Days and Subtleties
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Rooftop Area Artist
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Fiber of the light
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valve
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Artist Information
Takashi Nakajima
1972 Born in Tokyo
1993 Graduated from Kuwasawa Design School
2017 "The beginning of a story lies at the intersection of images and words: From original illustrations in picture books to the great forest of imagination" ART MUSEUM & LIBRARY, OTA (Gunma,Japan)
2017 "Valve" Art Studio Dungeon (Tokyo,Japan)
2017 "Fiber of the light" B&C HALL Warehouse TERRADA (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 "Days and Subtleties" Gallery OUT of PLACE TOKIO (Tokyo,Japan)
2018 "parallèles obliques" Sumiyoshicho Arai bldg (Kanagawa,Japan)
Nakajima creates site-specific and ephemeral installations that offer people a shared spatial experience and thereby help them relate one another while respecting each individuality and different standpoint. Often with transparent or translucent material in spacious arrangement, his work intervenes a site through the reflection, diffusion and shading of light, re-connecting a location and its surrounding anew. Subtle in self-expression and open to others, Nakajima's semi-architectural approach explores a unique realm where his personal imagination is expressed in a spatial and inter-subjective form.
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Takashi Nakajima has taken part in many art projects over the past ten years as a three-dimensional structural artist. In recent years he has created a number of dynamic and delicate pieces in public spaces and white cubes, using transparent stretch films that are as thin as a few microns. With the support material of the four basketball nets that have remained in the rooftop space of 3331 Arts Chiyoda since it was Rensei Junior High School, Nakajima creates a huge installation work. This work is developed in collaboration with Taira Ichikawa, a special illumination artist. The work that emerges from Nakajima’s stretch film and Ichikawa’s illumination transforms the rooftop space into another dimension. Be sure to visit the rooftop of 3331 to experience the scene and the moment.