Taro Izumi, ←contact, 2016-2017
© Taro Izumi, courtesy of Take Ninagawa, Tokyo.
Taro Izumi
←contact
September 9 – October 2 1, 2017
Hours: 11AM – 7PM
Closed on Sun, Mon, and National Holidays
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 9 , 6-8PM
Take Ninagawa is pleased to announce “←contact,” Taro Izumi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery.
Working primarily with video, Taro Izumi is known for his installations in which paintings, sculptures, performances, moving images, and different agencies and times are nested within each other.
“←contact” will feature a series of sculptures, videos and documentary photographs resulting from a kind of correspondance between Izumi and an Italian furniture upholsterer. In this correspondence, Izumi first created a sculpture, which was then transformed into a chair by the artisan. Izumi in turn altered the chair back into a sculpture, and the process was repeated several times. After undergoing numerous transformations, the final chair will be exhibited alongside a series of sculptures made with the parts that were removed by the artisan each time he turned the object back into a chair. With the artist’s objective of making a sculpture and the artisan’s objective of making a chair nested within a twofold task, the work is ultimately made from the things that escaped the intentions of its creators.
Taro Izumi
Born in 1976, Kanazawa, Japan. Currently based in Tokyo.
Exhibitions this year include “Pan” at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, “Mercedes-Benz Art Scope 2015-2017: Wandering to Wonder” at Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, and “Suddenly a Child” at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, which opens in October .
Upcoming Exhibitions :
Solo Exhibition
Suddenly a Child
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
October 7 , 2017 – Ma rch 2 5 , 201 8
Group Exhibition
Japanorama. New Vision on Art since 1970
Centre Pompidou-Metz
October 18th, 2017 – March 5th, 2018