France – Villeneuve-d'Ascq
“Ir more all of the art of objects” was the object of Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988), to whom the Museo de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo de Villeneuve d’Asq (Lille Métropole) dedicated a retrospective, from the Barbican Center in London, to the Museo Ludwig de Colonia and to Zentrum Paul Klee in Berna.
Famous for our paper lamps washi These bamboo structures blend traditional Japanese art with more contemporary forms, the lamps Akari produced from 1952 onwards, the antiguo ayudante of the Roman sculptor Constantin Brancusi has already revealed the borders between the art, the design and the sculpture, but also architecture, dance and caligraphy.
“Nunca he upholds the idea that the sculptures are his only sculptures,” said the man who, in 1926, invented theatrical masks for one of the masters of “modern dance,” Michio Ito, and who, for three years, participated in the creation of costumes and decorations for the great core. Martha Graham. “Martha uses them as symbols or gestures. “Eran una extension de su cerpo”.
So, as a guide to "total art", the sculptor-diseñador conceives of his formal investigation free of all natural mimeticism, buscando without descanso "ampliar las posibilidades de la escultura" desarrollando su arte a escala del objeto y del espacio doméstico, pero también del cuerpo en movimiento y of the landscape.
This way, in 1946, during its show Cave of the Heart, Martha Graham sells a lively, moving and metamorfosearse in the fascinating “dress araña” with latin hilos that emerges from a bronze serpent (Spider Dress and Serpent) ...
Until July 2
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