ART | Experiencing Contemporary Art in the Beautiful Oirase Region
ART | Contemporary Art in the Beautiful Oirase Region
Takashi Kuribayashi's Works Exhibited at Hoshino Resorts Oirase Keiryu Hotel
Towada Art Center in Aomori Prefecture is known for creating intimate spaces with individual, independent exhibition rooms, much like homes. As the first initiative of its "Arts Cube Project," which expands this concept throughout the city, works by contemporary artist Takashi Kuribayashi will be exhibited at Hoshino Resorts Oirase Keiryu Hotel in Towada City until late September.
Text by YANAKA Tomomi
The First Initiative of Towada Art Center's "Arts Cube Project"
Takashi Kuribayashi is known for creating works themed around "boundaries." Until September 2nd (Sunday), at Towada Art Center and other venues, the exhibition "WATER >│
The exhibition "WATER >│
The exhibition focuses on large-scale new installations and video works, centered around the theme of "water."
The "Arts Cube Project" aims to install "homes (= Cubes)" throughout Towada City where art can be appreciated everywhere. As the first initiative, a plan was conceived to utilize the blessed environment unique to Oirase—boasting some of Japan's most beautiful scenery and serving as a motif for Taro Okamoto and numerous other artworks—as an art space. A highly expandable "home for art" has been newly established within the hotel. This endeavor will continue, with contemporary art pieces to be exhibited in the future.
For this exhibition, Takashi Kuribayashi collaborated with Sanyo Trading Co., Ltd.'s Aomori Factory, one of its domestic production bases, which he partnered with in 2010 to create art utilizing sewing technology. Employing the factory's high-level sewing skills, a three-dimensional penguin artwork emerges, symbolizing for him the "boundary" between land and water, freely traversing both.
The penguins in this exhibition symbolize the "boundary" for Mr. Kuribayashi, freely moving between land and water.
Penguins by Takashi Kuribayashi have appeared amidst the beautiful Oirase forest and environment. We invite you to savor a different facet of art, distinct from what you might experience in a museum.
Takashi Kuribayashi
Born in Nagasaki Prefecture in 1968. Graduated from Musashino Art University. He later studied abroad in Germany, completing his studies at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as a Meisterschüler in 2002. He has participated in numerous contemporary art exhibitions both domestically and internationally, earning high acclaim abroad. In Japan, a permanent installation of his work is located at the Towada Art Center in Aomori Prefecture. His numerous exhibitions include the "Nature Sensations" exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in 2010 and the "INBETWEEN" exhibition at BEYOND MUSEUM in 2011. In 2011, he received the 7th Yoshinobu Ashihara Award from the Department of Architecture at Musashino Art University.