ART
Tadashi Kawamata |
Written 30 January |
Tuesday 24 February, 11:00Galerie Kamel Mennour, 75006 [map]
Tadashi Kawamata was born in 1953 and is an artist who has been receiving international acclaim since the 80s. Combining the disciplines of sculpture, installation art and architecture with socio-historic and geographical research, Kawamata creates public installations, also known as “displacements” which transforms the occupied space and builds a structural connection with the surrounding, often urban, environment.
Kawamata’s Tree huts in particular are a crystallization of Kawamata’s interest in the architecture of shelter and of the insertion of private objects into public spaces as a method of renegotiating the meaning of both.
Playing upon the dialectic of construction and destruction that characterizes the life cycle of public space, Kawamata’s artistic practice is finely attuned to a site’s history, use, and physical characteristics. The exhibition is a chance to see his organic and improvisational style of building work.
