0 Likes
Nobuko Watanabe and Keiji Uematsu
They call each other Kei-chan and Nobu-chan in private.
"Olive green and Olive green - stripes" front
Born in Tokyo, Nobuko Watanabe graduated from Souai Women's College of Music with a degree in piano in 1971, and had her first solo exhibition at the Fujimi Gallery in Osaka in 1972. In 1999, he won the Grand Prize at the 10th Yoshihara Jiro Prize Art Competition. In recent years, he has held numerous solo exhibitions in Germany, France, and other countries. Watanabe's works have a pictorial element in that the cloth is stretched over a wooden frame, but at the same time, the tension of the cloth is utilized to create a three-dimensional form. The vivid and sometimes delicate contrasts of color create a unique form that is both tense and soft.
"One stone" right wall
Japanese contemporary artist and sculptor. Born in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture.
His works are diverse in expression, including video (photography, film, and video), performance (and its video documentation), prints, sculpture, and installations. He calls the production of his works "work (=project)," and also presents drawings of his project ideas as independent works. He often uses fabric, stone, glass, iron, stainless steel, copper, bronze, brass, lumber (mostly bay pine), and natural wood as materials for sculpture and installation. Although his style may appear abstract, his works are the embodiment of invisible forces such as gravity.
As the second phase of the Shodoshima Art Project, the island's first reinforced concrete building, built 93 years ago, was transformed into a contemporary art museum in its original form. In addition to 10 original works by Keiji Uematsu, Nobuko Watanabe, Yoshinobu Nakagawa, and others, the museum exhibits a collection of 60 contemporary artworks and 40 "works related to Shodoshima.
The nearby brick warehouse was transformed into a new building (ANNEX), featuring installations by ZUGA-KURI (ZUGA Kohsaku + KURI-Eito) and Namekawa Miza.
...
The eight islands of Japan sprang into existence through Divine Intervention.The first two gods who came into existence were Izanagi no Mikoto and Izanami no Mikoto, the Exalted Male and Exalted Female. It was their job to make the land for people to live on.They went to the bridge between heaven and earth and, using a jewel-encrusted halberd, Izanagi and Izanami churned up the sea into a frothy foam. As salty drips of water fell from the tip of the halberd the first island was formed. Its name was Onogoro.So far, so good. But when Izanagi and Izanami first met on their island, Izanami spoke to Isanagi without being spoken to first. Since she was the female, and this was improper, their first union created badly-formed offspring who were sent off into the sea in boats.The next time they met, Izanagi was sure to speak first, ensuring the proper rules were followed, and this time they produced eight children, which became the islands of Japan.I'm sure you did not fail to miss the significance of this myth for the establishment of Japanese formal society.At present, Japan is the financial capital of Asia. It has the second largest economy in the world and the largest metropolitan area (Tokyo.)Technically there are three thousand islands making up the Japanese archipelago. Izanagi and Izanami must have been busy little devils with their jewelled halberd...Japan's culture is highly technical and organized. Everything sparkles and swooshes on silent, miniaturized mechanisms.They're a world leader in robotics, and the Japanese have the longest life-expectancy on earth.Text by Steve Smith.
