"Interior" Exhibition
MIYAKO YOSHINAGA art prospects
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Miyako Yoshinaga art prospects presents a summer group show with four artists, Satomi Shirai, Simone Bergantini, Rita MacDonald, and Anders Rhuwald, who explore the emotional influences that the décor and architecture of a room hold on its inhabitants, what Christopher Alexander and other proponents of Organic Architecture would call it's "aliveness." In light of mainstream's desire for commercial modernist design and sleek, minimalist styling architecture, in which hand crafted design has given way to sterile formalism and rationalism, these distinct artists create evocative interior spaces that explore the emotional undercurrents that inform the "interior."
Juxtaposing photos of her apartment with hand-made dollhouses replete with miniature furniture and commodities, Satomi Shirai's work investigates the psychological act of creating spaces that merge the tangible, physical place and the intangible, experienced one. The resulting photo and photo-sculpture present skewed, uncanny narratives based on the artist's memories.
The photo series Seminario Sull'infantazia ("Seminar on Childhood") by Simone Bergantini documents old abandoned factories in the suburbs of Italy's largest cities, homes to illegal immigrants, drug addicts, the homeless, and children at play. Instead of representational depictions, Bergantini chooses to let the domestic space and its incongruous trappings tell the story of denied childhood.
Rita MacDonald applies common home improvement materials, wall paint and the plaster-like drywall compound, directly onto wall surfaces to create warped or undulating decorative patterns. Interested in pattern for its relationship to the experience of place and memory, MacDonald constructs optical illusions of pattern moving in space that interact with the architecture of the wall.
Originally trained as a traditional kiln ceramicist in Denmark, Anders Ruhwald appropriates the medium of functional pottery to create off-kilter, inutile ceramic sculptures bearing superficial semblance to otherwise functional objects. Their surfaces are hand-modeled into uneven, globular exteriors, simultaneously suggesting their relegation to the manipulation of human hands, and rendering the sculptures dehumanized furnishings, which can no longer be encountered by the human body.
[Image: Simone Bergantini from the series "Seminario Sull'Infanzia" (2006-07)]
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Schedule
from July 14, 2011 to August 13, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-07-14 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Satomi Shirai, Simone Bergantini, Rita MacDonald, Anders Rhuwald