Chihiro Shimotani
Chihiro Shimotani ( Japanese 下 谷 千尋 , Shimotani Chihiro ; * 1934 in Sakurai , Nara Prefecture ) is a Japanese painter and sculptor .
life and work
Chihiro Shimotani was born in Japan in 1934 and graduated from the Kyoto Municipal Art School in 1961 . In 1988 Shimotani was visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich , from 1992 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2005 he taught at the summer academy in Neuburg an der Donau , from 1997 to 1998 at the International Summer Academy for fine arts, Salzburg. Chihiro Shimotani lives and works in the Japanese city of Sakurai.
Materials that Shimotani uses to produce his works are often from nature. Stone, wood, metal, paper gold, earth, wax, plants, snow, ice and water. He often prints, mills or embosses words into them. Word, writing, time and transience are themes of his artistic work.
With the work “Vocalize”, Shimotani took up a poem by Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891) in 2008 , in which the vowels are assigned colors and properties. So A means black, E white, I red, U green and O blue. Shimotani milled some formulations from Rimbaud's poem into colored metal plates and transformed them into picture-text panels. The works of Mishima Yukio and those of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke also offered Shimotani starting points for visual works.
Exhibitions (selection)
Solo exhibitions
- 2002: Municipal Gallery Lüdenscheid , Lüdenscheid
- 1980: Chihiro Shimotani, Sculptures and Words Westfälischer Kunstverein , Münster
- 1977: Erdzeitung Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus , Munich
Group exhibitions
- 1998: House of Art , Munich
- 1990: Art Museum Bochum, Bochum
- 1989: Vom Schönen Schein Villa Clementine , Wiesbaden; Municipal Gallery, Würzburg
- 1977: documenta 6 , Kassel
- 1969: Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum , Tokyo
- 1968: National Museum of Modern Art Kyōto , Kyoto
Art in public space (selection)
- 2011: Osaka Stock Exchange
- 2004: two light sculptures, EPA Munich
- 2002: Wall relief Die Welt Essity, Mannheim
- 1995: Wall relief for the new building of the Heilbronner Voice publishing house , Heilbronn
- 1992: Design of the inner courtyard of the European Patent Office , Munich
- 1980: Pax Christi Church, Krefeld
Awards
- 1995: 1st prize: Design project for the forecourt of the corporate building of the Schörghuber Group, Munich
- 1976: Berlin artist program of the DAAD , Berlin
- 1973: São Paulo Biennale (Grand Prize)
- 1972: Japan Art Festival, Central Museum, Tokyo (Foreign Ministry Prize)
- 1972: Tokyo International Print Biennale, Tokyo (Grand Prize)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Catalog for documenta 6. Volume 3, p. 84: hand drawings, utopian design, books. 1977, ISBN 3-920453-00-X .
- ↑ Chihiro Shimotani ( Memento from June 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Danièle Perrier Chihiro Shimotani - Words , accessed June 4, 2015.
- ↑ Kölner Stadtanzeiger The colors of the letters , accessed on June 4, 2015.
- ^ Galerie Graf Adolf Pictures and Objects by Chihiro Shimotani , accessed on June 4, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shimotani, Chihiro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 下 谷 千尋 (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese painter and sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sakurai , Nara Prefecture |