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Yuko NEMOTO
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Published: October 11 2009

(2009); 400×500×300mm, courtesy of the artist and INAX GALERÌA CERÀMICA copy right(c) Yuko NEMOTO

The first solo exhibition of Yuko Nemoto (b. 1984) in Tokyo. Nemoto produces an installation work in which animals in the imagination made from ceramic make an eerie, humorous, and peculiar scenery.

Last Updated on October 07 2009
 

Editor's Note by Satoshi KOGANEZAWA


Nemoto’s creations which are displayed using a large space - from the floor of the exhibition room to the reception desk where visitors are requested to sign their names - give viewers a really intense impression. I am not sure if her works can be called animals, but their appearances are still animal-like though their bodies are deformed in part unnaturally. For example, one statue looks like a dog with its strangely long limbs. Another creation, the form of which is similar to that of a rabbit has the hind legs fixed with each other. In addition, the surface of some works is dimpling, and some other work has a hole in its mouth. Her creations were made effectively using a hard image of pottery, which contributes to evoking for us an exceptional image of her works. Indeed, at a glance, these creatures seem to be humorous, but the more we see them, the more they give us a creepy impression. They remind me of Bishin Jumonji’s recent “FACES” series, in which human faces are deformed, Francis Bacon’s paintings in which whole faces or bodies looked squashed, or, looking back on more ancient works, the “Quattro Stagioni (Four Seasons)” series, which were made by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, and Kuniyoshi Utagawa’s Yose-e (illusionism). Creations in which ordinarily-familiar things are deformed may give us a much more intense impression than those which were created based on completely new ideas. (Translated by Nozomi Nakayama)


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