Life recollection

source: betathecreatorsproject

사방에 유리 파편이 널려있어서 그럴지도 모르겠지만, 어쨌든 무슨 이유에선지 Hitoshi Kuriyama의 빛 설치를 볼 때면 신경이 곤두서며 불안한, 편치 않은 느낌이 척추에서 따끔거린다. 부셔진 형광등을 혼란스럽게 엮어 만든 덩어리들을 Kuriyama는 걸고 쌓아올려서 작품에 사고가 나기를 기다린다. 와이어와 전구의 비잔틴식 배열은 계획적 죽음의 덫으로 걸어 들어가는 듯, 섬뜩한 매혹의 빛을 발한다.
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source: thisiscolossal

Hitoshi Kuriyama creates elaborate light installations using complex clusters of shattered fluorescent light bulbs.
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source: glasstressorg

Hitoshi Kuriyama was born in 1979 in the Japanese prefecture of Hyogo. After earning his specialization in Art and Music and with a Ph.D. in Inter Media at the University of Tokyo, he worked as a file clerk at the Japan Aerospace Agency for a period. This experience profoundly influenced his later artistic exploration. His best-known works are probably the traces of light captured on the surface of photographic paper, clouds of color that resemble the true nature behind the way things appear. With Kuriyama, fluorescent lights and LEDs become life forces that animate the darkness of the universe with an irregular, unpredictable rhythm. In the 2009 work 0=1 vacuum, the artist has sought to show an absolute void, a complete nothingness, sowing in the observer the existential doubt of the equation, “to be=not to be?” “0=1?”. Among his many exhibitions, the following must be remembered: the one in 2006 at the Metropolitan Museum in Tokyo, at which he received a special jury award for the Media Art Festival; the one in 2007 at the Hiroshima Museum; and, more recently, the ones at the New York Armory Show and at the Frieze in London. His works have been presented in Tokyo at the International Gallery Beams in 2008 and at the Toto in 2009.