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SELECTED WORKS BY Nobuko Tsuchiya



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Nobuko Tsuchiya

..."quietly now"...

2003
mixed media

60 x 64 x 28 cm

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


Nobuko Tsuchiya

Table Rabbit

2003
mixed media

160 x 270 x 160 cm

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.


Nobuko Tsuchiya

Sister of Nike

2004
mixed media

160 x 100 x 100 cm

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.


Nobuko Tsuchiya

... with an asparagus pillow ...

2003
mixed media

104.5 x 90 x 42 cm

Formed from spindly make-shift pipes and air ducts, there’s something sinister underlying Nobuko Tsuchiya’s Luddite cutesy-ness.


Nobuko Tsuchiya

Parking Fish Project

2003
mixed media

77 x 36 x 43 cm

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.


Nobuko Tsuchiya

Your Chair

2003
mixed media

50 x 176 x 50 cm

“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."


Nobuko Tsuchiya

They Jumped

2003
mixed media

76 x 97 x 40 cm

Nobuko Tsuchiya "different form of thinking" and quietly dramatic feel for her materials result in works that are at once threatening and beguiling.


Nobuko Tsuchiya

... once upon a time ...

2003
mixed media

74 x 70 x 46 cm

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.



ARTIST INFORMATION




Nobuko Tsuchiya's BIOGRAPHY



1972
Born in Yokohama, Japan

Lives and works in London


SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2005
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

2003
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London


GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2005
This storm is what we call progress, Arnolfini, Bristol

2004
Non Toccare La Donna Bianca, Fondazione Sandretto Rerebaudengo,
Torino castel dell'ovo, Napoli
New Blood, Saatchi Gallery, London
Britannia Works, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre & Renos Xippas Gallery, Athens

2003
50 Biennale di Venezia, Venezia

BIBLIOGRAPHY

'50 Biennale Venedig', Kunstforum International , August - October (ill.)
Martin Herbert, Time Out , 24 September - 1 October
Louisa Buck, 'What's On London', The Art Newspaper, September (ill.)
Gakkam Bijutu , September (ill.)
Bijutu Techo, September (ill.)
Tsutsumi, K., 'Nobuko Tsuchiya', Luca , No.2 (ill.)

 
 

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