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SELECTED WORKS BY Yuken Teruya



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Yuken Teruya

Yuken Teruya Golden Arch Parkway McDonald's (brown)

2005
paper, glue

8.3 x 12.7 x 24.2 cm


Yuken Teruya

Yuken Teruya Golden Arch Parkway McDonald's (Japanese)

2005
paper, glue

9 x 15.3 x 26.5 cm


Yuken Teruya

Golden Arch Parkway McDonalds (Red Yellow)

2005

paper, glue


Yuken Teruya

Golden Arch Parkway McDonalds (Yellow)

2005
paper, glue

12.7 x 17.8 x 28 cm


Yuken Teruya

Golden Arch Parkway McDonald's (blue tree)

2005
paper, glue

12.7 x 17.7 x 28 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Berluti

2005
oil on canvas

10 x 17.5 x 22.5 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Chandon

2005
paper, glue

9 x 13 x 44.5 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH - Christian Dior

2005
paper, glue

8 x 15 x 19 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Givenchy

2005
paper, glue

10 x 20 x 18 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Hennessy

2005
paper, glue

10 x 10 x 37 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Le Bon Marche

2005
paper, glue

10 x 19.5 x 22.5 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Louis Vuitton

2005
paper, glue

14.5 x 40 x 33.5 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Marc Jacobs

2005
paper, glue

15 x 20 x 30.3 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Pucci

2005
paper, glue

9 x 23 x 16.5 cm


Yuken Teruya

LVMH � Sephora

2005
paper, glue

5 x 15 x 23 cm



ARTIST INFORMATION




ARTICLES



Yuken Teruya - Notice Forest

For Notice Forest, Yuken Teruya creates enchanting dioramas within products made from paper such as a take-out bag or the cardboard tube inside a toilet paper role. Carving detailed, miniature trees in each, Teruya makes fragile, magical sculptures about nature, craft, and consumerism.
Yuken Teruya is adept at transforming objects using very modest, intimately-scaled gestures. In Notice Forest, the artist subtly draws our attention to the effects of consumerism and globalism -- alluding to the depletion of fragile natural resources, the disappearance of cultural traditions and identities, and the distribution of wealth in the new world order. Working with discarded paper bags from takeout joints such as McDonald's and Krispy Kreme, commercial gift bags and post office packages, Teruya creates delicately rendered shadowboxes in which the sculptural form cut out from the container is shaped by the container itself. Using photography as the starting point, Teruya photographs trees he encounters in his daily life and then painstakingly recreates the form of the individual trees as paper cutouts that are suspended inside the bags. Light filters down through the holes to illuminate the tiny tree within each bag's miniature interior landscape in what the Teruya describes as his attempt to return a spent consumer product back to the forest. Read the entire article here
Source:www.diverseworks.org
"You-I, You-I" by Yuken Teruya
Yuken Teruya was born 1973 in Okinawa and is presently working in New York. His homeland lies in the south of Japan and is made up of many small islands. A general map of Japan usually doesnユt even show the Okinawa island group. The district is part of the subtropical zone and accounts for the early flourishing of a light-hearted and lively culture, different from that found on Japanユs main islands. What has made the place so famous is the tragedy of Okinawaユs more recent history, the havoc wreaked by the end of the Second World War.

The work "You-I, You-I" by Yuken Teruya seems, at first glance, to be an original and traditional kimono from Okinawa, a メbingataモ. But a closer look at the kimonoユs pattern reveals military motifs such as parachutists and military planes. After Okinawa was returned to Japan, the American military bases were kept in place and spread over 20% of the main island.

Read the entire article here
Source: www.murataandfriends.de
 


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