Current Exhibition

Yuken Teruya

SELECTED WORKS BY Yuken Teruya

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

12.7 x 17.8 x 28 cm

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

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.

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Source: www.murataandfriends.de