Yuken Teruya ( 照 屋 勇 賢 Teruya Yuken , born June 18, 1973, Okinawa , Japan ) is a Japanese artist. Lives and works in New York . His ideas often reflect the life and history of Okinawa, his homeland. Works with various materials. Known primarily for art objects cut out of paper.
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| jap. 照 屋 勇 賢 | |
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| Place of Birth | Okinawa |
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Biography
Yuken Teruya received a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Tama University of Art in Tokyo in 1996, and a master's degree from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 2001. [1] The artist has exhibited in galleries such as Josee Bienvenu Gallery ( New York ), Shoshana Wayne Gallery ( Santa Monica ), Murata and Friends Gallery ( Berlin ) and the Royal Ueno Museum of Art ( Tokyo ). His work was also included in the exhibition "Greater New York 2005", organized in New York in 2005 by the Museum of Modern Art [2] . In 2007, his work was exhibited at the Forms of Space exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Creativity
In Russia, Yuken Teruya is known for his project “See - Forest” at the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art , where he presented several objects - paper bags with images of trees cut inside [3] .
Artist about the project:
“From disposable paper bags, a tree is made inside the same bag.
I was wondering how you can turn a piece of paper into something else without painting it and making it part of the collage. It doesn’t matter where the paper bag comes from - from a fast food chain or a luxury boutique, inside it you will still see a beautiful tree.
I simply cut out the contours of branches and leaves from one side of the bag and assemble the tree from the cut pieces inside. Although it seems that a fragile tree rests on the paper wall of the bag, in fact, the tree itself holds the bag and prevents it from falling. When light falls from above, a graceful tree inside a paper bag casting a beautiful shadow shows its strength and reminds that a trace was left of a once living tree.
Each paper tree was made according to a carefully selected pattern. These are trees that grow in my area or where I have traveled. In other words, these are portraits of trees that I have met in my life ” [4] .
Notes
- ↑ Yuken Teruya Studio - About (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment November 9, 2013. Archived November 1, 2013.
- ↑ MoMA PS1: Exhibitions: Greater New York 2005
- ↑ The Concentration of Contemporary Art: A Mini Tour of the Main Project of the Biennale
- ↑ 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art "Rewriting the Worlds", catalog, 2011. - P. 160. - 200 p.