EXPLORING THE EXHIBITION

Within the same moment, we were discovering our artist. The juxtaposed world appended through the life of the artist and his/her artwork involved a new layer of position statements that continuously evolved with time and further investigations.

I was researching on Isamu Noguchi. He was born in 1904 in Los Angeles and is the son of the Japanese poet Yone Noguchi and the American writer Leonie Gilmour. Noguchi became Constantin Brancusi’s assistant in Paris in 1927 and had his first solo exhibition in New York.

His life was dramatically affected by the Second World War, with the internment camps for Japanese americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor, where he was voluntarily interned in Poston, Arizona. Later, the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastating to his life.

He returned to Japan and his works shifted towards fundamentally opposed practices and thoughts. He as always tried to take sculpture and arts into a broader realm, with works including the creation of theatre sets, furniture, lighting, and the design of public spaces and gardens. He died in 1988 in New York.

The development of an archive for I.Noguchi was set. An archive differs from the archive as the first one developed a set of ideas expressed in an iteration, rather focusing on its essence than its physical existence into an architecture. An archive has established its positioning within the context: its interstitial posture at a threshold space for the context suppose its morphic character and dodging of the realm being hold inside.

It also reaches toward context with its overhang that invites people to enter the space. The exhibition is organized in a vertical motion where visual relationships are widely used to link the different spaces, defined through ideas relating to the artist’s life, art and work.

University of Ljubljana, 2020

Teacher Paul O Robinson

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