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Art News:
Hiraki
Sawa, O, 2009, installation at the Queensland Art
Gallery
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Hiraki Sawa:
O
February
17 - March 26, 2011
Opening: February 17, 2011,
6-8pm
Coming
full circle is movement without displacement. In that time, you simply are, and
all change is in the looking. [UTF-8?]– Hiraki Sawa
James Cohan Gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition by
Japanese-born, London-based artist Hiraki Sawa. The centrepiece of this
exhibition is a video and sound installation entitled O (2009),
originally commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery for The 6th Asia
Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Brisbane, Australia. Presented
across a triptych of large-scale projections, ten small video monitors and five
channels of audio, O abstracts the notion of time by the simultaneous
depiction of interior and exterior spaces, meditations on the moon and the
earth, and suggestions of the present and distant past.
The installation transports the viewer into a dreamlike state in which he or she
is enveloped in an immersive world of sound and image. Ten small monitors show
black and white video of ordinary objects - such as a bell or a cup - spinning
endlessly. Three large projections show a selection of black and white images
from [UTF-8?]Australia’s desert landscape surrounding Alice Springs; an
unspecified ocean view that melts into footage of a flock of birds as they fly
across the desert sky; and lingering shots in muted tones of the interior of an
abandoned house in the south of France brought to life with [UTF-8?]Sawa’s
recurring and signature animations: a ferris wheel, flying birds, a tree with
fluttering leaves and a rising moon. The audio component, created by the group
Organ Octet and edited by Dale Berning, is presented on custom-built speakers
that spin intermittently, sending the clatter and rolling sounds of spinning
objects and the airy tones of miniature organs around the space.
Also on view will be a new single channel video work, in which Sawa explores the
phenomenon of amnesia and the devastation of severe memory loss through a series
of abstract visual sequences. This work is a study for a longer, more narrative
film project that has been commissioned by the London-based organization,
Animate Projects. In addition, Sawa will present a suite of delicate pencil
drawings which illustrate the phases of the moon. Each drawing starts out as a
meticulous rendering of the lunar surface which Sawa then erases, in some cases
nearly completely, to show how the moon appears to us as it waxes and wanes.
Hiraki Sawa is currently participating in The Dissolve at SITE Santa Fe
Eighth International Biennale (June 20, 2010 [UTF-8?]– January 2, 2011), and
in March of 2011 his work will be included in an exhibition of works by Japanese
contemporary artists titled Bye Bye Kitty! at the Japan Society, New
York. His work has been included in major international exhibitions such as
17th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (2010) and the Sea Art
Festival, Busan Biennale, South Korea (2008). [UTF-8?]Sawa’s recent solo
exhibitions include Carrousel, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie and
the Musée du Temps in Besançon, France (2010); Hiraki Sawa, Colby College
Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (2008); and Hako, Chisenhale Gallery,
London, UK (2007). His works are included in important museum collections such
as UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Modern Art Museum of Fort
Worth, TX; the Detroit Institute of Art, MI; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Museo
de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain; and the Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Diego, CA. He lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
For further information, please contact Jane Cohan. To view selected works and
read press articles, please visit the [UTF-8?]artist’s page at James Cohan Gallery
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