Human Landscape (2020)
Photo: Kenj Otani i
Tohru Nakazaki Human Landscape in MIDTOWN
Installation
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10/31(Sat) - 11/1(Sun)
Tokyo Midtown Plaza, 1F "Canopy Square"
Free
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Human Landscape in MIDTOWN consists of three lightbox sculptures based on the human form and a sign bearing the word MIDTOWN. The title derives from Human Landscape, a 2020 solo exhibition centered on the three sculptures. The artist, who has been creating works based on signage since 2000, conceived these human-figure lightbox sculptures by using fluorescent lights as a skeletal framework; the resulting forms evoked mountain ridges or landscapes from some other, distant place. What kind of landscape will emerge within Tokyo Midtown?
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Artist
Thoru Nakazaki
Born in Ibaraki, Japan in 1976. Artist. Based in both Tokyo and Ibaraki. His practice spans works using signboards as motifs, as well as performance, video and installation, without being confined to any single medium. He has participated in numerous exhibitions. At the end of 2006, he co-founded Nadegata Instant Party. Since 2011, he has been involved in Project FUKUSHIMA!, where he has primarily been responsible for art direction.
