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