Video: Salty art. Installations from Motoi Yamamoto salt
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
If creative people see beauty even in clothespins, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto (Motoi Yamamoto) uses to create his installations … the most common table salt. Very, very much salt, because his installations sometimes take up an entire room, or even the area of one of the workshops of an abandoned soy sauce factory. For a reason, Motoi Yamamoto chose salt as a material with which he has been working for many years. The fact is that in Japanese culture and mythology, salt plays a very important role, not to mention its role in cooking. In addition, 15 years ago, the artist's younger sister passed away untimely, and our tears are also salty …
In memory of his sister Motoi Yamamoto (Motoi Yamamoto) and created this huge labyrinth-installation of salt. As already mentioned, 15 years have passed, but the artist still continues to create unique salty installations. One of them is called "Sakura Blossom" and depicts Japanese cherry blossom petals scattered on the ground. The author usually includes this installation in his personal exhibition along with the already mentioned "Labyrinth".
In addition to the labyrinth and petals, Motoi Yamamoto creates sculptures out of salt and even manages to make drawings. These and other works of the "salt artist" can be viewed on his website.
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