2015.05.31 - 6.14
artists :
collaboration between
collaboration between
Asta Gudmundsdottir / Iceland, Takuya Komaba / Japan
「自然の流れの中で、凪ぐ海の穏やかな潮汐に身を任せるように生きる」アウスター・グズムンズドッティル。
アイスランド出身で、ファッションデザイナーでもあるアウスタと日本人アーティスト駒場拓也によるユニット。二人の出会いは我孫子の森の中であった。木々の揺らめきと木洩れ日、風が囁き、生き物の息吹に包まれたそこは、静かな海の中を漂う様だったという。
日本とアイスランドは非常に離れた国ではあるが、共に島国であり、共通点が多い。その中でも、アニマミズム的自然信仰が2人を強く結びつけている。
『Rippling/さざなみ』というテーマは、彼らがユニットとして作品を制作するのにおいて、一貫したものであり、自然の中の一つの現象にフォーカス し、インスタレーションという形でアウトプットしたものである。木々の生い茂る森の中で、自然界には存在しない白色を使う事で、一種の抽象化された精神世 界を布、糸、紐、竹などのマテリアルを編む、繋ぐ、結ぶ、縫うなどして構築していく。完成した作品はその界隈を浄化する装置として稼働しだす。
今回は初の室内展示であり、森とは全く異なる無機質な空間で紡がれた糸たちは、どことなく彼女の故郷であるアイスランドの凍てついた滝「氷瀑」の様でもある。
この猥雑で無機質な東京砂漠で、2人の作り上げた装置は、新しいオアシスになることだろう。
to nourish in an effortless natural flow
like on a calm sea
where one wave replaces another mild and soft
where one wave replaces another mild and soft
The rainy season is coming soon and a new “oasis” is about to be born in Otsuka,
Tokyo.
A collaboration between Asta, an artist and also a fashion designer from Iceland and Takuya Komaba, a Japanese artist has been realized. They first met in the forest of Abiko. The swaying of the trees, the sunlight filtered through the trees, whispering of the wind ―the place full of the breath of the living seemed like being in the quiet ocean. Japan is very far from Iceland, still being an island nation, they have much in common. Above all the two artists are strongly bonded togerher in the animistic nature worship. The theme of the coming exhibition “Rippling/sazanami” is consistent through their collaboration;to focus on a natural phenomenon and output it in an installation. In the deep forest, they try to construct a kind of an abstract spiritual world. In the process, they weave, spin, tie and sew such materials as cloth, thread, string and bamboo. The work completed is a device for purifying the neighborhood .
This time they’ve chosen ano ano galerie for the first indoor space for expression. By the way, the works of Takuya Komaba are exhibited here lastingly. The name of the gallery “ano ano” means “a seed” in Hawaiian and the beginning and the ending of a seed is symbolized into the gallery space using Japanese cedar and plywood. The
A collaboration between Asta, an artist and also a fashion designer from Iceland and Takuya Komaba, a Japanese artist has been realized. They first met in the forest of Abiko. The swaying of the trees, the sunlight filtered through the trees, whispering of the wind ―the place full of the breath of the living seemed like being in the quiet ocean. Japan is very far from Iceland, still being an island nation, they have much in common. Above all the two artists are strongly bonded togerher in the animistic nature worship. The theme of the coming exhibition “Rippling/sazanami” is consistent through their collaboration;to focus on a natural phenomenon and output it in an installation. In the deep forest, they try to construct a kind of an abstract spiritual world. In the process, they weave, spin, tie and sew such materials as cloth, thread, string and bamboo. The work completed is a device for purifying the neighborhood .
This time they’ve chosen ano ano galerie for the first indoor space for expression. By the way, the works of Takuya Komaba are exhibited here lastingly. The name of the gallery “ano ano” means “a seed” in Hawaiian and the beginning and the ending of a seed is symbolized into the gallery space using Japanese cedar and plywood. The
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device the two artists create in this site-specific space must be a new oasis in the
sordid and impersonal desert of Tokyo.
We are happy if the coming exhibition can give peace of mind to those who visit here.
We are happy if the coming exhibition can give peace of mind to those who visit here.
text by ano ano galerie http://www.anoanogalerie.com/
