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Arata Isozaki: Form and Spirit
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Arata Isozaki
Misa Shin Gallery is pleased to announce Arata Isozaki: Form and Spirit, a solo exhibition by Arata Isozaki from November 2 through December 24, 2022.
This exhibition is based on architecture from the architect’s signature Museum of Modern Art, Gunma of the 1970s, to his works of the 1990s, such as Art Tower Mito. Ex post facto, Isozaki abstracted the fundamental concept behind each project, visualizing the concepts predominantly in drawings and silkscreens.
Beginning from the completed form of architecture and going backward to extract fundamental concepts reveals abstract forms such as the cubes of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, the cylinders and semicylinders seen in the Kitakyushu Central Library and Kamioka Town Hall, the cuboids of the Kitakyushu City Museum of Art, and the regular tetrahedrons of Art Tower Mito. Isozaki’s Reduction series shaves off elements added to the architecture during or after completion, including three-dimensional internal spaces, experiences, and views that only come to life through the intervention of human actors and interactions with the surrounding environment. By reducing the architecture to the state in which the image first took form in the architect’s hands and visualizing that state, Isozaki is also re-interpreting his earlier work.
In addition to the two-dimensional renderings of abstract forms produced by this reduction process, Isozaki has experimented with expressing the forms in three dimensions, presented in this exhibition as 3D prints of Art Tower Mito and Hara Museum ARC. Other exhibits include pastel drawings.
In addition to architecture, during a career spanning more than half a century, Arata Isozaki has explored and applied his creativity to theory, art, design, and theater, transcending genres and periods. This exhibition looks at both the spirit behind his work and some of the forms it can take.
This exhibition is based on architecture from the architect’s signature Museum of Modern Art, Gunma of the 1970s, to his works of the 1990s, such as Art Tower Mito. Ex post facto, Isozaki abstracted the fundamental concept behind each project, visualizing the concepts predominantly in drawings and silkscreens.
Beginning from the completed form of architecture and going backward to extract fundamental concepts reveals abstract forms such as the cubes of the Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, the cylinders and semicylinders seen in the Kitakyushu Central Library and Kamioka Town Hall, the cuboids of the Kitakyushu City Museum of Art, and the regular tetrahedrons of Art Tower Mito. Isozaki’s Reduction series shaves off elements added to the architecture during or after completion, including three-dimensional internal spaces, experiences, and views that only come to life through the intervention of human actors and interactions with the surrounding environment. By reducing the architecture to the state in which the image first took form in the architect’s hands and visualizing that state, Isozaki is also re-interpreting his earlier work.
In addition to the two-dimensional renderings of abstract forms produced by this reduction process, Isozaki has experimented with expressing the forms in three dimensions, presented in this exhibition as 3D prints of Art Tower Mito and Hara Museum ARC. Other exhibits include pastel drawings.
In addition to architecture, during a career spanning more than half a century, Arata Isozaki has explored and applied his creativity to theory, art, design, and theater, transcending genres and periods. This exhibition looks at both the spirit behind his work and some of the forms it can take.
Schedule | Nov 2 (Wed) 2022-Dec 24 (Sat) 2022 Opening Hours Information
Opening Reception Nov 2 (Wed) 2022 18:00 - 20:00 | ||||||
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| Fee | Free | ||||||
| Website | https://www.misashin.com/en/exhibitions-en/arata-isozaki-form-and-spirit/ | ||||||
| Venue | Misa Shin Gallery http://www.misashin.com/ | ||||||
| Location | 1F 3-9-11 Minami Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0047 | ||||||
| Access | 11 minute walk from exit 4 at Shirokane-takanawa Station on the Namboku or Toei Mita line, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Azabu-juban Station on the Namboku or Toei Oedo line, 11 minute walk from exit 1 at Hiroo Station on the Hibiya line. | ||||||
| Phone | 03-6450-2334 | ||||||
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