"Homemade Sculptures"

Artist: Taku Hisamura

AI KOWADA GALLERY is pleased to present "Homemade Sculptures", an exhibition showcasing some recent works by Taku Hisamura (b.1977).

"The world as we know it consists of the countless commonly shared understandings that we usually do not take time to confirm its real content.
The practice of having such understandings under the light of our consciousness enables us to experience the state of free spirit unrestricted of the fixed ideas.
Taku Hisamura is one of the artists who engage in this very important task assigned to his profession."
(Fumihiko SUMITOMO, curator)

For this exhibition, Hisamura created an artistic space that mirrors the sensibility of ordinary people living in the contemporary world by using the aesthetic vocabulary developed by the masters of minimal art such as Donald Judd or Richard Serra.

The exhibits includes: the shirts with brand logos which have been altered by the artist's additional embroideries; the chairs and the desks that are made by a simple process of cutting out the form from single material or by combining different material; and the clothes of luxury brands with holes invisibly mended by cloth used for fast fashion outfits. As the show title indicates, these pieces will all be presented as "homemade sculptures" by the artist.
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Taku HISAMURA
Born in Tokyo,1977
BFA from Department of Sculpture, Tama Art University, 2001

Selected exhibitions
2013 "M.A.P." , Tokyo Wonder Site, Berlin.
2012 "Existing there without appearing to be", 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo.
2012 "Walk up | and down | form | being formed", Nadiff Gallery, Tokyo.

Awards
2015 "3331 Arts Chiyoda, BT Prize", 3331 Art Fair.
2011 Dandans, the German Embassy and the Goethe-Institut Tokyo, First Prize