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Tomoaki Ishihara
Tomoaki Ishihara has been working on "self-portraits" for many years, using a variety of materials and techniques. In 2016, he digitized his own head hair and reconstructed it as an abstract painting in "Extensions, Minerals, and Me." He gave the data of his head hair a canvas as a new body. In the same solo exhibition, Ishihara cut his 3D scanned body into several pieces and reconstructed each part as a three-dimensional piece by layering sliced plates.
This exhibition is a further development and expansion of this project from five years ago, and has been named "Flies and Frankenstein". In the new work of the "corpus" series, larger body parts are directly output by a 3D printer and piled up haphazardly. As the name of the exhibition suggests, the newly given bodies remind us of the myth of the artificial man, created by the mad scientist Frankenstein by piecing together human corpses. As if flocking to the living corpse, photograms taken from the corpse of a fly are also displayed alongside "corpus". In addition, "Ectoplasm," a series of leather sculptures that he has been creating since the 1990s as an extension of his body, will be added to the exhibition. These oddly shaped sculptures are also made from the skins of dead animals, and the way they are used is shown through photographs of them actually "attached" to Ishihara's own body. Again, the connection between death and life is shown. All of the work is colored with images of the body and death, but Ishihara refers to them as the residue of the aesthetics established by modern art history, the corpse of modernism. When the works as zombies acquire a new body and stand up on their own, another horizon of art toward the future also rises up.
This exhibition is a further development and expansion of this project from five years ago, and has been named "Flies and Frankenstein". In the new work of the "corpus" series, larger body parts are directly output by a 3D printer and piled up haphazardly. As the name of the exhibition suggests, the newly given bodies remind us of the myth of the artificial man, created by the mad scientist Frankenstein by piecing together human corpses. As if flocking to the living corpse, photograms taken from the corpse of a fly are also displayed alongside "corpus". In addition, "Ectoplasm," a series of leather sculptures that he has been creating since the 1990s as an extension of his body, will be added to the exhibition. These oddly shaped sculptures are also made from the skins of dead animals, and the way they are used is shown through photographs of them actually "attached" to Ishihara's own body. Again, the connection between death and life is shown. All of the work is colored with images of the body and death, but Ishihara refers to them as the residue of the aesthetics established by modern art history, the corpse of modernism. When the works as zombies acquire a new body and stand up on their own, another horizon of art toward the future also rises up.
Schedule | Dec 4 (Sat) 2021-Dec 29 (Wed) 2021 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://mem-inc.jp/2021/12/05/ishihara_2021_en/ | ||||
| Venue | MEM http://mem-inc.jp/index_e | ||||
| Location | NADiff A/P/A/R/T 3F, 1-18-4 Ebisu Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0013 | ||||
| Access | 6 minute walk from the East exit of Ebisu Station on the JR Yamanote and Saikyo lines. 7 minute walk from exit 1 at Ebisu Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||
| Phone | 03-6459-3205 | ||||
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