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Emi Mizukami "If the Accident Will"
Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery
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Emi Mizukami
The title “If the Accident Will” is quoted from Kurt Vonnegut’s science fiction novel, “Slaughterhouse-Five” (1969) which says “I hope that we’ll meet again in a world of peace and freedom in the taxi cab if the accident will.”
In the novel, the main character, Billy, travels through time and space to a forest in Dresden during World War II, a penthouse in postwar America, and a zoo on a planet created by aliens on the planet Tralfamador, and realizes his life with being liberated from free will.
The exhibition consists of eleven paintings and two sculptures. Emi Mizukami’s paintings depict narratives created by quoting, altering, and originalizing images from various regions and periods, which she then paints over several times with sand from the Namib Desert.
First, each of Mizukami's works has a different time-space ≒ verse. In that world, all kinds of narratives, such as the Iliad, One Thousand and One Nights, Chronicles of the Dead, myths and stories from the East and West like Slaughterhouse 5, thought experiments like Buridan’s donkey, rope magic, card games, nuclear weapon(Little boy), dragon tails, etc., are flatly cited, modified and each narrative is composed layer by layer, with some parts painted over by sand and others remaining on the surface. “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (Robert Rauschenberg, 1953) is a work of art in which the drawing is partially erased, leaving traces that are intended to return the original drawing paper to the state in which it was produced. This is intended to return the original drawing paper to the state in which it was produced.
The title of this exhibition was initially proposed as “Poo-tee-weet. These are the words uttered by a little bird at the end of the aforementioned “Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death” (1969). The sense of impermanence in which meaningless words destroy the peace of mind and scheduled harmony based on fatalism is a feeling that pervades all of Mizukami's work.
In the novel, the main character, Billy, travels through time and space to a forest in Dresden during World War II, a penthouse in postwar America, and a zoo on a planet created by aliens on the planet Tralfamador, and realizes his life with being liberated from free will.
The exhibition consists of eleven paintings and two sculptures. Emi Mizukami’s paintings depict narratives created by quoting, altering, and originalizing images from various regions and periods, which she then paints over several times with sand from the Namib Desert.
First, each of Mizukami's works has a different time-space ≒ verse. In that world, all kinds of narratives, such as the Iliad, One Thousand and One Nights, Chronicles of the Dead, myths and stories from the East and West like Slaughterhouse 5, thought experiments like Buridan’s donkey, rope magic, card games, nuclear weapon(Little boy), dragon tails, etc., are flatly cited, modified and each narrative is composed layer by layer, with some parts painted over by sand and others remaining on the surface. “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (Robert Rauschenberg, 1953) is a work of art in which the drawing is partially erased, leaving traces that are intended to return the original drawing paper to the state in which it was produced. This is intended to return the original drawing paper to the state in which it was produced.
The title of this exhibition was initially proposed as “Poo-tee-weet. These are the words uttered by a little bird at the end of the aforementioned “Slaughterhouse-Five, or, The Children’s Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death” (1969). The sense of impermanence in which meaningless words destroy the peace of mind and scheduled harmony based on fatalism is a feeling that pervades all of Mizukami's work.
Schedule | Apr 29 (Sat) 2023-May 28 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://ritsukifujisakigallery.com/en/2023/04/26/if-the-accident-will-by-mizukami-emi-from-20230429-to-20230528/ | ||||
| Venue | Ritsuki Fujisaki Gallery http://ritsukifujisakigallery.com/en/ | ||||
| Location | 2-2-10 Higashi Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0004 | ||||
| Access | 1 minute walk from exit B3 at Higashi-nihonbashi Station on the Toei Asakusa line, 4 minute walk from exit C1 at Bakurocho Station on the JR Sobu line, 5 minute walk from exit A3 at Bakuro-yokoyama Station on the Toei Shinjuku line. | ||||
| Phone | 070-4072-2934 | ||||
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