Chiharu Shiota
FOLLOW THE LINE
Chiharu Shiota
FOLLOW THE LINE
OPENING: APRIL 21, 2016
PERIODO: APRIL 21 - JULY 31, 2016
After the great success of the last Venice Biennale with the installation “The Key in the Hand”, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea is glad to present the first Italian solo show by Chiharu Shiota. The collaboration with the gallery dates back to 2010, with exhibitions in group shows.
‘If I weave something and it turns out to be ugly, twisted, or knotted, then such must have been my feelings when I was working’. The intricate configurations become expressions of emotional states: the delicate black threads that the artist weaves are intuitively connected to her own feelings and her response to human relationships.
Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) is a Japanese artist best known for creating monumental environments, occupied entirely by dense textures of woven threads. Impressive structures at the same time delicate and poetic, hovering between the ethereal vacuity suggested by the weaving and the bulky materiality of what it is suspended inside.
Characterised as traces of places and memories of a life that no longer exists, as fossil amber the wires crystallizes objects connected to our everyday life, clothes, books, suitcases, fragments of anatomical sculptures. The emanated expressive power is redefined as a "philosophy of the moment".
The exhibition also includes a collection of drawings and recent works, enriched with sketches and photos. The visual and emotional impact of Shiota’s works is disruptive, and in Follow the line there are the great part of issues dear to the artist.
Extricating between life and death, present moment and memory, in the alternation of red and black, the sculptures and paintings of Chiharu Shiota suggests how our identity might actually become boundaries that limits and entangles us.
BIOGRAFIA
Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972). Vive e lavora a Berlino. Le sue mostre personali sono state ospitate in Europa, Giappone e nel resto del Mondo.
Solo show includono: K21-Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany (2015), Espai de arte contemporani Castelló, Castello, Spain (2014), Smithsonian Institution Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C., USA (2014), The Museum of Art, Koch, Japan (2013), La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2011), The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan and CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2008). Group exhibitions includono: Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2015), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014), Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia and Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel (2013) e inoltre le Bienniali in Venice (Italy), Sydney (Australia), Kiev (Ukraine) and Yokohama (Japan).
BIOGRAPHY
Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) lives and works in Berlin. Her exhibitions have been held in Europe, Japan and around the world.
Solo show include: K21-Kunstsammlung NRW, Dusseldorf, Germany (2015), Espai de arte contemporani Castelló, Castello, Spain (2014), Smithsonian Institution Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D.C., USA (2014), The Museum of Art, Koch, Japan (2013), La Maison Rouge, Paris, France (2011), The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan and CentrePasquArt, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland (2008). Group exhibitions include: Espace Culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France (2015), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2014), Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia and Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel (2013) as well as the Biennials in Venice (Italy), Sydney (Australia), Kiev (Ukraine) and Yokohama (Japan).