Simon Fujiwara
Simon Fujiwara (born September 10, 1982 in Harrow , Great Britain ) is an English artist.
His works include paintings and photographs, installations, film, sculptures. They can be seen in museums around the world, such as the Tate Modern in London, the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin and the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery in Tokyo.
Fujiwara calls his art a mixture of politics, architecture and his own biography. In the Tate St. Ives, for example, he recreated the bar of a hotel that his parents ran in Spain, charged with erotic elements.
In 2016 he showed shaved animal skins in Tokyo, a sad homage to the dimension of time with clock pendulums and chains hanging from the ceiling in Brussels, a multimedia biography of Irish freedom fighter Roger Casement reminiscent of Hollywood in Dublin and the powder and those around him in Berlin The skin pigments of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel enlarged by a factor of 1000 . In the Kunsthaus Bregenz he rebuilt the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.
Life
Simon Fujiwara was born in Harrow, London. His family (his mother British, father Japanese) moved first to Japan, then to Spain and finally to Cornwall , where Simon discovered his vein for art. He studied architecture at the University of Cambridge and then, from 2005 to 2008, art at the State University of Fine Arts - Städelschule in Frankfurt. He lives in Berlin.
Web links and exhibitions
- Artistic biography of the Andrea Rosen Galerie . First own exhibition in New York City: Studio Pietà (King Kong Complex) , inspired by a photo of his mother being worn by her lover, reviewed in the New York Times
- Artistic biography of the Guggenheim Museum
- Joanne , The Photographers' Gallery London, Guardian review October 14, 2016
- Figures in a Landscape . Kunsthalle Düsseldorf , December 2016 to March 2017
- Hope House , Kunsthaus Bregenz , January to April 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Off Topic podcast: Roger Casement biopic, Assassin's Creed and the future of libraries , Irish Times, May 20, 2016
- ↑ Birgit Sonna: Interview with Simon Fujiwara about Merkel's powder compact in Art Magazin, June 2016 ( memento of the original from June 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ ARD on the Hope House ( memento from November 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), January 2018
- ↑ Holland Cotter: Simon Fujiwara: 'Studio Pietà (King Kong Complex)' . In: The New York Times . August 8, 2013, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed April 12, 2017]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fujiwara, Simon |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1982 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Harrow , UK |