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Skin and Bone - About Things That Sink into a Gradation
The Sculptor’s House
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Kota Arai, Sherman Fleischer, Jun Kim, Tomotaka Yasui, Hirohiko Akutsu
The "things" which constitute the “space” of a town are constantly changing. Nature changes society changes the sensibilities and lifestyles of the people who live there change. Even the landscape itself changes. Yet what exists within that “space” is not simply *things* that are easily seen or perceived. It is to offer new perspectives on just what might be discovered that Chokokuka no Ie: The Sculptor’s House presents the third installment of The Sculpture of a House in a Town: “Skin and Bones”.
Kota Arai's sculptures formed by molding deerskin fragments against the shapes of his own body provide evidence of his existence as well as the existence of another. They establish a dialogue between life and death between real and relic that questions the reality of the world (and “space”). Sherman Fleischer’s photographs reveal traces of "things" once meaningful but no longer of interest to contemporary society inching us closer to a memory of life that transcends culture and terroir. Jun Kim’s paintings collections of lines and dots emerge from the moment his spirit commits to a different dimension of “space” allowing us a glimpse of a world only he embodies from a screen on which the micro and macro intermingle. The pieces of clothing Tomotaka Yasui creates for his sculptures investigate how we exist within the mediation of “space” and self much as a house serves as the locus for our existence at the intersection and divergence of "things" in the world (space). Hirohiko Akutsu's conception of sculpture is an extension of his work as an anatomist of art. Instead of simply exploring the beauty of materiality he seeks in his work the whereabouts of spirit as it moves through “space”. Using the body’s “skin and bones” as a starting point these artists find new perceptions of and from and through the "things" latent in the world (space) as those very "things" support their spirit and bodies.
*The Sculpture of a House in a Town at Chokokuka no Ie: The Sculptor’s House is a project of renovating a 50-year-old house in the city of Takamatsu in Kagawa prefecture to make the house itself a sculpture in which exhibitions and artworks can become an archive of the changes in the atmosphere of the city.
Kota Arai's sculptures formed by molding deerskin fragments against the shapes of his own body provide evidence of his existence as well as the existence of another. They establish a dialogue between life and death between real and relic that questions the reality of the world (and “space”). Sherman Fleischer’s photographs reveal traces of "things" once meaningful but no longer of interest to contemporary society inching us closer to a memory of life that transcends culture and terroir. Jun Kim’s paintings collections of lines and dots emerge from the moment his spirit commits to a different dimension of “space” allowing us a glimpse of a world only he embodies from a screen on which the micro and macro intermingle. The pieces of clothing Tomotaka Yasui creates for his sculptures investigate how we exist within the mediation of “space” and self much as a house serves as the locus for our existence at the intersection and divergence of "things" in the world (space). Hirohiko Akutsu's conception of sculpture is an extension of his work as an anatomist of art. Instead of simply exploring the beauty of materiality he seeks in his work the whereabouts of spirit as it moves through “space”. Using the body’s “skin and bones” as a starting point these artists find new perceptions of and from and through the "things" latent in the world (space) as those very "things" support their spirit and bodies.
*The Sculpture of a House in a Town at Chokokuka no Ie: The Sculptor’s House is a project of renovating a 50-year-old house in the city of Takamatsu in Kagawa prefecture to make the house itself a sculpture in which exhibitions and artworks can become an archive of the changes in the atmosphere of the city.
Schedule | Feb 28 (Wed) 2024-Mar 9 (Sat) 2024 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://ienoie.info/165b521bd09454 | ||||
| Venue | The Sculptor’s House http://www.ienoie.info/ | ||||
| Location | 2140-3 Tahikamimachi, Takamatsu-shi, Kagawa | ||||
| Access | 15 minute walk from Busshozan Station on the Kotoden Kotohira line; From the Busshozan Station on the Kotoden Kotohira line, take the Kotohira bus and get off at Busshozan Onsesn. The venue is 10 minute walk from there. | ||||
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