CAROL BOVE

Mariko Mori is widely regarded as one of the most important artists to emerge from Japan in the past fifty years. Her practice, which is founded in the belief of the interconnectedness of all things, explores universal questions at the intersection of the cosmos, life, death, reality, spirituality and technology. Her early work found its roots in Manga and cyber culture, often depicting Mori herself as a cyborg heroine seemingly from an alternate, pop-futuristic reality, navigating contemporary Tokyo. Her work has since expanded beyond that densely-layered, colorful hyper-reality to include a recent fascination with ancient cultures. Among cultures newly explored in Mori’s work are the prehistoric Jomon culture in Japan and Celtic traditions in Europe, investigating a more abstract minimalism and celebrating the enlightening and expansive qualities of technological innovation and its interaction with its surroundings. Employing a diverse range of media including installation, sculpture, performance and works on paper, her practice blurs the lines between sacred reverence and popular culture aesthetics, using references from disparate visual iconographies to create works that conflate the past and future as well as the scientific and spiritual.

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  Anish Kapoor (B. 1954) is one of the most influential sculptors of his generation. He was one of a generation of British-based sculptors who became established in the intenational arena during the 1980s. He is most famous for his public sculptures that are adventurous in form, meaning and construction. His work ranges vastly in scale from huge PVC skins, stretched or deflated; concave or convex mirrors that reflect and distort the viewer whilst incorporating them into the composition; to small pieces of jewellery; rings and pendants which mirror and evoke the overall intention and effects of his larger works. His work plays with ideas of depth and perception an in his small-scale works the effects of illusion are aspowerful as in his larger works. The relationship between man and his environment is key to Kapoor’s work and has led to his collaborations on many architectural projects. For example one of his sculptures from the Sky Mirror 2001 series reflects the sky and the bustle of the Rockefeller Center in New York. Both the   spectator, the environment and the sculpture itself contribute to the overall effect of the work of art. Born in 1954 in Bombay, he has lived […]