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NEW ARTIST IN RESIDENCE IN THE WALL HOUSE #2: THE JAPANESE VISUAL ARTIST AKIKO YANAGIMOTO
Since 25 April the Japanese visual artist Akiko Yanagimoto has been living in the Wall House in Groningen and, as such, is the second guest artist to be welcomed there by the Wall House #2 Foundation.
Yanagimoto (Saitama, Japan, 1979) was educated at Tama Art University in
Tokyo and at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She will stay in the Wall House during the months of May, June and July 2006.
Yanagimoto calls her work ‘Domestic Art’. As an artist, she seeks a form in which she can unite art and applied art, a form that strongly refers to the realm of he household, the self-evident, things that are familiar, such as listening to music or reading a book. At the same time, however, her work demonstrates that what she is looking for does not exist, cannot exist. As a consequence of her stay in the Netherlands, currently in the Wall House and previously in Amsterdam, it has become clear to her that the self-evidence of her home does not exist here, she is drifting. She paints domestic scenes with needle and thread, but leaves open the places where people should be; the residents are completely transparent.
The work that she will create in the Wall House issues from a project that she is currently implementing with a number of new residents of the De Linie suburb in Groningen. These residents have left their former houses for a house designed by the Japanese architect Moriko Kira.
In her search for domesticity, Yanagimoto visited these people in their former houses and took photographs. She processed the pictures and used these as the basis of her work. The work will be exhibited when the houses are completed. The search for domesticity and self-evidence will be continued in the Wall House, a house that represents the house concept so rigorously that it is truly the question of whether or not it can be a home. It is possible to generate a feeling of domesticity in the Wall House, and what is the essence of this? If that is not the case, can Yanagimoto create domesticity from within her own character?
The result of the experiment will be presented to the public in July.
End of press release
Note for the editor
Current information is displayed on www.wallhouse.nl
Information: Olof van de Wal
e-mail: info@wallhouse.nl tel: +31 (0)50-5250980 mobile: +31 (0)6-15052513 fax: +31 (0)842202466
Enclosure:
Curriculum Vitae of Akiko Yanagimoto (Saitama, Japan, 1979)
Education
1998-2002 Tama Art University, Tokyo
2003-2005 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions
2005 Souvenir of Domestic Art, CBK zuidoost, Amsterdam
2004 Goud Omrand, De Nederlandshe Bank, Amsterdam
2004 POINT of VIEW-heimwee mondaal, De Vishal, Haarlem
2002 The Graduation Show, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
Activities
2005 Fish, Restaurant Eenvistweevis, Amsterdam
2005 Fish, Restaurant Kagetsu van Woustr., Amsterdam
2004 Portrait Buddha, private commission, Amsterdam
2002 Space Design for Tomoko Mukaiyama’s Concert, Asahi Super dry Hall, Tokyo
Yanagimoto (Saitama, Japan, 1979) was educated at Tama Art University in
Tokyo and at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. She will stay in the Wall House during the months of May, June and July 2006.
Yanagimoto calls her work ‘Domestic Art’. As an artist, she seeks a form in which she can unite art and applied art, a form that strongly refers to the realm of he household, the self-evident, things that are familiar, such as listening to music or reading a book. At the same time, however, her work demonstrates that what she is looking for does not exist, cannot exist. As a consequence of her stay in the Netherlands, currently in the Wall House and previously in Amsterdam, it has become clear to her that the self-evidence of her home does not exist here, she is drifting. She paints domestic scenes with needle and thread, but leaves open the places where people should be; the residents are completely transparent.
The work that she will create in the Wall House issues from a project that she is currently implementing with a number of new residents of the De Linie suburb in Groningen. These residents have left their former houses for a house designed by the Japanese architect Moriko Kira.
In her search for domesticity, Yanagimoto visited these people in their former houses and took photographs. She processed the pictures and used these as the basis of her work. The work will be exhibited when the houses are completed. The search for domesticity and self-evidence will be continued in the Wall House, a house that represents the house concept so rigorously that it is truly the question of whether or not it can be a home. It is possible to generate a feeling of domesticity in the Wall House, and what is the essence of this? If that is not the case, can Yanagimoto create domesticity from within her own character?
The result of the experiment will be presented to the public in July.
End of press release
Note for the editor
Current information is displayed on www.wallhouse.nl
Information: Olof van de Wal
e-mail: info@wallhouse.nl tel: +31 (0)50-5250980 mobile: +31 (0)6-15052513 fax: +31 (0)842202466
Enclosure:
Curriculum Vitae of Akiko Yanagimoto (Saitama, Japan, 1979)
Education
1998-2002 Tama Art University, Tokyo
2003-2005 Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam
Group exhibitions
2005 Souvenir of Domestic Art, CBK zuidoost, Amsterdam
2004 Goud Omrand, De Nederlandshe Bank, Amsterdam
2004 POINT of VIEW-heimwee mondaal, De Vishal, Haarlem
2002 The Graduation Show, Spiral Gallery, Tokyo
Activities
2005 Fish, Restaurant Eenvistweevis, Amsterdam
2005 Fish, Restaurant Kagetsu van Woustr., Amsterdam
2004 Portrait Buddha, private commission, Amsterdam
2002 Space Design for Tomoko Mukaiyama’s Concert, Asahi Super dry Hall, Tokyo