Kenji Yanobe
Kenji Yanobe ( Japanese ヤ ノ ベ ケ ン ジ , Yanobe Kenji , actually 矢 延 憲 司 , Yanobe Kenji ; * 1965 in Osaka Prefecture ) is a Japanese artist.
Kenji studied at the Kyōto Municipal Art School .
His work is influenced by the aftermath of the Expo '70 and the otaku culture, as well as by more visionary dreams of the future that increasingly burst from the 1970s onwards. ( Oil crisis , environmental problems , cold war , failure of the conquest of space and the peaceful use of nuclear power due to the crash of the Challenger OV-99 and the Chernobyl disaster ).
His works address the possibility of survival in a post-atomic world. He creates an absurdly ironic machine world from kinetic objects that could be useful devices as well as machines of war. They look like retro design , have the charm of the 50s and yet are science fiction . The fact that the sculptures are not only “images” of machines, but actually work, makes them our representatives in an oppressive way. Yanobe tells us in an ironic way that we have been living in the future for a long time (ruined radiation-contaminated future not only in Chernobyl / Fukushima , but also everywhere: chemical substances, electromagnetic waves).
In 1997, eleven years after the reactor disaster, he visited the ruins of Chornobyl wearing the Atom Suit he developed .
2018 In the summer of 2018 his statue "Sun Child", a 6-meter-high figure of a child in a yellow protective suit with a helmet removed, was placed in front of the Fukushima train station . It should serve as a symbol for a better future. The residents of Fukushima disliked the statue very much, and so it was dismantled again in autumn 2018.
Kenji Yanobe participated in the Melbourne International Biennial 1999 .
Works in public collections
International:
- Fonds national d'art contemporain , France ( National Fund for Contemporary Art, France )
- Regional fund for contemporary art (French Fonds régional d'art contemporain , FRAC) Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille
- University Art Museum , City of Santa Barbara
- Galleria d'arte moderna di Bologna ( Gallery of Modern Art Bologna )
- Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci , Prato ( Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci , Prato City)
- Art Collection Paul Allen ( Art Collection Paul Allen )
Japan:
- Municipal Museum of Art Kitakyushu ( Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art ) in Kitakyushu
- Kyoto
- Fukuroi
- Museum of Modern Art Hiroshima ( Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art ) in Hiroshima
- Museum of 21st Century Art Kanazawa ( 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa ) in Kanazawa
- Kumamoto Museum of Modern Art ( Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto City ) in Kumamoto
- State International Art Museum ( The National Museum of Art, Osaka City ) in Osaka
- Art Museum Toyota ( Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ) in Toyota
- Tokyo Museum of Modern Art ( Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo ) in Kōtō , Tokyo
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Japan scoffs at statue commemorating nuclear catastrophe. welt.de, August 14, 2018, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Jens Proll: Fukushima up-to-date: Storage instead of dumping of tritium waste water required - sub-chapter: Removal of controversial statue in Fukushima started. spreadnews.de, September 18, 2018, accessed November 15, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Yanobe, Kenji |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 矢 延 憲 司 (Japanese); ヤ ノ ベ ケ ン ジ (Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Osaka prefecture |