Everything Comes in Waves, installation view at La Scatola Gallery London ©Kentaro Yamada
Exhibition: Everything Comes in Waves by Kentaro Yamada
- 6 June - 26 July 2019
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- Daiwa Foundation Japan House, 13 - 14 Cornwall Terrace, London NW1 4QP. Nearest tube: Baker Street
- http://dajf.org.uk/exhibitions/everything-comes-in-waves-by-kentaro-yamada
- 020 7486 4348
- events@dajf.org.uk
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The Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation is delighted to introduce the London-based Japanese artist Kentaro Yamada to the UK public. Everything comes in waves is his first solo exhibition in London.
Yamada is interested in the encounter between material history and humankind’s subjectivity. As subjective and creative beings, we have been trying intuitively to make meanings out of our natural surroundings for millions of years.
Yamada creates poetic situations that allow viewers to experience encounters of human life and material history. The artist reminds us that values born out of human history provide a partical view of the world. He seeks to place this story within broader physical contexts, exploring different scales from the hand-held to the cosmic, or from the universal to the instantaneous.
In this exhibition, Yamada presents a combination of new and old works, which will include light installations, dyeline prints that he created in 2011 after the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, and a series of sculptural objects as a poetic installation, creating a space to experience encounters of human creativity and materials, and the two coming together as one, as part of a larger Life.
This exhibition is curated by Francesca von Zedtwitz-Arnim.
About the contributors
Kentaro Yamada
Kentaro Yamada (b.1978) completed an MFA at The School of Art Institute of Chicago and Goldsmiths with Distinction. He has been exhibiting internationally and recent exhibitions include: Perfume Shop, The Ryder Projects (2019), Common Third, Copperfield (2018); Sound of Scent, Victoria and Albert Museum (2017); before breakfast we talked about the furthest possible point before it all disappeared, Tenderpixel, London UK (2014); b.d., MARS!, Munich, Germany (2014); All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: From Interactive To Interpassive, Gallery Momo, Tokyo, Japan (2013).
Related events:
PRIVATE VIEW: 6 June 2019
Private View: Everything Comes in Waves by Kentaro Yamada
The Private View is a chance to have a first look at Kentaro Yamada’s exhibition ‘Everything Comes in Waves’. Yamada creates poetic installations and structures that allow viewers to experience encounters of human life and material history. In this exhibition, Yamada presents a combination of new and old works, which will include light installations, dyeline prints and a series of sculptural objects as a poetic installation, creating a space to experience encounters of human creativity and materials, and the two coming together as one, as part of a larger Life in cosmic space and time. This exhibition is curated by Francesca von Zedtwitz-Arnim.
ARTIST TALK: 4 July 2019
Artist talk: Kentaro Yamada in conversation with Mark Rappolt
The artist Kentaro Yamada will be discussing his work and exhibition Everything Comes in Waves with Mark Rappolt, the Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview and ArtReview Asia. Yamada creates poetic installations and structures that allow viewers to experience encounters of human life and material history. In this exhibition, Yamada presents a combination of new and old works, which will include light installations, dyeline prints and a series of sculptural objects as a poetic installation, creating a space to experience encounters of human creativity and materials, and the two coming together as one, as part of a larger Life in cosmic space and time.
