Part 1: 9 Janurary – 28 February
Part 2: 13 March – 25 April
Project Fulfill Art Space (Taipei)
Iida Ryuta (installation view)
Japanese artists born after 1970 and raised in times of mass-production and mass-consumption often tinker with ‘things’ to lighten their sense of presence and meaning, attempting to build new relationships between ‘things’ and their environments. Pointing out the similarities between the artists featured in this show and the 1960s Mono-ha movement, the curator Kaneshima Takahiro also defines the works of this new generation as ‘airy crafts’ and their creators ’21st century Mono-ha artists’.
Part 1 presents the cross-disciplinary practices in diverse media of Iida Ryuta, Kaneuji Teppei and SHIMURABROS. In Part 2, Izumi Keiji and Iwasaki Takahiro collaborate with Taiwanese artists Liu Wen-Hsuan and Lin Kun-ying to fill the space with different ‘materials’.
Information
http://www.pfarts.com/
http://www.fareastcontemporaries.org/project10/index.html
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