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Where you draw the line/ Chiharu Shiota
Posted on Mar 11, 2012 in artwork | 20 comments
Because I’m drawing again, thoughts about line have really been on my mind. By expanding how we think about line, a greater significance is given to it. An artist, Chiharu Shiota, extends drawing into space, merging the viewer, the drawing, and the overall environment. The physicality of the installations are a wonderful balance to the meditative quality they evoke.
This video is of her recent show in Paris and has her talking and working.
Whether she is connecting objects to space,
Or, by just defining space, the work becomes simultaneously transcendent and visceral.
Given her background with body installation art, I wanted to include these three performance pieces. All of the elements; the artist, the environment, the medium, imply to their meaning and purpose. But more importantly, meanings go begging for new definitions.
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Extraordinary!
thanks, David!
fantastic, beautiful and energizing!
thanks, Ian!
Great blog post, Howard. Really fascinating.
thanks, Carol!
Relevant! Love the density and light sources.
thanks, Joan!
Great original work! Hypnotizing!
thanks, Rikki!
Oh wow. Would have worked right in to some of Deborah Kapoor’s workshop visuals. Just finished a workshop with her in Dallas. Great post Howard.
thanks, Cheryl!
I love the tension on the line..I feel relived at the same time tense..how those beautiful and random connection of webs..
thanks, Mindy!
brilliant! thanks Howard!
thanks, Bonny!
Very beautiful work. Thanks
thanks, Brenda
These artworks are intriguingly labyrinthine and beautiful in equal measure. Each piece reminds me of the Deleuzian notion of “rhizomatic” networks. Quite outstanding!
Thanks, Carol. Welcome!