TAKE NINAGAWA IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
ITS PARTICIPATION IN FRIEZE NEW YORK
MAY 4 -7, 2012.
BOOTH: #R14
EXHIBITING ARTIST:
SHINRO OHTAKE
Shinro Ohtake, Time Memory 6, 2011, Oil, acrylic, ink, ballpoint pen, pencil, vinyl, plastic tape, adhesive cellophane tape, glue, printed matter, rice paper, wrapping paper, recycled paper, brown paper and cardboard, 100 x 70 cm
Frame
Shinro Ohtake
Time Memory
Take Ninagawa
Stand R14
In his sensitivity to chance operations, volume, texture, and form, Shinro Ohtake articulates a performative approach to materials that collapses the spaces between pictorial composition, sculpture, installation, and archive. His lifework is an ongoing series of “Scrap Books,” begun in 1977. Now numbering 67 in total, these books are filled with unique collages of found ephemera and photographs, drawings, and paintings, and range in size from 50 to 882 pages, assuming sculptural properties.
In these and other projects, Ohtake radically separates images from their semantic connotations, turning them into material as such and confronting the inherent heterogeneity of everything that exists in the world, even mass-produced goods.
For Frame, he has produced a new body of collages, “Time Memory,” incorporating direct mail pamphlets, packaging and other unsolicited printed materials that arrive daily to his home. For Ohtake, each of these pamphlets represents a different materialization of time, produced at different periods and in different places.
Arranging these fragments of time into overlapping layers, he has created timescapes from which, in an almost archaeological way, the “memory of time” can be extracted.
Born 1955
Lives Uwajima and Tokyo, Japan
Shinro Ohtake is one of Japan’s leading contemporary artists. His practice extends from drawing, painting, and collage to sculpture, architecture, music, and writing. He is represented in major Japanese and international collections including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; MoMA, New York; and Benesse Art Site Naoshima/Fukutake Art Museum Foundation.