Takahiro Iwasaki
Artist
Born in Hiroshima, 1975. Lives and works in Hiroshima.
Takahiro Iwasaki transforms everyday objects and materials such as toothbrushes, towels, bookmarks, and duct tape into pylons, cranes, and delicate landscapes. Through the transformation of these familiar household items, the artwork invites viewers to adopt new perspectives on the everyday. Towers made of towel, threads built on randomly stacked cloth, remind us of the pylons we see in the mountains, and cranes made of bookmarks on books give the illusion of a building site.
Another series of his, 'Reflection Model', consists of detailed three-dimensional wooden models of traditional Japanese architecture, which give the impression of being united with its reflection on water. The influence in creating such fragile sceneries comes from the devastation wreaked upon Hiroshima by the atomic bomb, a city where he still lives and works. His art in its mirror imagery alludes to the 180 degrees turn that the city made from a city at the center of a military operation into the City of Peace after its reconstruction - as such his work can also be interpreted as perceptions of time.
In 2017, Iwasaki was selected as a representative artist and held a solo exhibition, "Turned Upside Down, It's a Forest", at the Japan Pavilion in the 57th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2017); His other recent solo exhibitions are, Takahiro Iwasaki Dust (10-10) and Moment (10-18)", Kurumaya Museum of Art, Tochigi, Japan (2015); "Takahiro Iwasaki Many a Muckle Makes a Mickle", Kurobe City Art Museum, Toyama, Japan and "In Focus", Aron Gallery, Asia Society, New York (2015).
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Reflection Model (Perfect Bliss)
2010-2012
Collection of Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
Photo: Kioku Keizo
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
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Out of Disorder (Cosmo World)
2011
Collection of Yokohama Museum of Art
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
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Phenotypic Remodeling (Hiroshima)
2010
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
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Geo Eye (Mt.Inasa)
2015
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
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A Large Sea of an Old House of the Peninsula of the Small Sea
2017
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
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Installation image of “Turned Upside Down, It’s a Forest”
Photo: Kioku Keizo photo courtesy of the Japan Foundation
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
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Tectonic Model (Flow)
2017
Taguchi Art Collection
Photo: Kioku Keizo photo courtesy of the Japan Foundation
© Takahiro Iwasaki, Courtesy of ANOMALY
