Yoshiko Yoshino “Reach to Fukushima: Metal Sculpture”
Caelum Gallery
This event has ended.
Yoshiko Yoshino exhibition is a tribute to the victims of the triple disaster in Fukushima in 2011. She herself was born and rased in the center of the affected town.
Yoshino uses mainly stainless steel for her sculptures, and the material usually has a hard, cold clean look. However, Yoshino transform the material and give it a soft, tender and welcome atmosphere by making shape and curves with it. The surface of stainless steel reflects light and shadow, color of environment, and although it has heft, the artist give it a look of weightlessness.
Besides the metal sculpture, Yoshino shows “YU-ART” which means ‘Playfull art’. Usually she uses abstract painting as a base and stick pins into it. She then uses elastic gums to bridge the pins, and these configuration can be changed over time. Thus the base of the paintings become different art works as many times as the combinations are changed. In this show she uses as the base newspaper articles about the recovery progress of Fukushima and the nuclear plant. She has invested in them her deep emotion and strong hope for the welfare of her hometown of Fukushima.
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Schedule
from April 07, 2015 to April 25, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-09 from 18:00 to 20:00