北冥南冥〜Cabinet
(North Dark Sea - South dark Sea Cabinet)
2024, Ceramic vessels with wooden cabinet
Shiro MATSUI
(North Dark Sea - South dark Sea Cabinet)
2024, Ceramic vessels with wooden cabinet
Shiro MATSUI
About the Artwork:
The ‘Message in a Bottle’ project explores our relationship with the cosmos, asking ‘At this moment, where, when, and how do we live in this Universe?’ This series of sculptures translates these philosophical questions into tangible form through furniture pieces that combine traditional designs with handmade painted ceramics and glass vessels.
Just as physicists carefully construct and experiment with mathematical ‘toy models of the Universe’, these miniature constructs present playful new topologies of 3D interconnections in space and time.
The title references two mythological realms: the ‘Dark Sea at the northern end of the world’ (北冥), birthplace of the great fish Kun (鲲), and the ‘southern sea at the southern end of the world’ (南冥, destination of the mighty bird Peng (鹏).” The title of this work references the ‘Dark Sea, at the northern end of the world’.
The ‘Message in a Bottle’ project explores our relationship with the cosmos, asking ‘At this moment, where, when, and how do we live in this Universe?’ This series of sculptures translates these philosophical questions into tangible form through furniture pieces that combine traditional designs with handmade painted ceramics and glass vessels.
Just as physicists carefully construct and experiment with mathematical ‘toy models of the Universe’, these miniature constructs present playful new topologies of 3D interconnections in space and time.
The title references two mythological realms: the ‘Dark Sea at the northern end of the world’ (北冥), birthplace of the great fish Kun (鲲), and the ‘southern sea at the southern end of the world’ (南冥, destination of the mighty bird Peng (鹏).” The title of this work references the ‘Dark Sea, at the northern end of the world’.
MATSUI Shiro:
Japanese artist Shiro Matsui is deeply interested in the relationship between human perception and space-time, and he explores these themes through an engaging, thoughtful and often humorous array of material forms and scales. In his recent collaborative projects with the Japanese space agency, JAXA, Matsui grew a garden on board the international space station, and later asked astronauts capture the vacuum of space itself in a glass bottle and return it to earth. Matsui has exhibited his work extensively, both nationally and internationally, and has works placed in numerous Museum collections including the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, and the Saarbrücken City and the Daimler-Chrysler AG collection.
Japanese artist Shiro Matsui is deeply interested in the relationship between human perception and space-time, and he explores these themes through an engaging, thoughtful and often humorous array of material forms and scales. In his recent collaborative projects with the Japanese space agency, JAXA, Matsui grew a garden on board the international space station, and later asked astronauts capture the vacuum of space itself in a glass bottle and return it to earth. Matsui has exhibited his work extensively, both nationally and internationally, and has works placed in numerous Museum collections including the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, the Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, and the Saarbrücken City and the Daimler-Chrysler AG collection.
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