Tadashi Kawamata

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Tadashi Kawamata (2010)

Tadashi Kawamata ( Japanese 川 俣 正 , Kawamata Tadashi ; * 1953 in Mikasa , Hokkaidō ) is a Japanese sculptor and photographer who lives and works in Tokyo and Paris .

life and work

Tadashi Kawamata's failure tower
Tadashi Kawamata, Walkway and Tower 05

Kawamata was born in northern Japan in 1953 and graduated from Hokkaidō Iwamizawa Higashi High School in 1972. From 1999 to 2005 he taught at the Tōkyō Geijutsu Daigaku in Tokyo, and since then Tadashi Kawamata has been a professor at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris in Paris. In 2005, Kawamata was the artistic director of the 3rd Yokohama Triennial .

“I am like a migratory bird. They are called nomadic, but a nomad is something too special. As a migratory bird you live somewhere and move away every season, but you also have to come back. "

- Tadashi Kawamata

Tadashi Kawamata operates worldwide. His works relate to their surroundings. He develops building structures from superimposed beams and boards that are obtained on site or nearby. In some projects it refers to the makeshift housing of the homeless. Other monumental workpieces are bridge projects or inaccessible tree huts such as B. at the Berlin House of World Cultures. Kawamata's temporary wooden slat architecture encases churches, hospitals, houses and abandoned hangars.

Exhibitions (selection)

Outdoor installations

Drift Structure (2010), Zellwegerpark in Uster

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

literature

Web links

Commons : Tadashi Kawamata  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rives de Saône - Interview: Tadashi Kawamata Biography accessed on October 23, 2013 (English)
  2. ^ Emscherkunst 2000 Tadashi Kawamata , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ Universes in Universe: Yokohama Triennale 2005 , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Christine Nippe on culturebase I am like a migratory bird ( memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / culturebase.net
  5. ↑ Tip Berlin: "Berlin Tree Houses" part of the "Rasende Heimat" exhibition in the House of World Cultures , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  6. ^ Art Museum Thurgau: Tadashi Kawamata. Scheiterturm / Log Tower ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 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. , accessed October 23, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kunstmuseum.ch
  7. ↑ Favela Café / Art Basel 2013 Favela Art - Police operation at Art Basel ignites controversy in Switzerland , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  8. ↑ Zellweger Park Drift Structure , accessed October 23, 2013.
  9. ↑ nurart-org, Irmgard Berner: At the House of World Cultures: Interventions and Surprises , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  10. ↑ curator Maria Brewinska: Tadashi Kwamata , accessed October 23, 2013.
  11. ^ Sidewalk Wiener Neustadt
  12. ^ Nora Schmidt: 'Huts' on the facade of the Center Pompidou by Tadashi Kawamata (JP) , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  13. ↑ Museum Schloss Moyland: Tadashi Kawamata / Leo van der Kleij (May 11– October 26, 2003): art-in.de , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  14. ^ Sculpture Projects Münster, Münster LWL: Tadashi Kawamata , accessed on October 23, 2013.
  15. ↑ Kamel Menour: Tadashi Kawamata , accessed October 23, 2013.
  16. ^ Tadashi Kawamata: Work in Progress in Zug , accessed October 23, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Kawamata, Tadashi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 川 俣 正 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese sculptor and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikasa