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EXHIBITION

Borderline Collection Exhibition I

2013.4.13 (Sat.) -
2013.7.15 (Mon.)

Information

Period :
2013.4.13 (Sat.) - 2013.7.15 (Mon.)
10:00 - 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays and Saturdays)
Venue :
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Closed:
Mondays, May 7 (Open on April 29, May 6, and July 15)
Admission:
Adult : ¥350(¥280)
University : ¥280(¥220)
Elem/ JH/ HS : Admisson free
65 and over : ¥280

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*Advance ticket will not be on sale.
For More Information:
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Phone: +81-76-220-2800
Facsimile: +81-76-220-2802
E-Mail: info@kanazawa21.jp

About the Exhibition

The sense of strangeness, insecurity, and fear we feel when encountering the unknown. Such feelings come to us as a sign we are about to cross a border. The people with whom we share a language, physical characteristics, rules, and memories we see as “inside” our familiar world, and all others we view as “outside.” Thus, we unconsciously make a distinction and construct a border separating “inside” from “outside.” Borders at times repel the outside, as a threat to the security of the inside, and produce conflict. Yet, a border can also be a fluid territory, continually renewed as inside and outside negotiate and discover new rules. Borders can also tell us how we, ourselves, see the world and people outside. Borders, this is to say, can potentially help us broaden our inside world. Taking such perspectives, our Collection Exhibition this time will reconsider the character of borders, not as a cause of “division” but rather as a means of “connection” and broadening our world. Collection Exhibition I will look at the borders of the body, and Collection Exhibition II, at social and systematic borders.
Life forms, human beings included, have an inside enveloped a membrane. By taking materials from outside into their inside, life forms obtain energy and sustain their life. When it comes to our bodies with their complex organs, one part may actually be an outside that is inside, while another part, an inside that is outside. This kind of a structure, where inside and outside develop by reversing themselves, shows us something of the character of a border. In Collection Exhibition I, taking the most familiar example—our bodies—we will use borders as a means to explore human existence and our relationship with the world around us.

YONEDA Seiko, Curator, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa

Artists Profile

Rebecca HORN
Eight Branches of Hair on Fire (detail), 1993
eight knives, eight brushes, metal construction, motor
H235xW49xD29.5cm
Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
©Rebecca HORN
Photo: SAIKI Taku

Rebecca HORN

Born in Michelstadt, Germany in 1944. Lives in Berlin, Germany.
For three years from around 1968, Rebecca Horn had to spend time recuperating from a lung problem caused by the synthetic material she used to make sculptures at art school. It was this experience of loneliness and isolation from the outside world that gave rise to her performances in the early 1970s, which involved wearing items that extended or restricted the body, including objects made of feathers, wings, and masks. This consciousness of the yearning for communication and intimacy in the form of touching and of the fragility of the human body and the need to protect it is also explored in her videos, films, and three-dimensional works. As well as installations that reflect on things like memories that have been erased from society or history and grief, in recent years Horn has also presented works that use words, lighting and music created in collaboration with musicians to inquire into the spiritual realm and the cycles of nature. (KC)

KIMURA Taiyo
We know you know we know your pleasure you never know, 2006-2007
mixed media
dimensions variable
Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
©KIMURA Taiyo
Photo: NAKAMICHI Atsushi / Nacása & Partners

KIMURA Taiyo

Born in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture in 1970. Lives and works in Kamakura.
Kimura studied oil painting at an art academy but eventually changed to installations and three-dimensional work. He began exhibiting artworks from the mid-1990s and, from 1999, twice undertook art residences in Germany. Since his student days, Kimura has recorded his ideas and dreams in drawing books or on video as a source for the creation of art. His works, which employ familiar, everyday materials and situations, feature a blend of distinctive humor, amiability, and bizarreness that often induces visceral discomfort in the viewer. In this way, Kimura endeavors to communicate, directly to our physical sensibilities, the absurdity that underlies ordinary, everyday life and to reveal the true essence of things. (KC)


KITAGAWA Hiroto
New Type 2005 – blue, 2005
terracotta, acrylic paint
H170xW42xD30cm
Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
©KITAGAWA Hiroto
Photo: KIOKU Keizo

KITAGAWA Hiroto

Born in Ootsu, Shiga, Japan in 1967. Lives in Tokyo, Japan.
Graduating from the sculpture department at Kanazawa College of Art in 1989, Kitagawa Hiroto felt no interest at all in the monumental outdoor sculptures so popular in Japan at that time. He therefore left to study in Italy, where the art of figurative sculpture he had long felt drawn to still thrived. In Italy, Kitagawa encountered the ancient sculptural technique of terracotta and came under its spell. Mastering it, he began producing his “New Type” series of slender human figures resembling Japanese anime characters. He has since pioneered a unique world of sculpted figures colored with acrylic paint, a medium that brings out the warm texture of the clay. (FM)


NAKASHIMA Harumi
WORK-0703, 2007
porcelain, coil making, inglaze, clear glaze
H82xW61xD42cm
Private collection
©NAKASHIMA Harumi
Photo: SAIKI Taku
(Reference image)
Courtesy of gallery VOICE

NAKASHIMA Harumi

Born in Gifu Prefecture (Japan) in 1950. Lives and works in Gifu.
Nakashima encountered YAGI Kazuo and the artists of Sodeisha while at Osaka University of the Arts, and began producing ceramic objects. Upon graduating, he worked at a Shigaraki ceramics company, then obtained employment at Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center. Since 2003, he has taught ceramic arts as a professor at Aichi University of Education. Nakashima’s creations arise from the qualities he discovers in the clay during the production process, as well as from the distinctive materiality of pottery and the processes by which clay becomes ceramics. On this basis, he produces strikingly original works of multiplying polka-dot spheres. (YS)


ODANI Motohiko
Rompers, 2003
video
approx. 2 min. 52 sec.
Music by PIRAMI
Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
©ODANI Motohiko
Courtesy of YAMAMOTO GENDAI

ODANI Motohiko

Born in Kyoto (Japan) in 1972. Lives and works in Tokyo.
Since studying sculpture at Tokyo University of the Arts, Odani has produced artworks that bring wide-ranging media, including photography and film, into play. Taking the visual expression of pain, hidden in the body or a space, and forgotten sensations as a central theme, he has endeavored to expand the concept of sculpture. His works in which the human body mutates and acquires extensions have a capability to suggest a new physical reality to us, as contemporary people out of touch with our physical senses. (YS)





Anne WILSON
Errant Behaviors, 2004
video and sound installation
Composer: Shawn Decker, Animator: Cat Solen, Post-production Animator and Mastering: Daniel Torrente
Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
©2004 Anne Wilson
Photo: NAKAMICHI Atsushi / Nacása & Partners

Anne WILSON

Born in Detroit, USA in 1949. Lives and works in Chicago, USA.
Using materials such as lace, linen, human hair, and thread, Anne Wilson skillfully employs the techniques of sewing, weaving, and tying in creating works that investigate human perceptions and meaning as a culturally constructed linguistic norm. Her works range from panels, stitched into fabric using thread or hair, to large-scale sculptural pieces 10 meters wide and video and photographic creations. Working with her hands, Wilson creates a dense, eloquent world by interweaving the emotions awakened by her materials – which richly evoke privacy and the body – with our memory of the functions they originally served and the complex, delicate textures produced by her use of pins and bits of thread. (YE)




YOKOMIZO Shizuka<
Stranger (9), 1999
C-print
H108xW127cm (incl. frame)
Collection of 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
©YOKOMIZO Shizuka

YOKOMIZO Shizuka

Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1966. Lives in London, UK.
After studying philosophy at university in Japan, Yokomizo Shizuka moved to the UK where she studied art and began exhibiting her work. She continues to create artwork that looks at themes such as the individual, society, community, and the distance between human beings using mainly photographs and video as her media. The “Stranger” series (1998-2000), in which she sent letters anonymously to numerous complete strangers and photographed them through the windows of their own homes, typifies Yokomizo’s unique approach to the issues she addresses, in this case the boundaries between the self and others, and personal and public territory. (MD)

FM: FUDO Misato
KC: KITADE Chieko
MD: MURATA Daisuke
YE: YOSHIOKA Emiko
YS: YONEDA Seiko

Organizers

Organized by:
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa (Kanazawa Art Promotion and Development Foundation)