Kazuko Miyamoto, Woman in Snow, 1998, archival inkjet print from original slide, 25 x 38 cm, printed 2009
Black Poppy, 1979/2009, hand-dyed wool and nails, 280 x 280 x 290 cm. Installation view, EXILE Berlin
Black Poppy, 1979, Installation view, A.I.R. Gallery, 1978
Kazuko Miyamoto, Untitled, 1973, string construction drawing, pen on paper, 59 x 47 cm
Kazuko Miyamoto, Man in Red Kimono, 1985-86, unique photocopy on brown paper, 21.6 x 27.9 cm
Kazuko Miyamoto, Manja and Kazuko in the loft on Chrystie Street, 1988, unique photocopy of black and white photograph on brown paper, 43.2 x 27.9 cm
Untitled, 1972, String construction drawing, color pencil on velum, 48 x 61 cm
Untitled, 1972, String construction drawing, color pencil on velum, 48 x 61 cm
Rope. ca 1983, unique photocopy of original sculpture, 43.2 x 27.9 cm
Kazuko Miyamoto, Wishing for water, paper and wood, installation view, EXILE, 2009
Kazuko Miyamoto, Watersnake, 2009, paper and wood, 10 x 140 x 130 cm
Kazuko Miyamoto, Book of Holes, 1974, two different kinds of paper with holes punched through grid, 51 x 33 cm
Kazuko Miyamoto, Book of Holes (detail), 1974, two different kinds of paper with holes punched through grid, 51 x 33 cm
Kazuko Miyamoto (born 1942) left Japan for New York in 1964. The exhibition String and Thread begins with a particular period in the 1970’s when Miyamoto created a series of ephemeral constructions using only nails and string. Based on existing drawings and vintage photographs, Miyamoto will install Black Poppy, 1978. Further the artist will interpret, and for the first time, install Untitled, 1973 from the eponymous drawing.
Central to her work has always been the notion of the line as a link between two points. In Miyamoto’s artistic career this line has evolved from being part of a geometric grid towards a more organically shaped object. In recent years, Miyamoto explored elements of dance and performance based on ideas of improvisational music. String And Thread will show Miyamoto’s creative process through the decades and, with the inclusion of Wall Drawing 815, pay tribute and homage to Sol LeWitt, who she met in 1968 and with whom she shared a great affinity and artistic discourse.
In 1974, Miyamoto became a member of A.I.R. Gallery, founded in 1972 as the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists. Here, she worked and exhibited together with artists such as Nancy Spero, Zarina Hashmi, and Ana Mendieta. In 1986 she established Gallery Onetwentyeight, the Lower East Side’s longest continuously running alternative art space.
Miyamoto has participated in countless national and international exhibitions in the past 40 years. To name a few: 55 Mercer Gallery, New York; Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Italy; Lodz Biennale, Poland; Neue Galerie Linz, Austria and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. In 2007 Miyamoto was selected for the Artist in Residence Program at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. Her work is included in a wide selection of important public and private collections such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York and The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.
Starting on March 30th Miyamoto will use EXILE to install some old, as well as some new works. The exhibition will open to the public on April 18th. Many works in the exhibition have not been shown in public since their original construction.
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