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Yoshihiro Suda Exhibit
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
On view beginning July 11, 2009 - October 18, 2009
Yoshihiro Suda will debut at The Contemporary Museum's Maikiki Heights galleries July 11 and remain on view through October 18, 2009. The exhibition is the artist's second solo museum exhibition in the United States and is organized by TCM and curated by James Jensen, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Collections. Support for this exhibition is provided in part by The Hara Museum Fund, Julia Ing, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda (born 1969) is internationally
known for his installations of delicate carved and painted wooden
plant life. Suda's sculptures of indigenous Japanese plants and
flowers, including camellias, magnolias, and roses, as well as
common weeds, are meticulously created with surprising realism and
in true-to-life scale that at times borders on the miniscule. The
artist carves these fragile pieces from magnolia wood before
hand-painting them with traditional Japanese pigments to produce
exact replicas of these natural flowers.
As works of installation art they are modest, effacing, and at
times nearly invisible. Yet these carvings have an overwhelming
presence that dominates their surroundings. His manner of exhibiting
works in unexpected locations urges the viewer to rediscover the
work's surrounding environment and architectures with fresh eyes and
to experience spaces anew. As such there is a temporal, even
performative, aspect to his artistic practice. Ultimately Suda
locates significance in the moments of encounter between the
environment, the sculpted form, and the viewer.
"I do not intend to concentrate merely on creating realistically.
I am interested in things that are created by and messed with the
hand - so much so that the work becomes dirty from too much
handling. The reason why I am attracted to things created by people,
is probably because I am human. However, it is impossible to see
only the things that are created in such a way. When one sees
something, there is no way he can eliminate the space surrounding
it. Then, I must consider the work to be more important than the
space--making something that does not exist, exist in a certain
place, and making a time exist only in a certain situation. That
"thing" for me now, is a plant sculpted from wood," said Suda.
For his exhibition at The Contemporary Museum, the artist will be
making several new works based on tropical flowers that are found in
Hawaii.
For
Exhibition Info: (808) 526-0232; Reception Desk: (808) 526-1322. Third Thursdays are free entry
days!
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