Tokujin Yoshioka ''Crystallize'' Exhibition
As Tokujin Yoshioka growing up he always wanted to bring a cloud from the skies above down to earth. The sky, the clouds the crystals always fascinated him. His current fascination with natural processes and organic structures go to show that this desire never went away. With the‘‘Crystallize’’title , his latest solo exhibition at the MOT / Museum for Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Japan is totally amazing. Includes sculptures and installations which expose the otherwise unseen, delicate morphogenetic processes found in natural processes such as crystal formation. Prisms and spaces interact with light was one of his secret powers to make that exhibition unique.
For Yoshioka, the self-generating, self-organising processes found in natural phenomena can be used as they are, not merely as an aesthetic facade that can be copied superficially. His intention is not to recreate nature, but to expose the innate beauty and creative ‘‘energy’’ in it, by making natural processes part of the art itself. As a result, he literally grows his paintings and sculptures as one would grow plants in a greenhouse through the use of a special liquid which allows natural crystals to grow freely. Gentlemans Diary Magazine is completely obsessed with his work.Take a look of his work below.
For Yoshioka, the self-generating, self-organising processes found in natural phenomena can be used as they are, not merely as an aesthetic facade that can be copied superficially. His intention is not to recreate nature, but to expose the innate beauty and creative ‘‘energy’’ in it, by making natural processes part of the art itself. As a result, he literally grows his paintings and sculptures as one would grow plants in a greenhouse through the use of a special liquid which allows natural crystals to grow freely. Gentlemans Diary Magazine is completely obsessed with his work.Take a look of his work below.