New Permanent Installations to Debut at Hara Museum ARC (Gunma)

Following the work Landscape by Federico Herrero installed last year, three new installations will debut at Hara Museum ARC.

The work Kokoro (“mind” or “heart” in Japanese) by Jean-Michel Othoniel (on view from mid-September) will be installed near the museum entrance. Red Murano glass is used for this large-scale installation, through which the visitors can enter the museum.


Jean-Michel Othoniel, drawing for Kokoro

Jean-Michel Othoniel
Jean-Michel Othoniel was born in 1964 in Saint-Etienne, France. From the 1980s, he made his art using materials that had the property of change, such as sulfur, lead, beeswax and water. From 1993, he began incorporating glass as one of his main materials. He has been critically recognized for the decorative and sensual aspects of his creations and has had solo exhibitions at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (2003) and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris (2007). His work has appeared at international exhibitions such as the 10th Istanbul Biennial (2007), as well as in group exhibitions. In Japan, his work was included in the group exhibition at the Hara Museum called Too French (in 1991, for which he stayed in Tokyo for about three weeks to create his artwork on-site) and a group exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (2006). He currently lives in Paris. http://www.galerieperrotin.com/

Olafur Eliasson has been preparing his installation Sunspace for Shibukawa (on view from mid-October) since his solo exhibition at the Hara Museum. Housed in an outdoor dome-shaped facility, the installation produces a rainbow that changes as the sun moves. It will be installed on the east side of the museum.

Olafur Eliasson, sketch for Sunspace for Shibukawa

OlafurEliasson
Olafur Eliasson was born in Copenhagen in 1967 and studied at Copenhagen’s Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from 1989 to 1995. He has won critical acclaim for work that manipulate natural elements such as light, water, wind, smells and temperature to play on our perceptions. His work has been featured in many international art exhibitions, including the Sydney Biennale (1998), São Paulo Biennale (1998), Carnegie International (1999/2000), Venice Biennale (1995, 2003, 2005) and the Yokohama Triennale (2001) in Japan, and in numerous solo exhibitions at major museums throughout the world. In 2005-2006, his exhibition Olafur Eliasson: Your light shadow was held at the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art. Last year, he attracted much attention for an art project in New York City for which he created four waterfalls. He currently lives in Berlin. http://www.olafureliasson.net/

Lee Bul’s work Infinity (tentative title) will be on view in October. Lee Bul is known for works which express her concern for the human body. For this installation, she will make use of a light box. The work is scheduled to be installed at the museum entrance.

Lee Bul
Lee Bul was born in Yeongwol, Korea in 1964. She graduated with a degree in sculpture from Hongik University in 1987. In addition to performance, Lee Bul makes three-dimensional works using a variety of materials such as silicon, glass beads and ceramic–works that are artificial and richly ornamental, and which express her concern for the human body. She has held solo exhibitions at major art museums throughout the world, such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA) (1997) and the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain (2007-2008). In Japan, she has held solo exhibitions at the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (2000), Japan Foundation Forum (2003) and other venues. As the Korean representative at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999), she received an honorable mention. She currently lives in Seoul.
http://www.leebul.com/

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