Do Ho Suh,
Tatzu Nishi,
Yukinori Yanagi

This Artist-In-Residence Project is intended to exhibit its completed work in 2018. Each artist will personally inspect Onomichi and Momoshima to decide on his exhibition site. Prior to the anticipated completion in 2018, ART BASE MOMOSHIMA will hold an exhibition of the artists’ sketches and plans for their future work this year. These three artists are internationally known for their large-scale work; the visitors will have the opportunity to witness their unique ideas in progress firsthand during this year’s exhibition. In addition, a part of the vacant house renovation project, “Momoshima Sento, The House of Goemonburo” by Yukinori Yanagi and Team ART BASE, will also be showcased on the island of Momoshima.

Dates:
10/3/2015- 11/29/2015 (Closed Tuesday and Wednesday)
Hours:
10:00~17:00
Venue:
ART BASE MOMOSHIMA
Admisssion:
700yen(Common ticket・A 100 yen coin is necessary for artwork in Nissho-Kan)
Artist:
Do Ho Suh, Tatzu Nishi, Yukinori Yanagi
※A related project, the exhibition in Prefectural Warehouse #3 in Onomichi is open, but by appointments only. Appointments by phone or email must be made three days in advance. Admission: ¥500

アーティスト/Artist

Left:《Karma》© Do Ho Suh、
Right:《Seoul Home/Seoul Home/Kanazawa Home/Beijing Home》© Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh

Do Ho Suh is an internationally renowned Korean artist whose site-specific installations and meticulously crafted sculptures question boundaries of identity and conventional notions of scale and space in both its physical and metaphorical manifestation. Suh was born in 1962 in Seoul. In 1991, he moved to the United States and studied sculpture at Yale University School of Art (MFA, 1997). His works have been represented in many of the world’s leading museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Tate Modern in London. In 2001, Do Ho Suh represented Korea at the Venice Biennale, and in 2010, he participated in the Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition and the Liverpool Biennial.

Left:《Café in the sky - Moon Rider 》© Tatsurou Bashi、
Right:《The Merlion Hotel 》 Photo: Yusuke Hattori

Tatzu Nishi

Tatzu Nishi is internationally known for his large-scale installation artwork, such as projects that surround famous monuments and public toilets to create functioning accommodation. Nishi creates “private space” in public space. He was born in Nagoya in 1960. In 1989, he moved to Germany to study at the Academy of Fine Arts Muenster (Kunstakademie Münster, Münster, Germany). Since then, he has been living and working in Germany. His major projects include Chéri in the sky, Maison Hermes, Tokyo, Japan, 2006, The Merlion Hotel, Singapore Biennale 2011, Singapore, and Discovering Columbus, New York, U.S.A, 2012.

Yukinori Yanagi

Yukinori Yanagi is known for his artwork that features the theme of movement, and he has been invited to numerous international exhibitions. Yanagi was born in 1959 in Fukuoka and he studied sculpture and obtained M.F.A. at Yale University in 1990. In 1993, he was awarded the Aperto prize in Venice Biennale. His works have been represented in many of the world’s leading museums, including Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London and more. He proposed a rebirth project on Heritage of Industrial Modernization through art in a remote island in 1995, and eventually completed the project, “Inujima Seirensho Art Museum” in 2008. He is currently developing a project in quest of a new expression of the horizon in a remote island of the Seto Inland Sea as his field.

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