By Indirection finds directions out./ Japan

Yamakiwa Gallery. Japan.

| 2018

Installation Views of ” Indirections finds direction out” at Yamakiwa Gallery.

By Indirection finds directions out./ Japan

Yamakiwa Gallery. Japan.

2018

Yamakiwa Gallery. Japan.

Curated by Paula Zambrano.

The theoretical framework combines two notions of time: the first one, which is defined by the conditions of Yamakiwa Art-Hotel, understood as a temporal and nomadic establishment, or a place where people come and go in journeys on a short-term basis. And the second notion of time, which is outlined by the Echigo-Tsumari region, defined by its permanent and sedentary condition, distinct by its nature, history and culture: a long-term temporary dependency.

By Indirections Find Directions Out seek to point out temporal and geographical juxtapositions; experiences of anachronism, moments of synchronicity, represented and manifested in contemporary art. It alludes to the changes and alterations of the messages that art contains, stores and transmit to us: how they travel and transform through time. The idea is to investigate the multidirectional experience of time and space, and the transferals of energy that take place in the production and encounter with art.

The dark images​ ​of​ Carlos Santos ​contain black crushed marble, synthetic fibers, animal charcoals, vegetable pigments, concrete derivatives, polyurethans, ashes and waterproof materials for the construction of buildings and houses. His work is characterized by texture, traces of burns and cuts, a sense of tactility, and an emphasis on the physical, earthly and material qualities of the elements that he employs. The artist address aspects of life and death, metamorphosis, nature and alchemy. He also translates architectural and socio-political discourses from his context into plastic language. In other words, he extracts references of places, structures and spaces, and transforms them into raw matter but also into art.

今夏やまきわ美術館は、キュレーター、パウラ・ザンブラーノ(メキシコ・英国)を招いてレジデンスを一月間行い、ヨーロッパと南米の作家による作品(パトリシア・ドミンゲス、ラブ・エンクェスト、ガイア・フガッサ、ドミニク・ハウグッド、マリアナ・マダレーノ、カスロス・サントス、ジュリア・ヴァレラ)を展示構成します。同時に作家メアリー・ハレル(南アフリカ/英国)もレジデンスを行い、身体の動きや彫刻的な衣服、そして音響を取り入れた、時間と偶発性を探究した新作を展示期間中発表します。

企画構成には二種類の時間が取り込まれています。一つは、アートホテルやまきわ美術館を一時的な非定住者のための施設、あるいは人が短期的に行き来するための場所と捉えて、その条件のもとに規定される時間です。二つ目は、自然•歴史•文化など、越後妻有地域の恒久的・定住的な条件によって形作られる長期の時間属性です。

By Indirections Find Directions Outは、時間的・地理的な並置状況を見出し、現代アートの中に現れるアナクロニズムの経験とシンクロニシティの瞬間を探求することを目的としています。これは、アートが内部に持ち、保存し、私たちに送り出すメッセージの変質や改変、すなわち、このメッセージが時間の中をどのように通過し、変化していくかということに結びついてます。時間と空間の多方向な経験、そしてアートの制作や出会いにおけるエネルギーの発散について模索したいと考えています。

 

http://yamakiwagallery.blogspot.com/2018/07/exhibition-by-indirections-find.html

https://ocula.com/magazine/reports/echigo-tsumari-art-triennale/