Artist of the day: Artist of the day, June 27: Takahiro Iwasaki, Japanese artist and sculptor

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Artist of the day, June 27: Takahiro Iwasaki, Japanese artist and sculptor

Takahiro Iwasaki (岩崎貴宏 Iwasaki Takahiro) (1975) is a Japanese artist and sculptor. He has exhibited in international settings including the Seoul Museum of Art in South Korea, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Russia, the Queensland Art Gallery in Australia, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France.

Takahiro Iwasaki earned a Bachelor of Arts in Arts in 1998, a Master of Arts in 2001 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 2003. In 2005 he received a Master of Fine Arts from the Edinburgh College of Art. His most well-known series of works is Out of Disorder, which reproduces architectural structures from rendered unusual materials such as hair, dust, threads, towels, and toothbrushes. The series also includes topographical maps sculpted on rolls of duct tape, including a reproduction of the Victoria Peak in Hong Kong.

Another series of works by Iwasaki includes temples sculpted in Japanese cypress, where an inverted version is attached underneath as if it were a reflection on water, and the whole sculpture is suspended in mid-air. His first work of this kind, Reflection Model, was exhibited at the Gallery Natsuka in Tokyo in 2001. Iwasaki completed a new and more complex model, faithfully representing the Byōdō-in near Kyoto. In September of the same year Iwasaki put several microscopic sculptures, including an incomplete Eiffel Tower, in the exhibition space at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France. The works could be magnified using a telescope. In 2014 Iwasaki created two site-specific works at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, in Italy, representing the cupola of the museum and a tower made of hair and dust, again magnified through telescopes.

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