『designboom』にて東京都現代美術館 個展「ユージーン・スタジオ 新しい海：After the rainbow」が紹介されています。

( 掲載記事より抜粋 )

“artist eugene kangawa on creating wastelands, referencing a space odyssey, and exploring symbiosis”

AFTER THE RAINBOW
the canopy of trees, swaying against the breeze of the cool morning, surround eugene kangawa as he tends to his sculpture at the core of the greenery. the hum of the violin escorts the american-born artist’s contemplation with his art, one of his installations displayed in his first solo exhibition at the museum of contemporary art tokyo (MOT) under EUGENE STUDIO. titled after the rainbow, the exhibition dives into the perspectives, ideas, and philosophies that underlie eugene’s diverse body of work.
‘a word that describes one of the main themes of the exhibition is symbiosis, perhaps slightly different from the way the word is usually used,’ says kangawa during his interview with the museum. ‘I like to think of it as an expression of the state of all things being together, if you will: self and others; differing opinions; what can be accepted and what is hard to accept; the beautiful and the not-so beautiful; people and nature; a moment in time and all of eternity; light and shadow. it is not one thing or another, but each always exists together. it is a symbiosis in that sense.’ ...

本文を読む