Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba
dal 19/11/2002 al 25/12/2002
Segnalato da
19/11/2002
Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba
Mizuma Art Gallery, Tokyo
Memorial Project Minamata: Neither Either nor Neither-A Love Story. In this exhibition, Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba plans to release his new video work. Without politically prosecuting the unresolved unfortunate problems in modern history, he attempts to convey to the world by sublimating to his art through the viewpoint of a contemporary artist.
Memorial Project Minamata: Neither Either nor Neither-A Love Story
Mizuma Art Gallery is pleased to present Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba Solo
Exhibition.
Last year, at first international art exhibition: Yokohama Triennial
(Japan), Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba attracted a great deal of attention for
his video piece: people riding cyclo (Vietnamese rickshaw taxi) under sea,
was born between a Vietnamese father and a Japanese mother in Tokyo, 1968.
Currently he resides at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Hatsushiba’s works
combines visual beauty and attitude of calm pursuit to Vietnamese social
problems that continues to capture the heart of many people in the world.
In this exhibition, Jun Nuguyen-Hatsushiba plans to release his new video
work. Without politically prosecuting the unresolved unfortunate problems
in modern history, he attempts to convey to the world by sublimating to
his art through the viewpoint of a contemporary artist. This year he
worked on a project, which overlaps with the scars left from the Vietnam
War and the post war tragedy, which occurred in Minamata Japan. With the
corporation of Minamata prefecture and Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto,
the shooting took place at the local sea. This video is a site-specific
piece made in hope of not to repeat these tragedies in history. The
serious effect made by orange agents (a code name for defoliant) sprayed
by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War adds depth to this video.
Also, for rapidly developing countries such as Vietnam and China, Minamata
disease (a type of poisoning caused by industrial mercury pollution) is
manifesting as a fervent pollution disease and for Hatsushiba who
currently reside in Vietnam, it is a very realistic problem that cannot be
considered as other people’s affairs. This work carries its role as a
memorial piece; it continues to tell of these unresolved problems to
people in order not to forget. This work encourages the audience to become
pilgrims and to repeat their pilgrimage.
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