finds in the material are events that are so minuscule that they cannot be demonstrated, and can be said to be weak events but different from opacity.
The two artists seem to share a persistent suspicion and transformation of the object of their work on the “street”, and the “Street Observation Society”, formed in 1986 by Genpei Akasegawa, Terunobu Fujimori, and others, may have been searching for a contemporary that was overlooked on the street.
At the Musashino Art University Graduation Exhibition in March 2021, Ishizaki presented a work entitled “Walking on the Surface of the City,” in which she focused on the tags (a type of graffiti, mainly indicating the signatures of writers) that are deployed on the streets of Shibuya, one of Japan’s busiest shopping areas. The work, “Connecting and Walking on the Surface of the City,” focused on the tags (=tagging, a type of graffiti, mainly indicating the signatures of artists) deployed on the streets. Ishizaki captured the wall on which the tags are drawn, or “surface” as he calls it, as a line on the ground seen from a bird’s eye view, or as an outline of the sky seen from the perspective of an insect on the street, and reconstructed it into another perspective of the city using the vivid blue color image of the sky.
Oishi has been creating sculptures, videos, and installations using the elements and phenomena that compose materials and things as mediums, and has been examining the reality of narrative space caused by these compositions. By assuming that “sand,” “dust,” and “humidity” are the materials that compose sculptures, he created an installation using raw clay with “stone monument” as a motif to show the minute correlations and causal relationships in the space related to them. FAS curator Satsuki Kamata describes Oishi’s work in the exhibition record book as follows: “Oishi’s works are often seen in the open air. “The monuments that we often see in the open air have local origins, historical events, or words of praise for great people who have contributed to the city. However, it would be better to leave a smaller event (a bucket shop makes money when the wind blows) as a weak monument using clay, a material weaker than stone.” This work expresses Oishi’s attitude toward creation, questioning the meaning of materials and things inscribed on them. The things that Oishi finds in the material are events that are so minuscule that they cannot be demonstrated, and can be said to be weak events but different from opacity.
The two artists seem to share a persistent suspicion and transformation of the object of their work on the “street”, and the “Street Observation Society”, formed in 1986 by Genpei Akasegawa, Terunobu Fujimori, and others, may have been searching for a contemporary that was overlooked on the street.
Schedule | Sep 17 (Fri) 2021-Sep 26 (Sun) 2021 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Venue | Walla | ||||
| Location | 615-29, Nakamachi, Kodaira-shi, Tokyo 187-0042 | ||||
| Access | 10 minute walk from Ome-Kaido Station on the Seibu Tamako line, 10 minute walk from the North exit of Hitotsubashi-gakuen Station on the Seibu Tamako line, 17 minute walk from Shin-Kodaira Station on the JR Musashino line. | ||||
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