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The Matrix of Space
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Artists:
Yasufumi Takahashi
Open Studio: March 10th-16th, 2006
On view from March 17th thru May 6th, 2006
Opening Reception and Artist's Talk :
Friday, March 17th, 6-8pm, 2006
Venue :
Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, 555 Broadway,
Basement Floor, New York, NY 10012
[Between Prince/ Spring Sts.]
Gallery
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 11- 6 p.m.
Closed on Mondays. Sundays by appointment.
Admission Policy:
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.
Image:
WOMAN I (artwork for the wall)
Plaster, wood, paint 96" X 96" X 5"
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION is pleased to present "Matrix of Space", a solo exhibition by Takahashi Yasufumi.
Takahashi Yasufumi presently resides and works in Japan. After completing a Master’s degree in Fine Art at University of Tsukuba in 1986,
he continued his study at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He returned to Japan in 1990 and began exhibiting his
sculpture and installation works throughout the country. Since that time, Takahashi's works have been exhibited internationally in France,
Canada and the United States.
Since 1995, Takahashi has explored the ambiguity and interdependency between the body and the world through his large scale installations.
In his work, he often utilizes old clothes, plaster and latex gum as mediums to acknowledge the obscure boundary of the human body and
uncertainty in defining individuality in our modern world.
Through the birth of his child, Takahashi realized the duality of the world; a world that exists not only outside the body, but also on the
inside. His works are premised on a vernacular anthropology in which he traces the descent from the womb that can be interpreted as
representing "The invisible strata of the matrix of bodies" that links a child to mother to grandmother. Such an expansive concept is
visualized in his life-sized sculptures and large-scale installations in which Takahashi compels the viewers to participate.
By reversing the surface of the body and its interior, Takahashi intertwines the world and the body by placing the physical substance as
particles. This presents the body as inseparable to surrounding space.
The exhibition "Matrix of Space" comprises of twelve new sculptural works from Takahashi’s “Section” series and a large scale installation.
The Section series consists of works created from the molding of human bodies made of plaster and cardboard. Among them, there are sculptures
that are reversed, unfolded, and occasionally made transparent. Forcing the viewer to reconcile the gap between the optical result and the
original tactile substance of the human body as they circulate around the objects, Takahashi addresses the notion of "what is to see and being seen."
Takahashi's works add another dimension to the space by incorporating the experience of the viewers, as they move around the object. Seeking
the origins and the possible destinations of human development, the artist speculates about the role of objects and space within our own
experience.
Please contact Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery for further information.
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