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INHERENT
RESOBOX is pleased to announce its launch of new gallery program named RESO203 with the exhibition INHERENT — A Solo Presentation of Works by Yasue Maetake. mh PROJECT nyc simultaneously presents this inaugural exhibition to support innovative developments to art in collaboration with the artist.
Maetake is known primarily for her sculpture and installations; central to this exhibit, INHERENT will be a series of her new bas-reliefs, which will cover the walls and ceilings of the gallery as compositional elements. Maetake calls this series, “Printed Oxidation on Fiber Relief,” which showcases unusual methods that produce bright, textured wall pieces created from transformed handmade papers by exposing them to metal corrosion, thus producing expressive hues of turquoise and reddish-brown residues. The synergy between the objects and exhibition space direct the viewer’s focus to both the artwork and architecture through emphasizing the artist’s distinctive materials.
Installed on the ceiling and continuing down the walls, one of her pieces consists of a very light steel-frame within layers of the fibers. By purposely using these concrete objects, Maetake expresses a material’s physical presence in flux as it changes from one expression to another in its spatial aspects so that it withstands being captured by the viewer’s gaze. Maetake conjures various associations ranging from natural to industrial imagery and architecture: an implication metaphorically representing the artistic production life-cycle itself, translated into a statement of political and ecological configurations to be contrasted with images of our fast-paced modern life. All of these transient qualities in Maetake’s work suggest that the effects of time on artworks and human creation are explored as vital components of organic, natural processes.
Check out the artist talk event happening Tuesday, November 13, 2018 here.
About RESO203
RESO203 was initiated by RESOBOX that has been a constant station featuring Japanese artifacts by various artists, regardless of nationality, to disseminate the culture and philosophy of Japan. RESO203 was made in order to better nourish its cultural heritage and contemporary art multidisciplinary by active and hands-on artists in a variety of media, as well as introducing a wide range of projects by independent curators.
Special Thanks
mh PROJECT nyc
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