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A Conversation with Mathieu Mercier, Takaaki Izumi, Yuki Kimura, Soshi Matsunobe, Kaz Oshiro, Koki Tanaka About Abstract Objects
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Written by KALONSNET Editor   
Published: March 22 2011

Soshi Matsunobe, All Over Object - Packaging Tape, 2008, packaging tape, ø 12 x 5 cm. Unique. Courtesy of & Super Window Project™ & Gallery.

"What interests me is condensing different levels of reading into a work… But at the same time the work must resist all interpretation, there has to be something irreducible in its form… The irreducible part of the work begins with the question, ’What is this, exactly’?"

Since the early 90's Mathieu Mercier developed conceptual, visual and formal theories and strategies within objects’ production and exhibition, as an artist, a curator, and a collector. His practice translates with humor and accuracy his fundamental interest in the twentieth century avant-garde movements, social and intellectual utopias, history of art and forms, mass production processes, marketing and design, culminating in a body of work which can be embraced as a direct legacy of the spirit of Marcel Duchamp.

This second project of the artist in Japan can be viewed simultaneously as a group show and a solo show. It provides a possibility to discuss and envisage one’s grasp of different historical and geographical contexts, and different generations of artists. From the curatorial point of view it lands an opportunity to see the exhibition as a background for discussing the presence and relevance of objects that illustrate different levels of abstraction, or assimilate different definitions of abstraction. When does an object become an abstraction? Can an object dissolve behind its own concept? "What we believe is an image of truth" might be a possible answer.

The project attempts to create a dialogue between the Japanese art scene that seems to have assimilated and certainly processed through globalization and creolisation, and the Western-centered history and iconography, from abstraction to conceptualism, Dada to Pop, modernism to Minimalism; as part of a universal (un)conscious vocabulary. From painting to video, to ready-made, to photography, to sculpture, the exhibition is very much the occasion to convoke objects and to provoke their dissolution in the exhibition space that, years ago, used to be a home center. Pieces from Koki Tanaka, Yuki Kimura, Soshi Matsunobe, Kaz Oshiro, and Takaaki Izumi are selected or commissioned to create a conversation between them that tend towards abstractions, starting from a point where objects are ideas turned into a tangible form and vice versa. It provides a possibility for a discussion through juxtapositions, shifts, translations, oppositions, and for a debate about the purpose of the production of all objects.

A selection of Mercier's work will be displayed on the occasion of the exhibition at the Mori Museum, "French window: Looking at Contemporary Art Through the Marcel Duchamp Prize". Mercier received the Marcel Duchamp Prize in 2003.

This exhibition is a second collaboration developed by Muzz and Super Window Project.

* The text provided by Super Window Project.


Period: March 19 - April 24, 2011
Venue: MUZZ (1F,HI-NEST BLDG. 71 Banba-cho Jyodoji Sakyo-ku Kyoto)http://www.muzz.tv


Last Updated on March 19 2011
 

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