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12×5=60
Artist(s): Arata ISOZAKI
Date: 31 Aug 2014 - 12 Jan 2015

The exhibition “12×5=60″ focuses on Arata Isozaki’ s concept of “Thoughts Beyond Architecture"i.

The term “Thoughts Beyond Architecture” used here has two aspects: firstly, the exteriority of architecture that has the ability to concurrently conceive (mannerism) or become concerned with cultural representations of contemporary art, music, moving images, and photography (fields which are contiguous yet irreducible to architecture); secondly, the modern (building) as a dead letter of the previous method of cultural representation mobilized to dismantle and reorganize the theoretical and ideological language of “Architecture.” It is no exaggeration to say that this bilateral construction is the tactic of Arata Isozaki, an artist-architect who has exceeded the occupation as an architect. By focusing on his uncanny ability to transcend disciplines, and interpreting his character metaphorically as a “man of arts and letters”ii, the exhibition visualizes “Thoughts Beyond Architecture,” a conceptual process within Isozaki’ s complex oeuvre that past exhibitions have not adequately addressed.

-Misa Shin Gallery

Annotations:

i. “Thoughts Beyond Architecture” is extracted from “Kenchiku Oyobi Kenchikugai-teki Shikou(Architecture and Thoughts Beyond Architecture)”, a collection of conversations of Arata Isozaki (1976, Kajima Institute Publish ing Co., Ltd.).

ii. In “Interviews with Arata Isozaki in Asia”(2008, Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.), in response to Lee Sang-leem’ s question on how he would like to be remembered by the younger generation, he answered: I would like to be remembered as an architect who practiced architecture and thought about architecture. Also as “Man of art & letter” who expressed his architecture in other areas, like writing, exhibition, and art, in an effort to locate archi tecture firmly at the center of culture.

-Watari-um

Image courtesy of the artist and Watar-ium

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