Everything is Everything |
Everything is Everything |
Everything is Everything |
—Everything is Everything
2006
8 channel DVDs
Duration videos: 00:01:31, 00:01:50, 00:01:20, 00:01:22, 00:01:34, 00:01:31, 00:01:19, 00:01:48
Various cinematic sequences are shown on eight screens; brief excerpts show the artist throwing, falling, knocking over, rotating or dropping everyday objects. Although the situations presented initially seem unspectacular—a paint roller leaning on a door, a roll of toilet paper on a ventilator, a handful of straw a rubber boot on the windowsill—the artist, whose hand, arm or foot is usually all that is visible, transforms the objects into the props of a magic trick, a stunt-like interlude or an acrobatic circus number. Like many artists who work with objets trouvés and ready-mades, Koki Tanaka elevates supposedly familiar things to another level and thus changes our view of them. The subtle movements and simple situations seem to occur spontaneously and at the same time appear to have been cleverly staged. This tension between improvisation and staging is also a popular method in circus attractions as well as a way to transfix the viewers immediately.
Biography
* 1975 in Tochigi, Japan
2005 Graduation Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Selected solo exhibitions
—2010
Random Hours, Several Locations, YYZ Artist’s Outlet, Toronto, Canada
—2009
on a day to day basis, Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
Simple Gesture and Temporary Sculpture, AOYAMA MEGURO, Tokyo
—2007
Turning the Lights on, Centre A, Vancouver, Canada
Everything is Everything, Museum Studio, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Setting up and Taking down, Module, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
—2004
Tanaka Koki: Plastic Bags, Beer, Caviar to Pigeons, etc., The Museum of Modern Art, Gunma, Takasaki, Japan
Selected group exhibitions
—2009
Whose exhibition is this?,Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
—2008
Platform Seoul 2008, Samuso, Seoul, Korea
—2007
Spectacle and Situation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
All about Laughter: Humor in Contemporary Art, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
—2006
Pawel Althamer, In the Centre Pompidou, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
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Everything is Everything |
Everything is Everything |
Everything is Everything |