'city glow, mountain whisper'
platform art
gloucester road underground station, london
25 july 2006 - 25 january 2007
http:/www.tfl.gov.uk.pfa
background
chiho aoshima, born 1974, tokyo, japan.
she uses computer technology to create detailed and complex images of fantasy worlds.
hybridized creatures are participants in the composition's narrative as well as elements in a decorative scheme.
aoshima is connected with the 'superflat' movement, a term coined by artist takashi murakami. the style is typified by the simple and emphatically two-dimensional forms employed by a generation of young japanese artists. she has taken part in high profile projects and exhibitions and has numerous upcoming
international projects including the artpace residency program in texas, USA. she also has a solo exhibition at moca lyon, in france.
'city glow, mountain whisper'
each of the seventeen platform arches contains part of an elaborate composition. it's a landscape that gradually transforms from day to night and from an urban to rural landscape. the vibrant colors keep the viewers gaze.
the piece shows a timeless world created by contemporary technology. it suggests a utopian vision of the earth in which the past and the future have merged and the boundaries between organic creatures and inanimate things have broken down.
the animal, the plant and the man-made and life is literally breathed into each building and mountain.
I have not been here, not yet...soon this post will be updated with my own pictures. Just a suggestion to whoever is coming over to London: poetic, dreamlike, delicate and imaginative, and at the same time - as barbara says - very urban.
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