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Taki Tamada "Cardboard Tales"
Hiratsuka Museum of Art
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Taki Tamada
Taki Tamada (born in 1983 in Hyogo Prefecture) graduated from the Department of Plastic Arts, Faculty of Art and Design, Tama Art University, and has been creating three-dimensional works using waste paper cardboard that uniquely capture the beauty and nature of the creatures' forms. She has been active in a wide range of activities, including domestic and international exhibitions, window displays, TV media, video distribution, and workshops.
As the Sustainable Development Goals have become a social theme in recent years, corrugated cardboard is attracting attention as an excellent material that is 100% recyclable. Fascinated by the strength and flexibility of used cardboard, the artist has been creating three-dimensional works using cardboard as a material for more than 15 years. The artist's production method is unique: instead of using corrugated cardboard as it is, he reduces it to pulp and forms it into a clay-like material. The artist breathes life into the cardboard, which would normally be thrown away, by reviving it as a work of art. To avoid damaging the material's texture, Tamada does not use coloring but rather utilizes the colors of the corrugated cardboard. Her motifs include dinosaurs, elephants, giraffes, orangutans, whales, and many other creatures.
In recent years, the artist has turned his attention to ecological and environmental issues, using endangered species as motifs, and expresses the gender gap and other issues symbolic of modern society from the perspective of living creatures. In addition, the artist strives to create artworks that visitors can appreciate not only by looking at them but also by experiencing them. In particular, based on her own experience of raising children, she has created a mechanism that allows visitors as young as 0 years old to appreciate her works.
This exhibition, her first solo exhibition at a public museum in the Kanto region, will feature approximately 130 works of various kinds of inanimate objects, from land to underwater.
As the Sustainable Development Goals have become a social theme in recent years, corrugated cardboard is attracting attention as an excellent material that is 100% recyclable. Fascinated by the strength and flexibility of used cardboard, the artist has been creating three-dimensional works using cardboard as a material for more than 15 years. The artist's production method is unique: instead of using corrugated cardboard as it is, he reduces it to pulp and forms it into a clay-like material. The artist breathes life into the cardboard, which would normally be thrown away, by reviving it as a work of art. To avoid damaging the material's texture, Tamada does not use coloring but rather utilizes the colors of the corrugated cardboard. Her motifs include dinosaurs, elephants, giraffes, orangutans, whales, and many other creatures.
In recent years, the artist has turned his attention to ecological and environmental issues, using endangered species as motifs, and expresses the gender gap and other issues symbolic of modern society from the perspective of living creatures. In addition, the artist strives to create artworks that visitors can appreciate not only by looking at them but also by experiencing them. In particular, based on her own experience of raising children, she has created a mechanism that allows visitors as young as 0 years old to appreciate her works.
This exhibition, her first solo exhibition at a public museum in the Kanto region, will feature approximately 130 works of various kinds of inanimate objects, from land to underwater.
Schedule | Jun 24 (Sat) 2023-Sep 10 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Adults ¥700, University and High School Students ¥500, Junior High School Students and Under, Persons with Disability Certificates + 1 Companion free. | ||||
| Website | https://www.city.hiratsuka.kanagawa.jp/art-muse/20162006_00030.html | ||||
| Venue | Hiratsuka Museum of Art | ||||
| Location | 1-3-3 Nishiyawata, Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa 254-0073 | ||||
| Access | 20 minute walk from the North exit of Hiratsuka Station on the JR Tokaido line; From the North exit of JR Hiratsuka Station, take the Kanagawa Chuo Kotsu bus and get off at Bijutsukan Iriguchi. | ||||
| Phone | 0463-35-2111 | ||||
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