Word: isozaki
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings Americans a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
...Isozaki's postmodernism was not fueled, like that of many Western architects, by a hankering to reproduce a particular, seductive historical style. The forms and fragments in his work are not cute or ready-made. Instead, he is an antirationalist, a form-follows-intuition designer whose deft play (tricks of perspective, false facades) tends toward the baroque but whose work comes off as anything but fusty. He is drawn to elemental geometries -- cubes, cylinders -- and natural materials, but he seldom leaves them basic or pure. He pulls together polished granite with curved glass with concrete, and makes columns short...
...Isozaki is busy. His latest work includes a proposed sports palace for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona and a full-scale replica in Tokyo of Shakespeare's Globe Theater. With the acclaim for MOCA has come more work in the U.S., including large new wings for the Brooklyn Museum...
After centuries of hewing to tradition, followed by decades of Western | imitation, Japanese designers now feel free to create singular, exciting hybrids of East and West. The new architecture is ambitious and confident, with stars like Arata Isozaki getting international notice. Graphics aspire to art, interiors are rich with allusion, and never before has there been such ferment...