Yasuyuki Nishio “EXOTICISM” After three years, Japan has encountered an unpreced
Yasuyuki Nishio “EXOTICISM” After three years, Japan has encountered an unprecedented earthquake catastrophe. Not only the threats of the massive earthquake and following tsunami but this event also left people with the continuing threat of radiation resulted from the collapsed nuclear power generators of the affected region. In the forceful reminder of fateful crisis of the nation, Nishio contemplated his origin and himself as a Japanese. In the latest works in the exhibition, the artist reconsiders Western classical decoration of which nobody questioned the historical superiority, by reversing the concept of exoticism, a perspective of the West as a cultural center to the foreign. This exhibition will feature a sculpture of a tool as an extension of a body in a form of real-scale car in Victorian decoration, a statue of praying woman as a spaceship to seek salvation in space with the visual vocabulary of the time when space was yet to be discovered, and a relief with narrative elements in reference to “Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comic)”, which distortedly evolved from the mixture of Japanese and Western aesthetics, among others. YAMAMOTO GENDAI Tokyo is pleased to announce “Exoticism”, a solo exhibition of new works by Yasuyuki NISHIO. Dates: 14th Apr. - 12th May 2012 Gallery hours: 11:00-19:00 Closed on Sunday, Monday and National holiday Website: YAMAMOTO GENDAI Opening reception: 18:00-20:00 on 14th April. -- source link
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