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This official exhibition Booklet by Tsuyoshi Anzai - Chimera Art Award Winner 2014 - provides you with a profound insight into the artists solo exhibition at Chimera Project Gallery, Budapest (Nov. 2014). © Tsuyoshi Anzai
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Origins Originated fromOriginative Originals
Tsuyoshi Anzai Solo ExhibitionChimera-Project, Budapest
November 7.-28. 2014
Chimera-Project presents the Japanese kinetic and video artist and Chimera Art Award
winner, Tsuyoshi Anzai. The goal of the founders of the Chimera Art Award, namely
Chimera-Project Gallery and Works.io, the professional online portfolio platform is to
help emerging artists get visible on an international level and boost their career.
The exhibition is Anzai’s first solo show in Europe and at the same time a great
opportunity to introduce Japanese contemporary art in Hungary. Therefore after the
award-jury’s decision, Chimera-Project initiated a collaboration with the Japanese
Foundation, who enabled the artist to attend the show in person in Budapest, and
furthermore helped to organize a workshop and a presentation that will be held by the
artist. Next to that, the Japanese Foundation put Anzai’s exhibition on his autumn art
program “V4+Japan exchange” what will draw even more attention to the mentioned
events.
In the center of Anzai’s work are constructions and small machines made from everyday
objects. Variating and putting together the pieces is often part of the artwork itself.
However, these machines go beyond the simple human – machine opposition and
they also not resemble robots in science-fiction. They share an ironical and playful
atmosphere but at the same time they question the stability of our conceptions by which
we interpret the world. The exhibition proposes a certain instability also with it’s title –
Origins Originated from Originative Originals – and as the artist puts it, it questions the
originality and validity of things/objects. While constructing machines from different and
non-matching objects, the original one deconstructs itself, loses its former function and a
new, abstract meaning is created.
Machines are the fundamental elements of Anzai’s world. This motive variates in different
levels and one can notice how the machines transform and take an independent
character. Beside the experimental video works and small kinetic structures, there will be
four works on view, which will give further introduction into Anzai’s methods.
The installation, Somewhere in the Ballpark takes place in a post-apocalyptic future
and presents the research of two men. As finding everyday objects from our time, they
are trying to pair them with names, raising the question whether things have stabil, fix
meanings. In the installation Sweet Dreams Anzai tries to capture the atmosphere of
nightmares. He collects personal nightmare stories from different people and after asks
them to draw it, which he further transforms into animation (Hungarian interviews were
collected by Flora Gadó). The interesting part of the Budapest exhibition is that beside
already collected Korean nightmares also Hungarian ones will be recorded and made
“visible”. One can notice the familiar machine constructions in Stop MAKE-ing Machine,
bereaved by their original function. The installation reminds us of a slightly chaotic,
perpetual-motion machine. Finally, Anzai’s latest project called Encounter with the
Doppelganger was created during a workshop at Chimera-Project. The participants of
the workshop were invited by the artist to construct copies of already existing machines
following Anzai’s instructions. By this the workshop will be also a field for researching
originality and seriality.
Introduction
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1. Encounter with Doppelgänger, 2014, Installation
2. Stop MAKE-ing Machine, 2010-11, Website
3. Sweet Dreams, 2013/14, Installation
4. Somewhere in the Ballpark, 2013, Video installation
5. untitled machine works #1, 2014, Mixed media
6. untitled machine works #2, 2014, Mixed media
7-1. Out of Studio, 2013, Video
7-2. 5 Steps 1 Machine, 2013, Video
7-3. Ecstasy of Replicate no.15, 2013, Video
7-4. Neighbor, 2013, Video
Encounter with Doppelgänger2014
Installation
Daily necessities, Motors, Tapes, Instruction, Video, etc.
In this work, I displayed two types of machines which were
made in two different countries with everyday items found
in each country following the same instruction. At first, I built
machines in Japan and drew instructions on how to build
them. Then, at the workshop in Budapest, the participants
interpreted the instructions, went to buy everyday items for
their machines, and built machines according to their own
interpretations.
Stop MAKE-ing Machine2010-11
Video Archive
Website "http://stop-make-ing-machine.net"
The work is the performance of the machines that composed
of daily items and motors impromptu. They are unstable and
easy to break up. I present the machines as coincidences in
this work against repetitive nature and continuousness of
machines.
Sweet Dreams2013/14
Installation
Motors, Food covers, LEDs, woods, etc
In the work, I tries to capture the atmosphere of nightmares. I
collect personal nightmare stories from different people and
after asks them to draw it, which he further transforms into
slide projector. And with these materials, I made the machines
for each stroies.
Somewhere in the Ballpark2013
VIdeo installation
Video, Daily necessities
This video installation takes place in a post-apocalyptic future
and presents the research of two men. As finding everyday
objects from our time, they are trying to pair them with names,
raising the question whether things have stable, fix meanings.
untitled machine works #12014
Mixed Media
Daily necessities, Motor, Tape, etc.
untitled machine works #22014
Mixed Media
Daily necessities, Motor, Tape, etc.
Out of Studio
5 Steps 1 Machine
2013 / Video / 4min
2013 / Video / 4min
Ecstasy of Replicate no.152013 / Video / 4min
Neighbor2013 / Video / 4min
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