Motohiro Tomii "Sculptures"

Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts

Finished

Artists

Motohiro Tomii

Multicolored super balls, sticky notes, colored pencils, paper clips, thumbtacks, origami paper, copy paper, cardboard, hammers, and various other office supplies and tools can be piled up, arranged, stacked, bundled, bent, stood up, laid down, and tilted. By adding such simple everyday actions, Motohiro Tomii (born in 1973) liberates the original meaning and function from ready-made objects and reveals a new aspect as a one-of-a-kind sculpture. forward.

Mass-produced consumer goods are modified from objects to works while retaining their original forms and colors, even though they are stripped of their basic functions by Tomii. This transformation also serves as a metaphor for the process by which individuals are freed from their roles in social systems. In addition, the economic process of production, distribution, consumption, and disposal (death) is neutrally stopped, and the uniqueness of works of art, which have processes of production, exhibition, consumption, and preservation (immortality), is highlighted.

In this way, the activity of the sculptor and the passivity of the viewer are opened neutrally, and the museum, home, school, and office emerge as equivalent, non-functional places of freedom. Focusing on the new works by Motohiro Tomii, which convinces anyone of the possibility of becoming a sculptor through a system in which household goods, stationery, and office supplies are transformed into sculptures, and sculptures are returned to the world of life. This exhibition will showcase 9 series, 45 items, and 2800 "sculptures."

Schedule

Jul 8 (Sat) 2023-Sep 3 (Sun) 2023