Nobuko Tsuchiya
..."quietly now"...
2003
mixed media
60 x 64 x 28 cm |
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Nobuko Tsuchiya’s assemblages are primitive inventions. Antennae, rags, plastic tubing, and an old pair of shoes stand in for the workings of hi-tech equipment, their functions as obscure as some of the objects which compose them.
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
Table Rabbit
2003
mixed media
160 x 270 x 160 cm |
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It’s this design element of Nobuko Tsuchiya’s work which is most alluring. Each sculpture revels in its impoverished minimalism, almost zen-like its poetic accuracy, while at the same time alluding to an ancient and un-evolved Japanese Pop.
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
Sister of Nike
2004
mixed media
160 x 100 x 100 cm |
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Sister of Nike could be a satellite dish, Your Chair an atomically fuelled cartoon prank, and Table Rabbit has something just a little too Hello Kitty™ about it.
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
...with an asparagus pillow...
2003
mixed media
104.5 x 90 x 42 cm |
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Formed from spindly make-shift pipes and air ducts, there’s something sinister underlying Nobuko Tsuchiya’s Luddite cutesy-ness.
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
Parking Fish Project
2003
mixed media
77 x 36 x 43 cm |
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Haywire tubes feeding to and from dishes of mysterious liquid, ‘electronic’ connections held together with wooden clothes pegs, and vials suspended with bits of string: there’s an overwhelming possibility that her experiments might explode at any moment.
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
Your Chair
2003
mixed media
50 x 176 x 50 cm |
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“Not everything is as it appears in my work, not everything is done on purpose. My decisions are made by using what you could call a different form of thinking, and are made to operate between harmony and discord, control and the lack of it. I always try to develop the conversation between the things in my work and myself. Maybe this sounds idiotic, but it is my honest feeling."
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
...they jumped...
2003
mixed media
76 x 97 x 40 cm |
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Nobuko Tsuchiya "different form of thinking" and quietly dramatic feel for her materials result in works that are at once threatening and beguiling.
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Nobuko Tsuchiya
...once upon a time...
2003
mixed media
74 x 70 x 46 cm |
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Each sculpture revels in its impoverished minimalism, almost zen-like its poetic accuracy, while at the same time alluding to an ancient and un-evolved Japanese
Pop. |