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[Image: Shinro Ohtake, Mnemoscape 1, 2019 © Shinro Ohtake, courtesy of Take Ninagawa, Tokyo, photo by Kei Okano]

Shinro Ohtake “Mnemoscape”

Take Ninagawa

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Artists

Shinro Ohtake

Through his assemblages, collages, drawings, mixed-media paintings, sculptures, architectural projects, experimental films, and noise music, Shinro Ohtake (b. 1955) has carried out a sustained interrogation of contemporary cultural production and its modes of circulation and reception. The formal engine of Ohtake’s practice is his ongoing “Scrapbooks” project, begun in 1977, in which scraps of ephemera and found materials are pasted into dense, quasi-sculptural books that also function as archival repositories of the artist’s world. Made with thick accretions of oil paint mixed with marble powder, sand, gravel, and other materials, and incorporating three-dimensional structures, Ohtake’s newest series, “Mnemoscape”—pieces from which will be on view in this exhibition—is driven by a search for what he refers to as “the scenes that remain at the end of memory.” Changing appearance according to the surrounding light and the viewer’s perspective, the works shift between flat painting, receding vitrine, and projecting architectural model. They identify the point where the limits of preservation prompt creative invention.

*This exhibition is part of Art Week Tokyo.

Schedule

Oct 30 (Sat) 2021-Dec 18 (Sat) 2021