Exhibition in Shanghai | Looking Back at the Aftermath: Iwamura To and His "New Jomon".
|Looking Back at the Aftermath: Iwamura To and His "New Jomon".🪧 Event Name:
Iwamura To: Looking Back at the Aftermath
📅 Event Date:
October 25, 2024–December 28, 2024
🕔 Event Time:
Tuesday–Saturday 11:00 AM–7:00 PM
🗺 Exhibition Venue:
Almine Rech Gallery (2F, 27 Huchiu Road, Huangpu District)
🧩 Exhibition Content:
Emerging artist Iwamura To from Kyoto was influenced by his parents, who were also painters, and was exposed to traditional art from a young age.
Since his debut, he has mainly been engaged in ceramics and acrylic painting, believing that ceramics have the potential to become a universal artistic language across cultural boundaries.
In Iwamura To's understanding, the fluidity of space affects and changes the viewer's subjective experience when viewing installation art.
The exploration and balance of distance, time, space, and dynamics are important reasons why his ceramic works are so vivid.
Iwamura To uses large pieces of clay to carve busts with various facial expressions, from shock and surprise to expressionless contemplation. Each ceramic sculpture has neat parallel lines carved on its surface.
Through continuous practice, he created the term "New Jomon" to name his artistic ideas and ceramic works.
These works are characterized by slanted stripes on the clay surface, reminiscent of traditional Japanese Jomon pottery.
This name has now evolved into a unique category in ceramic taxonomy.
"I have an urge to explore new things. Creating is like a continuous adventure, and when I work on clay or coil bearings, I am always looking for unexpected forms that I have never seen before," said Iwamura To.
🚇 Transportation:
Line 2/10 → East Nanjing Road Station → Exit 6 → 🚶♂️500m.
🎫 Ticket Price:
🆓️Free admission.
💌 Reservation Method:
No ☎️ reservation required