Video: People and animals made of metal wire. The crumbling sculptures of Tomohiro Inaba
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Considering the abstract or surreal artwork of the artists and designers we write about on Culturology.ru, many readers are of the opinion that the authors of these works are mentally ill, and that is why the plots of their paintings or installations are so dark, eerie and strange. But in fact, if the authors were crazy, they would not create at all like that. And how, I tried to imagine a Japanese sculptor Tomohiro Inaba in a series of their non-standard metal wire sculptures … Everyone knows that a mentally unhealthy person, and even more so a creative person, has enlightenment in his life, when he behaves like an ordinary, normal person. Then he takes up a brush, or material for a sculpture or installation, and begins to create. And while this state lasts, the work of the master also looks quite normal - understandable, adequate, calm. But as soon as madness takes over …
That is why the sculptures of Tomohiro Inaba at first have clear boundaries and clear outlines, the skull cannot be confused with the globe, the leg with a golf club, and the fawn with a vacuum cleaner. But later they begin to literally fall apart before our eyes, turning from a solid object into small scattered pieces, scattering to the sides. Apparently, this is how an artist, possessed by madness, loses thought, idea, inspiration, and is overwhelmed with despair …
Metal is hardness and stability, the bends of a steel wire are the variability of lines, plots, thoughts. These sculptures are unusual and incomprehensible, but they still attract people's attention. This is how it happens with crazy pictures of unbalanced authors. However, Tomohiro Inaba also has more adequate work. You can see them on his personal website.
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