TAB Event - "Positions Towards Infinity: Works by Tatsuo Kawaguchi from the 1970s" Exhibition

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At Utsunomiya Museum of Art
Media: Installation, Art Talk

Tatsuo Kawaguchi is one of Japan's representative postwar artists. Focusing on his well-known work "Relationship -Energy" (1972), which was selected last year as part of the museum collection, this exhibition looks back on his notable works from the 1970s. While Kawaguchi's artistic production has evolved in various ways since the 1980s up until the present, most of the experiments and trials for these modes of expression had already been executed in the works he produced a decade earlier. This exhibition traces Kawaguchi's roots, introducing many of his early works that have almost never been exhibited before. Kawaguchi shows in these works his extraordinary interest in something "invisible", a theme usually overlooked by artists. As its title suggests, "Relationship -Energy" takes as its motif invisible energy. Although the term energy lacks familiarity for most, once it makes contact with media such as a neon tube, electric heater and bell, it transforms itself into light, heat and sound, suddenly becoming ordinary matter. Kawaguchi also strives to ignite the basic creative potentials of the human imagination and its inherent capacity for creation - capabilities that have been squandered or left dormant by time wasted on "looking" and paying excessive attention only to the "visible". By exhibiting earlier works from his career, this exhibition sheds light on Kawaguchi's pioneering spirit that still wields considerable influence in our times.

Lecture: June 15th (Sun) 14:00

[Image: "Relationship -Energy" (1972)]

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