Takahiro Iwasaki  

The artwork of artist Takahiro Iwasaki consists of small buildings and electrical towers that are excruciatingly small and delicate. The Japanese artist creates sculptures from the unexpected materials like electrical tapes, toothbrush bristles or towels and displays them alongside their source materials.

The artwork of Japanese artist Takahiro Iwasaki may be overlooked if you are not careful.  Not only are his small buildings and electrical towers excruciatingly small and delicate, but they also rest on absurdly mundane objects: rolls of tape, a haphazardly wrinkled towel, or from the bristles of a discarded toothbrush.

Only on close inspection do the small details come into focus, faint hints of urbanization sprouting from disorder.

Some of his pieces are topographical maps that have been carefully cut from thick rolls of gray and blue electrical tape. Many of these objects were on view as part of the Constellations show at Cornerhouse in Manchester back in 2011 and at C24 Gallery last year.

Iwasaki currently has a new collection of much larger works at the 7th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art at GOMA in Queensland, Australia.












SOURCE  Colossal

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