Posts Tagged ‘sculpture’
The 2012 Aqua Metropolis Osaka Festival offered a series of delights, including a giant inflatable kokeshi doll produced by the artist collective Yotta Groove. There’s something both benign and menacing about the cute blankness of the kokeshi doll when it’s magnified to kaiju proportions. Yotta Groove wasn’t the only collective active at the Aqua Metropolis […]
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(Laurel Roth and friends at the Frey Norris Gallery in San Francisco.) I’m infinitely delighted to have had a chance to interview sculptor and assemblage artist Laurel Roth in anticipation of her first solo show in Japan, entitled “Supernatural,” which opens on July 12th at the Megumi Ogita Gallery in Tokyo. Trane: Could you tell […]
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Tags: animal skull, assemblage, biological forms, Birds of Paradise, food, Laurel Roth, Man's Best Friend, sculpture
Tower of the Sun
This year marks the 100th year anniversary of the birth of Okamoto Taro, the creator of Osaka’s Tower of the Sun (太陽の塔), who is famous for proclaiming that “Art is explosion!” The Tower of the Sun was the centerpiece of the 1970 World Exposition in Osaka and to mark the anniversary of Okamoto’s birth the […]
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I ran into this amazing film about the 1975 San Francisco Artists’ Soapbox Derby on Boing Boing and I think it’s an incredible document about the potential transformation of public space that’s allowed when art becomes a communal undertaking and the axis of aesthetic attention is moved outside of the confining walls of the museum. […]
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the 2007 Kobe Biennale
November 23rd was the last day of the 2009 Kobe Biennale, which I went to visit last week. The Biennale is held at the waterfront site of Meriken Park, under the shadow of Kobe’s famous Port Tower and right next to the Maritime Museum. Because Kobe is historically a port city, the organizers of the […]
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