Title: contact
Authors: Haruka Kojin, Kenji minamigawa, Hirofumi Masui
Venue: Tokyo Mori Art Museum
Introduction: Haruka Kojin, Kenji minamigawa and Hirofumi Masui are the creators of the amazing wave installation at the Mori Museum of art in Tokyo. An incredibly realistic work called "contact" looks like a real water body, expanding and surging towards the viewer.
Japanese artists have created an amazing wave installation at the Tokyo Art Museum. The incredible real work looks like a real water body, swelling and surging.
Sculpture wave is a series of contemporary art exhibitions in the art museum. This epic dark blue work is illuminated by the natural sunlight coming in from the window behind it, creating a mottled light that changes all day long. The device mimics the ocean so perfectly that if it wasn't for the gallery walls, you might expect it to flow out and flood the whole room.
Date of create：May 26, 2019.
Authors : Alex chinneck
Title: six pins and half a dozen needs
Introduction: a "dangerous building" appears in the assembly London Park in Hammersmith, southwest of London. The 12 meter high red brick exterior wall is split in two from the middle and is crumbling. This is actually the latest installation work "six pins and half a dozen needs" by British artist Alex chinneck, which will become a permanent landmark here.
According to the artist, the work is an extension of the publishing history of the park in the past 200 years. The hard wall is torn in half like paper, like a thunderbolt from the sky, cutting the red brick wall of the building, creating a kind of conflict and opposition. At the same time, it also has a sense of repair, which is also a tribute to the predecessor of the building. For his first permanent installation work "six pins and half a dozen needs", chinneck said: "this work is designed to inspire people and make them feel interesting. I sincerely hope that it will become a popular landmark in the city of London and provide a positive experience for the people of London. The work took 14 months to complete. The artist used several months to study the torn patterns, digitized the crack scanning, and sent 5000 pieces of red bricks to the brick manufacturer for customization. In cooperation with the cutter and structural engineer, the cut bricks were embedded in the steel frame and bolted to the building wall. More than 1000 pieces of stainless steel components were used.
At the age of 33, Alex chinneck is one of the youngest members of the Royal Society of sculptors. He has always been famous for his works full of surrealism and the combination of architecture and sculpture. He often "teases" urban landmarks or old buildings, so that people can have a new sensory experience of the environment around them.
Date of create： 1 August 2017
Title: The fallen
Authors: Andy moss and Jamie Wadley
Introduction: British artists Andy moss and Jamie Wadley, the sand in your eyes made this incredible and powerful visual display on the landing beach of aromans, France. They developed this concept, called the fallen, to commemorate the international day of peace (September 21) and remind people of what can happen without peace. Andy moss and Jamie Wadley's powerful art installation represents the soldiers who died in Normandy landing on June 6, 1944. On the beach of Normandy, the bodies of 9000 civilians, German soldiers and allied soldiers were overturned on the beach.
Date of create：2017
Title:The six forgotten giants of Denmark
Author: Thomas dambo
Setting: R ó dovre, Hvidovre, vallensb æ K, ISH ó J, albertlund and H ó JE Taastrup
Introduction: Copenhagen artist Thomas Danbo shows his work of art as an outdoor game for children and adults. And the ultimate goal of this game is to find the treasure hidden in the wonderful forest creatures. You can find them on the game map and on the cue symbols. In this seemingly simple and casual form, the artist actually wants to draw people's attention to the problems of handling materials and taking care of the environment.
The exhibits consist of old wooden pallets, demolished mills, shacks, fences, all of which should have been in the dump. This is not the first time an artist has brought such works. He used to use recycled materials to make some works of art. The names of the six sculptures are little tilde, Teddy friendly, Thomas on the mountain, Oscar under the bridge, hill top trine and sleeping Louis. They are distributed secretly in the woods of Denmark. Each sculpture is hand-made by dambo and the volunteer team, using materials from fallen trees and dilapidated buildings in the woods. Each of these giants is unique, and people can interact with them. For example, little tilde has 28 nests hidden in its stomach, and sleeping Louis has the most open one, so people can visit and play.
Date of create：2014
Title: The key in the hand 2015
Venue: Japan Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale
Author: Chiharu Shiota
Introduction: Japan's contribution to the 56th Venice Biennale is an exhibition entitled "keys in hand" by artist Chiharu Shiota. Planned by Hitoshi Nakano, Chiharu Shiota in Berlin created a large installation, and the whole exhibition space was filled with red yams. Hanging at the end of each yam, hanging from the ceiling, is a key. There are two boats on the floor under the yam and the hanging key.
Curator Hitoshi Nakano explained: "in our daily life, keys protect our house, assets, personal safety and other valuable things. When we use the keys, we will embrace them with warm hands. Through daily contact with people's warmth, the key has accumulated countless, multi-level memories, which are deeply hidden in our hearts. And then at some point, we fill our keys with memories and entrust them to someone we trust to look after things that are important to us. In this work, Shiota will use the key as a medium to convey our true feelings. In addition, she will place the two boats in the center of the yarn and key, hanging from the ceiling to the floor space. These boats symbolize two hands grasping the rain of memory (countless keys) pouring down from the ceiling. As they struggle, work with their hands and collect personal memories, they will move forward in a huge ocean of memories. "
Date of create：2015
Title: Celia
Author: Jordi D í EZ fern á ndez
Introduction: Jordi D í EZ fern á ndez, a Spanish artist, is famous for his large-scale metal sculptures. Recently, he created an abstract outdoor large-scale metal head portrait, named "Celia", with the image of his wife as the element. The artist perfectly combines the cold texture of steel with the warm feeling of the portrait, showing a beautiful image in a complex way. In addition, the sculpture is 2.5 meters high, and its powerful structure stands in the open field, which is particularly majestic and eye-catching. Jordi well captures the features of his wife's face. Although it is vivid, it has no hair part. To this end, the artist explains, "in fact, my wife and son have beautiful hair!"
Fragmented sculpture expresses human emotion and power | Jordi D í EZ fern á ndez, sculptor of Barcelona
Date of create：2018
Title: an oak tree
Author: Michael Craig Martin born 1941
Media: glass, water, shelves and printed text
Introduction: an oak tree is composed of a cup of ordinary water, which is put on a small glass shelf. This glass shelf is usually the type in the bathroom, hanging on the wall above the head. Craig Martin created a series of questions and answers to fit these objects. In these works, the artist claims that the glass of water has become an oak tree. In 1974, when an oak tree was first exhibited at Rowan Gallery in London, its words were printed on a flyer. It was then pasted under the shelves and glass and on the left wall. Craig Martin's text deliberately asserts that it is impossible. These questions explore the obvious impossibility of the artist's assertion, and the obvious effective complaint is: "don't you simply call this glass of water an oak? But the oak tree is only in the mind. The answer maintains faith, while acknowledging that "the real oak exists physically, but in the form of a glass of water... Just as it is imperceptible, it is also unimaginable '. Oak is based on the concept of transformation, which is the core concept of Catholic faith. In this concept, people believe that bread and wine will be transformed into the body and blood of Christ while maintaining the appearance of bread and wine. To believe that an object is not its appearance requires a vision of change. This type of seeing (and knowing) is the core of conceptual thinking process, through which intellectual and emotional values are given images and objects. An oak tree compares this belief system with religious belief. For Craig Martin, this belief system is the core of art. He explained:
In my opinion, in an oak tree, I deconstructed the way of artistic works to reveal its single basic and basic elements, that is, the artist's confidence in his ability to speak, and the audience's voluntary belief in accepting what he said. In other words, faith is the foundation of our entire artistic experience: it explains why some people are artists and some people are not, why some people reject works of art, why some people praise them highly, and why we know that great things don't always move us.
Date of create：1974
Title: Letters from home
Author:Zarina Hashmi
Media: woodblock and metal engraving on 8 papers
Size: 570 × 380 mm each
Introduction: the letter from home is a collection of eight monochrome wood and metal prints, which is made of the original letters written by my sister Lani to Zarina Hashmi in Urdu language. From these letters, the artist made plates that she used to print on handmade Kozo paper. Then, block printing is used to surround or cover the lettermarks with the outline of the house, the plan or the geographical location map. Hashimi printed these works and published 20 works, of which Tate's works ranked ninth.
From 1963 to 1967, Hashemi studied printmaking with the famous British painter and printmaker S.W. Haite (1901-1988) in studio 17 in Paris. The letters from her home reflected her training in various printmaking techniques. This series was shot in 2004 at Hashemi's New York studio. As the title shows, letters from the family are the archive of letters sent to Hashemi by her sister over a period of time. Since leaving India in 1958 to accompany Saad Hashmi, a military officer engaged in international diplomacy, around the world, the artist has frequently moved between cities, countries and continents. After she left, because of the partition of India and Pakistan, her family was immediately asked to relocate, resulting in the loss of home. They moved from Delhi, India, to Karachi, Pakistan, where Hashemi's sister still lives. Therefore, the theme of house and home plays an important role in Hashemi's works. She once said, "home is the center of my universe; wherever I am, I will build a home."
Date of create：1963-1958
Title: Quarterly meteor
Author: Lynda benglis
Media: lead and steel on steel base
Size: 1500 × 1680 × 1580 mm, 976 kg
Introduction: the fragmented meteor is a lead sculpture displayed in the corner of the gallery. This work is a castings made of models originally made of polyurethane foam stacking layers. The Bengali people first created foam sculptures as their own works, and these works must be temporary and ephemeral. The casting of foam products with bronze not only guarantees their longevity as a work of art, but is also an attempt to deliberately subvert and create the mysterious material existence of these objects. In this work, the static and heavy properties of lead are inconsistent with the amorphous shape of foam, which reminds people of the molten lava after cooling.
Banglis is one of the most important figures in American post minimalist art in 1960s and 1970s. She is famous for her colorful latex works. However, the metal sculpture of a quarter of meteors is an important part of her early practice. Like many other artists of her generation, banglis' works usually follow the principle that the form should come from the inherent quality of the material she chooses. These works change from bubble like spheres to solid metal blocks, indicating the artist's deep understanding of the different properties of materials.
Richard Marshall, the curator and critic, used these works to describe bangris' intention
Artists are fascinated by metals not only because of their permanence, but mainly because of their inherent properties - energy, reflective surfaces, value as natural resources, and the ability to restore liquids. A quarter of meteors mean that a molten material has entered the earth's atmosphere and hit a corner.
Date of create：1969-1975
Title: make up - make down
Author: Sanja ivekovic
Media: video, monitor, colour and sound
Size: 9 minutes
Work introduction: make up - make up 1978 is a nine minute color video by Croatian artist sanjaivikovic. The camera is fixed in a static lens that focuses on the artist's upper body, but does not include her head. In the film, the artist uses a lot of cosmetics, but since the artist's face has never been exposed, we can only see her handling cosmetics, which she does slowly and deliberately. Avi Covic stroked the cosmetics in an intimate way: stroking a cosmetic bottle and a medicine bottle, stroking the tip of the eyelid, and massaging lipstick on the top of its shell. The video was produced by the cavalino Gallery in Venice. The early black-and-white version was created in 1976. This 1978 version was originally shot on an open book portable video recorder and later transferred to a digital Betacam tape. It's shown on the monitor.
Make up - make up focuses the audience's attention on an ordinary and private activity. Ivekovich describes the effect of the work as follows:
Make up is a cautious activity between the mirror and me Television messages are isolated in a private space. Every day, I slow down my movements, so that the common movement of make-up has the characteristics of ritual performance. Make up - make up focuses the audience's attention on an ordinary and private activity. Ivekovich describes the effect of the work as follows:
Make up is a cautious activity between the mirror and me Television messages are isolated in a private space. Every day, I slow down my movements, so that the common movement of make-up has the characteristics of ritual performance
(ivakovic of Sania ivikovic: is this my true face, Zagreb Museum of contemporary art, 1998, P. 11.)
In this way, the video corresponds to the work of other feminist artists and thinkers who try to share their personal experiences with each other. However, it is also similar to feminists' criticism of the natural connection between women, feminism and beauty. Ivikovic used video and TV monitors to subvert the representation of women in the media by retaining facial images. This, the artist wrote, violates "the social aesthetic contract that connects femininity, beauty and desire [destroy] the whole psychosocial mechanism of temptation, persuasion and identity "(holert 2008, pp. 27-8). Instead of presenting the female body as the desire object of male gaze, the desire is redirected to pornographic cosmetics. What is shown here is not the female image after make-up, but a process or ceremony of self-care - love for oneself - expressed through make-up. Therefore, it is not like a camera to capture images, but like a mirror, providing a space for artists to reflect on themselves, in which the audience is invited to share. In this way, make-up represents a completely different way to express a woman's body.
Date of create：1978
