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Tomonosuke Kurachi + Yuto Yonemura "NSFS / Endless Lorelei"
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Tomonosuke Kurachi, Yuto Yonemura
Tomonosuke Kurachi was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1997 and is currently enrolled in the Department of Media Imaging, Graduate School of Film and New Media, Tokyo University of the Arts. His recent activities include the group exhibition "P.O.N.D. 2022 - In Doubt / Think About What You Cannot See. 〜(Shibuya Parco) and "Planet Zamza" (former Odaka Bookbinding Industry), as well as being selected as a finalist for the "CAF Award 2022.
In today's age of overflowing moving image content, we are surrounded by a wide variety of images that are being simultaneously aggregated and generated at an accelerated pace to continue to attract our attention, and his work visualizes the violence of this violence. In addition to making the violence visible, viewers may be reminded of their subconscious values and preconceived notions at the moment they recognize the hilarity.
Yuto Yonemura was born in Osaka in 1996 and graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of Art and Design), Department of Arts and Crafts, Integrated Arts and Crafts Course. Based in Kyoto, he has recently exhibited at major urban venues in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo, including the solo exhibition "WE" (COHJU Contemporary Art, 2022) and "Symbolizing the Problem: Sculpture, Body, and Masculinity" (Hotel Inter Room Kyoto, 2022).
His main series of works, "Superhuman Statue," is based on his longing for and interest in overwhelming beings beyond human knowledge, and is created using various materials such as viscosity, stone, FRP, and styrofoam. The sculptures are characterized by their expression as an installation by reconfiguring each sculpture according to the exhibition space as if transforming and combining them.
While sculpture is a massive medium and a technique that forces the viewer to be aware of physicality and masculinity, his sculptures also contain elements of imperfection, delicacy, and weakness through their variability, use of alternative materials such as Styrofoam, and choice of motifs such as the Merikensack. In the background, the artist attempts to counter conventional sculpture by finding the structure of sculpture in the positional relationship between the self and others in everyday life and making it stand up as a group of images.
"Lorelei" in the title of the exhibition is the name of a strange rock that rises in the Rhine River basin in western Germany and is a reference to the legend of a mermaid who lives on the rock and lures sailors with her beautiful singing voice, causing them to go missing one after another.
Yonemura is responsible for the overall spatial composition of the exhibition, while Kurachi is responsible for the video works, and the works are intermingled on each floor.
On the top floor, Yonemura will present a new work of love songs and large sculptures, one of his important activities in recent years, as well as a new video work by Kurachi, a new experiment. The entire space will be developed according to an experimental theme.
Yonemura says, "My sculptures sometimes exist as silhouettes, and may or may not be related to Kurachi's works," but the signs of their existence are somewhat like folklore, as each piece has its own independent story hidden in the background, and their work is not as a theater but as a deconstructed and reconstructed group of works. The hint that their works are not theater but a group of images that have been deconstructed and reconstructed.
In today's age of overflowing moving image content, we are surrounded by a wide variety of images that are being simultaneously aggregated and generated at an accelerated pace to continue to attract our attention, and his work visualizes the violence of this violence. In addition to making the violence visible, viewers may be reminded of their subconscious values and preconceived notions at the moment they recognize the hilarity.
Yuto Yonemura was born in Osaka in 1996 and graduated from Kyoto University of Art and Design (now Kyoto University of Art and Design), Department of Arts and Crafts, Integrated Arts and Crafts Course. Based in Kyoto, he has recently exhibited at major urban venues in Kyoto, Osaka, and Tokyo, including the solo exhibition "WE" (COHJU Contemporary Art, 2022) and "Symbolizing the Problem: Sculpture, Body, and Masculinity" (Hotel Inter Room Kyoto, 2022).
His main series of works, "Superhuman Statue," is based on his longing for and interest in overwhelming beings beyond human knowledge, and is created using various materials such as viscosity, stone, FRP, and styrofoam. The sculptures are characterized by their expression as an installation by reconfiguring each sculpture according to the exhibition space as if transforming and combining them.
While sculpture is a massive medium and a technique that forces the viewer to be aware of physicality and masculinity, his sculptures also contain elements of imperfection, delicacy, and weakness through their variability, use of alternative materials such as Styrofoam, and choice of motifs such as the Merikensack. In the background, the artist attempts to counter conventional sculpture by finding the structure of sculpture in the positional relationship between the self and others in everyday life and making it stand up as a group of images.
"Lorelei" in the title of the exhibition is the name of a strange rock that rises in the Rhine River basin in western Germany and is a reference to the legend of a mermaid who lives on the rock and lures sailors with her beautiful singing voice, causing them to go missing one after another.
Yonemura is responsible for the overall spatial composition of the exhibition, while Kurachi is responsible for the video works, and the works are intermingled on each floor.
On the top floor, Yonemura will present a new work of love songs and large sculptures, one of his important activities in recent years, as well as a new video work by Kurachi, a new experiment. The entire space will be developed according to an experimental theme.
Yonemura says, "My sculptures sometimes exist as silhouettes, and may or may not be related to Kurachi's works," but the signs of their existence are somewhat like folklore, as each piece has its own independent story hidden in the background, and their work is not as a theater but as a deconstructed and reconstructed group of works. The hint that their works are not theater but a group of images that have been deconstructed and reconstructed.
Schedule | Jan 27 (Fri) 2023-Feb 19 (Sun) 2023 Opening Hours Information
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| Fee | Free | ||||
| Website | https://eukaryote.jp/en/exhibition/nsfs/ | ||||
| Venue | Eukaryote http://eukaryote.jp/en/ | ||||
| Location | 3-41-3 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 155-0001 | ||||
| Access | 5 minute walk from exit 3 at Gaienmae Station on the Ginza line, 13 minute walk from exit 5 at Meiji-jingumae Station on the Chiyoda and Fukutoshin lines, 15 minute walk from the Takeshita exit of Harajuku Station on the JR Yamanote line. | ||||
| Phone | 080-9524-6981 | ||||
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