presents
Post-structures: lines, wires, mazes
of Uemon Ikeda
curated by
Simonetta Lux
Carlo Severati
and Carlo Tomassi: video performance “The
Tatsuo Childhood”
Emma
Tagliacollo’s interview to Ikeda
From 8th June 2012 to 23rd
June 2012
Opening reception for the artist Friday,
June 8th from 6 pm
In
this context, Tatsuo Uemon Ikeda (Kobe, Hyogo 1952) delves into the issue of
virtual space by means of tools he already experienced in the past- from
drawings to three- dimensional use of wool–silk red threads of different
thickness.
As you
will see in this exhibition, the outdoor location shots -leading to Carlo
Tomassi’s short The Tatsuo Childhood -integrate the
two-dimensional representation of his trait and the organization of the small
inner labyrinth along which drawings and projection screens are displayed.
The
observer is forced to share three conditions-actions which, even facing the
universe of daily gestures, in the real space, from the desk to the city,
almost cancel each other, suggesting a sort of indifference of the author to
the contexts.
Ikeda
interposes a personal and totally mental unit of measurement between himself
and real space (his desk, the gallery, the Lake Garden in Villa Borghese).
While
nourishing himself with the dimensions and the atmospheres of the shared
rituals- both Japanese and Italian-at the same time, he laughs at them,
focusing on his laconicism- as if his work continuously needs some ritual
contamination in order to express his persisting instability.
Variety
and contradiction that make every effort in decoding difficult and
questionable, since they impose themselves with their substantial fragility on
a chance encounter with the world.
When
Ikeda laid his thread at head hight, in the Lake Garden in Villa Borghese, an
absent-minded passerby tripped over it: the passerby, as turned out
later, was a poet who had just published an haiku book.
C.S.
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