Tadashi Kawamata

33 years after his site-specific installation at the Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, which had to be removed after only one week, Tadashi Kawamata has been called to intervene again.

Art Front Gallery in Tokyo presents a solo exhibition of Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata after his first exhibition at the same gallery 33 years before, where he showed the exhibition “Under Construction”.

Tadashi Kawamata, “Under Construction”, Hillside Terrace, Tokyo, 1984

Back in 1984, Tadashi Kawamata worked on a large-scale installation using lumbers at the Hillside Terrace in Daikanyama, Shibuya, Tokyo. With the opportunity given by the renovation of the building itself, the project was meant to expand to the whole building complex. Unfortunately the project had to be removed in a week by the objections from the shops nearby.

Tadashi Kawamata, “(Under Construction) Again”, Hillside Terrace, drawing, 2017

“(Under Construction) Again” started as some sort of ‘revenge’ exhibition of the lost Daikanyma installation. The artist chose the same building where he worked in 1984, in an update and research on how art, the city and the specificity of the site can merge again today, since the past 30 years really changed the city environment in Daikanyama. Kawamata came up with a plan to work on a rooftop plan for the Hillside Terrace, which can be viewed from a pedestrian walking bridge and can be used as the city’s new viewpoint.

18 August – 24 September 2017
Tadashi Kawamata
(Under Construction) Again
Art Front Gallery
Hillside Terrace A, 29-18
Tokyo

Tadashi Kawamata

33 years after his site-specific installation at the Art Front Gallery in Tokyo, which had to be removed after only one week, Tadashi Kawamata has been called to intervene again.

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