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OUTSIDE IN: NISHI TATZU
Japanese installation artist and serial
interventionist Nishi Tatzu likes to
take things out of the gallery. He once
stated, ‘I’m not interested in art
for experts. I want art to come to the
people, to involve them in it, and this
doesn’t happen in the gallery space.’
Indeed his work is rarely displayed in
a traditional white cube space. His
practice – which often takes existing
public sculptures and encasing them in
makeshift domestic settings – attempts
a synthesis of public and private
experience. In 2001, for example, Tatzu
took part of a Claes Oldenburg and
Coosje van Bruggen public sculpture
(a giant concrete ball from the 1977
Pool Balls at Skulptur Projekte Münster)
and built a house around it. Tama (2001)
took what was an otherwise ignored
weatherworn and graffiti-covered public
sculpture and brought it indoors, where
it jostled awkwardly among household
furniture.
When he first arrived in Europe, Tatzu
(who lives in Germany) was struck
by the number of monuments. His work
reinterprets these grandiose and
solemn tributes by forcing them into
small spaces and increasing their IN THE HOOD: THE
visibility through close contact. RUSHOLME PROJECT
For his upcoming show at Mori Art Museum Rashid Rana, See Through, 2006 (installation view,
Manchester Art Gallery), lambda print on vinyl. in Tokyo, though, Tatzu has created his
Manchester’s Rusholme Courtesy the artist own monument rather than play with an
district, nicknamed Curry existing one. A messy hand-drawn clock
Mile and famous since the will decorate the roof of a building
second half of the twentieth visible from the museum, a functionless
century for its thriving Big Ben for the skyline. Laura Allsop
Asian community, will this
summer be the site of two NISHI TATZU, 11 JULY –
major installations, by effect. Taking ‘local heroes’ 24 SEPTEMBER, MORI ART MUSEUM,
artists Subodh Gupta and as his inspiration, Rana’s TOKYO, WWW.MORI.ART.MUSEUM
Rashid Rana. For The Rusholme work will no doubt provide an
Project – initiated by Shisha, aspirational environment for
an agency for South Asian those seeking employment at
contemporary art based in the Jobcentre, a building that
Manchester – Gupta and Rana is, as the project’s publicist
will unveil large-scale works points out, “quite ugly”.
in both private and public His trompe l’oeil works,
spaces. Gupta, originally from tessellations of hundreds of
India, and whose installations images, will well convey the
and sculptures are often multifaceted and changing
composed of stainless steel character of the community,
domestic objects widely used which Rana researched in situ.
in Asian households, has A meditation on Asian identity
created a solid stainless in both the local and global
steel structure for Whitworth context, the project will
Art Gallery, part of the surely provide an interesting
University of Manchester. insight into the changing
Meanwhile Rana, an artist shape of a modern expatriate
from Pakistan, will cover community. Laura Allsop
the front of Rusholme’s
Jobcentre Plus building with THE RUSHOLME PROJECT:
one of his characteristic SUBODH GUPTA, WHITWORTH ART GALLERY, 29 JUNE –
collages composed of smaller 8 SEPTEMBER; RASHID RANA, , 2007, digital print, whiteout, ink.
images to an almost pixelated JOB CENTRE PLUS BUILDING,
WILMSLOW ROAD, 29 JUNE –
30 SEPTEMBER, MANCHESTER,
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